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Civics and citizenship / Year 10 / Civics and Citizenship Skills / Questioning and research

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Curriculum content descriptions

Identify, gather and sort information and ideas from a range of sources and reference as appropriate (ACHCS096)

Elaborations
  • conducting an opinion poll using information technologies and analysing the results
  • referencing a range of sources using an appropriate referencing system
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Referencing,  Information literacy

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