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Humanities and social sciences / Year 2 / Inquiry and skills / Questioning

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Curriculum content descriptions

Pose questions about past and present objects, people, places and events (ACHASSI034)

Elaborations

developing how, when, where, why questions at the start of and during an investigation and then revisiting the questions to check if they have been answered
developing inquiry questions about a historical site (for example, ‘What does it look like now?’, ‘What condition is it in?’, ‘What was its purpose?’, ‘How might its use have changed?’, ‘How was it built/created?’, ‘Who built it?’, ‘How is it now used?’, ‘Why is it important?’)
developing inquiry questions about places (for example, ‘What are the features of the place?’, ‘How far away is it?’, ‘How easy is it to get to?’, ‘How am I connected to it?’)
posing questions using the stems, ‘How do I feel about …’, ’What would it be like to …’ and ‘What effect …’

General capabilities

Literacy
Critical and creative thinking

ScOT terms

Artefacts, Geographic location

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