Humanities and social sciences / Year 6 / Inquiry and skills / Communicating

Version 8

Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority

Curriculum content descriptions

Present ideas, findings, viewpoints and conclusions in a range of texts and modes that incorporate source materials, digital and non-digital representations and discipline-specific terms and conventions (ACHASSI133)

Elaborations

composing information and expository texts, supported by evidence, to describe conclusions from their economic, civic, historical and geographical inquiries
developing persuasive texts such as arguments for a debate, an essay or an opinion piece, citing sources to justify reasoning
creating narrative accounts and recounts (for example, a digital multimedia story that records migrant experiences) based on information identified from a range of sources and referring to real characters and events
describing the relative location of places and their features in Australia and in selected countries of the Asia region, when investigating and making connections
selecting and applying appropriate media and strategies to suit and enhance their communication, including the use of graphs, tables, timelines, photographs and pictures, in digital and non-digital modes
using accurate and subject-appropriate terms, for example, historical terms (such as ‘nation’, ‘democracy’, ‘federation’, ‘empire’, ‘immigration’, ‘deportation’, ‘suffrage’, ‘enfranchisement’, ‘heritage’, ‘diversity’, ‘contribution’, ‘achievement’, ‘significance’, ‘development’, ‘rural’, ‘urban’, ‘bias’, ‘stereotype’, ‘perspective’), geographical terms (such as ‘relative location’, ‘scale’, ‘cultural diversity’, ‘inequality’, ‘interconnections’), civics and citizenship terms (such as ‘Westminster system’, ‘courts’, ‘monarchy’ and ‘three levels of government’) and economics and business terms (such as ‘opportunity cost’, ‘trade-offs’, ‘industry sectors’)

General capabilities

Literacy
Critical and creative thinking
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability

ScOT terms

Oral presentations, Creating texts

Refine by resource type

Refine by year level

Refine by learning area

Refine by topic

Related topic

Sort:

Year 6 history assessment - Australia as a nation: a migration story

TLF-IDM014415

This is an assessment package that uses the Year 6 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 'Australia as a Nation'. Students develop and deliver a multimodal presentation ...

View details View resource