Humanities and social sciences / Year 5 / Inquiry and skills / Researching

Curriculum content descriptions

Sequence information about people’s lives, events, developments and phenomena using a variety of methods including timelines (ACHASSI097)

Elaborations
  • compiling an annotated timeline to show the key stages of a development (for example, significant events in the development of their community, their region or state)
  • creating flowcharts that show the stages of a process (for example, steps in an electoral process such as a class vote or a local council election; the sequence of safety procedures that can be used to mitigate the effects of bushfire or flood, the sequence of actions in a recycling system)
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Chronological order,  Historical periods

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