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Humanities and social sciences / Year 5 / Inquiry and skills / Analysing
Curriculum content descriptions
Examine primary sources and secondary sources to determine their origin and purpose (ACHASSI098)
Elaborations
- inferring the nature, purpose and origin of artefacts to determine if they have evidence to offer an investigation of a time, place or process
- identifying stereotypes and over-generalisations relating to age, gender, ethnicity, ability, religion and/or politics presented in sources and media of the past (for example, a newspaper caricature of a colonial era Chinese goldfield worker) and in sources and media of the present (for example, social media opinions about a mining development)
- identifying the purpose and usefulness of information gained from primary and secondary sources (for example, checking publication details)
- analysing texts relating to a school, club or government election (for example, speeches, advertisements, campaign materials, symbols, how to vote cards, result records) to determine who created them and their purpose
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Historical sources, Artefacts