AC9HH8S02
Official content description
locate and identify primary and secondary sources to use in historical inquiry
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What Year 8 HASS students should achieve
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- Students identify ways in which Australians express different aspects of their identity and explain perspectives on Australia’s national identity.
- They describe the roles of political parties and elected representatives in Australian government.
- They sequence events and developments to explain causes and effects, and patterns of continuity and change across societies and time periods.
- They interpret information and data to identify economic and business issues and trends, and describe economic cause-and-effect relationships.
- They describe the effects of human activity or hazards on environments.
- They explain how these interconnections change places or environments.
The Skills progression either side of AC9HH8S02
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Taught before · Year 7
Builds towards · Year 9
- AC9HH9S01develop and modify a range of historical questions about the past to inform historical inquiry
- AC9HH9S02locate, identify and compare primary and secondary sources to use in historical inquiry
- AC9HH9S03identify the origin and content of sources, and explain the purpose and context of primary and secondary sources
Other Year 8 Skills codes
- AC9HH8S01develop historical questions about the past to inform historical inquiry
- AC9HH8S03identify the origin, content, context and purpose of primary and secondary sources
- AC9HH8S04identify and describe the accuracy and usefulness of primary and secondary sources as evidence
- AC9HH8S05describe causes and effects, and explain continuities and changes
- AC9HH8S06identify perspectives, attitudes and values of the past in sources
- AC9HH8S07explain historical interpretations about significant events, individuals and groups
- AC9HH8S08create descriptions, explanations and historical arguments, using historical knowledge, concepts and terms that reference evidence from sources
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