Work sample Year 8 History: Significant groups (the Vikings) in an expansion

This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Year 8 History. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an authentic representation of student work and may contain errors such as spelling mistakes and other inaccuracies. In this work sample students: • describe the social, religious, cultural, economic, environmental and/or political aspects related to the changes and continuities in a society or a historical period • describe the role of significant individuals, groups and institutions connected to the societies of these periods and their influences on historical events • develop questions about the past to inform historical inquiry • locate and identify a range of primary and secondary sources as evidence in historical inquiry • describe the origin, content and context of sources, and explain the purpose of primary and secondary sources • compare sources to explain the accuracy, usefulness and reliability of sources as evidence • describe perspectives, attitudes and values of the past, and suggest reasons for different points of view • explain historical interpretations about significant events and people • use historical knowledge, concepts, terms and references to evidence from sources to create descriptions, explanations and historical arguments