HASS F-6 / Year 2 / Skills / Questioning and researching

Curriculum content descriptions

collect, sort and record information and data from observations and from provided sources, including unscaled timelines and labelled maps or models (AC9HS2S02)

Elaborations
  • collecting information from sources and observations relevant to learning about the past (for example, photographs, interviews, newspapers, stories, and place and street names in maps) and relevant to learning about places (for example, surveying peers, satellite images, diagrams, field photographs, observations of monuments, built and non-built historical landmarks, middens, remnants of native vegetation and old building remains), and identifying relevant information
  • creating pictorial maps with annotations to show historical sites or places they are connected to, incorporating symbols to show locations of objects, places or significant features
  • locating the places they are connected to, such as through family, travel or friends, or the places they visit for shopping, recreation or other reasons on a print, electronic or wall map
  • ordering key events in the history of the local community or in its development using formats such as unscaled timelines, slideshows or stories; for example, the history of a person, place or building, or the developmental stages of telecommunications technologies
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Timelines,  Data representation,  Maps (Geographic location),  Data collection,  Information retrieval,  Observations (Data)

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