AC9HS6S02 Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor locate, collect and organise information and data from primary and secondary sources in a range of formats

Elaborations

• • Elaboration determining the most appropriate range of methods to find information, including digital tools, such as personal observation, interviews and surveys, internet searches, census data, and primary and secondary sources, and using excursions and field trips; for example, a study trip to wetlands, or a visit to a war memorial, a cultural site, an Asian food festival, a courthouse, a town hall, a not-for-profit enterprise or a bank
• • Elaboration identifying key words to search for relevant information when using search tools, such as internet search engines and library catalogues and indexes, and recognising that internet domain names ‘com’, ‘edu’ and ‘gov’ indicate the provenance of a source
• • Elaboration surveying businesses in the local area to find out what influences their choices concerning the way they provide goods and services
• • Elaboration creating maps, using spatial technologies and cartographic conventions as appropriate, including border, source, scale, legend, title and north point, to show information and data such as location; for example, a large-scale map to show the location of places and their features in Australia and countries of Asia; a flow map or small-scale map to show the connections Australia has with Asian countries such as shipping or migration
• • Elaboration developing flow charts to show steps in a sequence; for example, the flow of goods and services, the passage of a bill through parliament, the chain of events leading to the Formal Apology to the Stolen Generations, and timelines to show the chronological sequence of key events, ideas, movements and lives