Year 7 · Humanities and Social Sciences · Skills

AC9HH7S03

identify the origin, content, context and purpose of primary and secondary sources

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Taught alongside it

The rest of Skills in Year 7.

The same idea, year by year

Where AC9HH7S03 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Year 7.

1. Year 8AC9HH8S01develop historical questions about the past to inform historical inquiry
2. Year 8AC9HH8S02locate and identify primary and secondary sources to use in historical inquiry
3. Year 8AC9HH8S03identify the origin, content, context and purpose of primary and secondary sources
4. Year 8AC9HH8S04identify and describe the accuracy and usefulness of primary and secondary sources as evidence
5. Year 8AC9HH8S05describe causes and effects, and explain continuities and changes
6. Year 8AC9HH8S06identify perspectives, attitudes and values of the past in sources
7. Year 8AC9HH8S07explain historical interpretations about significant events, individuals and groups
8. Year 8AC9HH8S08create descriptions, explanations and historical arguments, using historical knowledge, concepts and terms that reference evidence from sources