Humanities and social sciences / Year 2 / Knowledge and Understanding / History

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Curriculum content descriptions

The history of a significant person, building, site and/or part of the natural environment in the local community and what it reveals about the past (ACHASSK044)

Elaborations

using the internet, newspapers, community information guides and local knowledge to identify and list the people and places promoted as being of historic interest in the local community
suggesting reasons for the location of a local landmark (for example, community building, landmark or war memorial) before searching for resources that provide an explanation
investigating the history of a chosen person, building, site or landmark in the local community using sources (for example, books, newspapers, oral histories, audiovisual material, digital sources, letters, photographs) and relating a story which these reveal about the past

General capabilities

Critical and creative thinking
Intercultural understanding

ScOT terms

Local history, Heritage, Biographies, Heritage buildings

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TLF-IDM014412

This is an assessment package that uses the Year 2 Australian Curriculum history achievement standard to gather evidence about how well students have demonstrated what they know, what they understand and what they can do in relation to the topic 'The Past in the Present'. Children compare sources from the past and the present ...

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