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AC9HS6S06: Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences Content Descriptor – Concluding and decision-making
AC9HS6S06 Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HS6S06 – Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences: Concluding and decision-making

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Skills
Substrand
Concluding and decision-making

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

propose actions or responses to issues or challenges and use criteria to assess the possible effects

Elaborations

  • • planning a project, campaign or enterprise around an identified challenge with specification of the sequence of tasks and activities, responsibilities and deadlines
  • • brainstorming solutions to an issue that is significant to a group, collecting evidence to build a case for action that takes account of alternative views, minimises risks and mitigates any negative outcomes, and using negotiation to reach consensus on a preferred approach to resolving the issue
  • • relating the decisions made by individuals and organisations to criteria used to evaluate options; for example, the criteria for Australian of the Year, for the award of the Order of Australia, for the selection of a school captain
  • • determining a preferred option for action by identifying the advantages and disadvantages of different proposals, surveying people’s views and opinions, analysing the data, and debating and voting on alternatives
  • • identifying the possible social, cultural, economic and environmental effects of consumer or financial choices and developing strategies to minimise negative effects

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.