Civics and Citizenship 7-10 / Year 10 / Skills / Questioning and researching

Curriculum content descriptions

develop and modify questions to investigate Australia’s political and legal systems, and contemporary civic issues (AC9HC10S01)

Elaborations
  • developing a range of sub-questions connected to the over-arching question and using these to modify the question; for example, “How does the system of government provide equality?”, “How representative is the government?”, “What processes ensure accountability?” and “How accessible is the government to citizens?”
  • revisiting the questions based on further collection of information; for example, “Do different groups in society have particular views on representativeness, equality and accountability?”
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Inquiry-based learning,  Research questions

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