AC9HS6S06 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 planning a project, campaign or enterprise around an identified challenge with specification of the sequence of tasks and activities, responsibilities and deadlines
• 2 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
• 3 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
• 4 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
• 5 identifying the possible social, cultural, economic and environmental effects of consumer or financial choices and developing strategies to minimise negative effects

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