History / Year 9 / Historical Skills / Historical questions and research

Curriculum content descriptions

Identify and locate relevant sources, using ICT and other methods (ACHHS168)

Elaborations
  • locating historical sources from archives, museums and online collections
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • ICT capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
ScOT terms

Historical sources,  Information retrieval

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