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AC9HS6S07: Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences Content Descriptor – Communicating
AC9HS6S07 Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HS6S07 – Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences: Communicating

Strand
Skills
Substrand
Communicating

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

present descriptions and explanations, drawing ideas, findings and viewpoints from sources, and using relevant terms and conventions

Elaborations

  • • composing informative and persuasive texts, supported by evidence, to describe and explain conclusions from their economic, civic, historical and geographical inquiries
  • • selecting and referencing findings and viewpoints from sources and visual materials such as journals, diaries, graphs, tables, timelines, photographs and pictures, in descriptions and explanations

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.