History / Year 8 / Historical Skills / Analysis and use of sources

Curriculum content descriptions

Locate, compare, select and use information from a range of sources as evidence (ACHHS153)

Elaborations
  • creating categories to organise the information obtained from sources
  • designing a table to list sources and the aspects of the past about which they provide information (for example, social structure, economy, governance)
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Historical sources,  Information retrieval,  Evidence

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