AC9HS6S03 Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences

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.

evaluate information and data in a range of formats to identify and describe patterns and trends, or to infer relationships

Elaborations

• 1 examining sources to identify the causes, effects and significance of past events, developments and achievements in bringing about change; for example, the causes, effects and significance of the struggles for legal rights such as the Wave Hill walk-off and the Wik decision, and health and migration policies
• 2 using graphic organisers, maps and concept maps to identify patterns, such as settlement in regional agricultural areas, trends (for example, changes in Australian immigration statistics) and cause–effect relationships (for example, relationships between war and the movement of refugees), and the effects of consumer decisions on the individual, the broader community and on environmental sustainability
• 3 evaluating attitudes and actions of the past that now seem strange and unacceptable, and imagining what aspects of current society may be viewed in this way in the future
• 4 proposing reasons why socially sustainable practices such as negotiation, arbitration, reconciliation and cultural mediation resolve issues peacefully

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