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Humanities and social sciences / Year 7 / Inquiry and skills / Analysing
Version 8
Curriculum content descriptions
Examine primary sources and secondary sources to determine their origin, purpose and reliability (ACHASSI156)
Elaborations
- considering relevance and validity when choosing sources and gathering data and information about historical, geographical, social, economic and business issues or events (for example, the relevance of documents written at the time of an event; the validity of personal observations made during fieldwork)
- differentiating between primary sources in history (those from the time of the event/person/site being investigated) and secondary sources (those that represent later interpretations)
- comparing the different types of primary sources appropriate to history, geography, civics and citizenship, and economics and business, and explaining reasons for the differences
- identifying who in a source is conveying information about a past or present event and suggesting whose voice may be absent (for example, women, children, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples, slaves, religious leaders)
- using a range of methods to determine the origin, purpose and reliability of different sources, such as determining when the source was written, why it was written and by whom
- discussing the difficulties in identifying the origin and purpose of some sources (for example, the Kimberley Bradshaw paintings)
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Authenticity (Texts), Historical sources