HASS F-6 / Year 4 / Skills / Interpreting, analysing and evaluating

Curriculum content descriptions

analyse information and data, and identify perspectives (AC9HS4S04)

Elaborations
  • comparing information in sources to identify evidence of change; for example, First Nations Australian, Dutch and French place names on Australia’s west coast
  • analysing information collected from interviews with different people about the same issue; for example, developers, businesspeople and their employees, council members, local Elders and conservationists, regarding the management of resources
  • analysing information gathered through visible thinking strategies to examine a group of paintings and/or maps across a period of time to explore evidence of continuity and change, and significant events in Australia pre- and post-1788 (for example, images of First Nations Australian rock painting depicting early interactions and trade with the Macassans) and comparing it with written information from a historian
  • exploring different perspectives about a historical event (for example, the perspectives of convicts, soldiers, free settlers and First Nations Australians on the arrival of the First Fleet) or a contemporary issue, such as a school issue or an environmental issue
General capabilities
  • Personal and social capability Personal and Social capability
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Right angles,  Attitudes,  Data analysis,  Reasoning,  Beliefs

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