Humanities and social sciences / Year 4 / Inquiry and skills / Researching

Curriculum content descriptions

Sequence information about people’s lives and events (ACHASSI076)

Elaborations
  • creating a timeline by accurately placing information about key events or people in chronological order and explaining the sequence
  • using graphic organisers to show the sequential stages of a process (for example, a flowchart that shows the stages of local government decision-making; a consequence wheel that shows causes and effects; seasonal charts such as an Aboriginal representation describing environmental evidence)
  • recounting and sequencing events associated with a particular history (for example, developing an annotated map to describe the sea route of the First Fleet and the timing of its passage)
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Chronological order,  Historical periods

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