AC9HS5S07 Year 5 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 Humanities and Social Sciences provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

present descriptions and explanations, drawing ideas, findings and viewpoints from sources, and using relevant terms and conventions

Elaborations

• 1 selecting and referencing ideas and viewpoints from letters, graphs, tables, timelines, photographs and pictures, in descriptions and explanations
• 2 using accurate and subject-appropriate terms; for example, historical terms such as “colonial”, “the gold era”, “migration” and “penal”; geographic terms such as “characteristics”, “environmental”, “human”, “ecosystems”, “sustainable”, “settlement” and “management”; civics terms such as “electoral process”, “democracy”, “shared beliefs”; and economic terms such as “scarcity”, “choices”, “resources”, and “needs and wants”

Related Achievement Standards