AC9HS6S02 Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HS6S02 – Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences: Questioning and researching

Strand

Skills

Substrand

Questioning and researching

This Content Descriptor from Year 6 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.

Content Descriptor

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

Elaborations

• 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
• 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
• surveying businesses in the local area to find out what influences their choices concerning the way they provide goods and services
• 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
• 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

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 6 ASHASHASY6

Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 6, students explain the roles of significant people, events and ideas that led to Australian Federation, democracy and citizenship. They explain the causes and effects of migration to Australia since Federation. They explain the geographical diversity of places and the effects of interconnections with other countries. Students explain the key institutions, roles and responsibilities of Australia’s levels of government, and democratic values and beliefs. They explain influences on consumers and strategies for informed consumer and financial choices. Students develop questions, and locate, collect and organise information and data from a range of primary and secondary sources. They evaluate sources to determine origin, purpose and perspectives. Students evaluate a range of information and data formats to identify and describe patterns, trends or inferred relationships. They evaluate evidence to draw conclusions. Students propose actions or responses and use criteria to assess the possible effects. Students select and organise ideas and findings from sources, and use a range of relevant terms and conventions, to present descriptions and explanations.