Elaboration ACHASSI001
posing questions about family and places having explored sources relating to their own life (for example, sources such as family interviews, photographs, stories, film, classmates’ paintings, excursions to places)
Elaboration | ACHASSI001 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHASSI001
inquiring about the lives, places and events of family members and inquiring about their own history (for example, asking the questions ‘How old was I?’ ‘Where was I?’ and ‘What was I doing?’ in response to family photographs)
Elaboration (1) | ACHASSI001 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACHASSI001
posing questions about artefacts of the past (for example, ‘Is it old or new?’, ‘What was it used for?’) and representations of places (for example, ‘Where is this place?’, ‘What does this show?’ and ‘What is that?’)
Elaboration (2) | ACHASSI001 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACHASSI001
asking questions about the place they are in after being encouraged to observe it using different senses
Elaboration (3) | ACHASSI001 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHASSI002
exploring sources (for example, pictures, photographs, story books, artefacts, excursions to places, family interviews) to gain information about the past
Elaboration | ACHASSI002 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHASSI002
listening to stories from oral, audiovisual and other sources to find information about family, friends, celebrations, places and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures
Elaboration (1) | ACHASSI002 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACHASSI002
observing the features of a special place (for example, their bedroom, under a tree) or local place (such as a beach, farm or ceremony site) and recording these observations
Elaboration (2) | ACHASSI002 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHASSI003
displaying sources related to an investigation (for example, historical sources such as pictures, photographs, family mementoes and geographic sources such as items collected in the field, sketches of observations, measurements)
Elaboration | ACHASSI003 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHASSI003
contributing information to shared records of places, families and friends (for example, adding personal details to murals, concept maps, tally charts and pictorial tables)
Elaboration (1) | ACHASSI003 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACHASSI003
illustrating on a pictorial map, or by making a model, the location of their home in relation to school or other features of the local area
Elaboration (2) | ACHASSI003 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACHASSI003
creating representations to show the location of features of familiar places (for example, making a map and illustrating it with pictures; using objects to create bird’s eye view models)
Elaboration (3) | ACHASSI003 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHASSI004
ordering images and objects (for example, photographs, drawings or artefacts) to show a sequence of significant personal events or milestones (such as age when beginning to walk and talk, at the birth of a sibling, when moving house, when new teeth appear, …
Elaboration | ACHASSI004 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHASSI004
drawing story maps of events described in story books or in stories told by a storyteller
Elaboration (1) | ACHASSI004 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHASSI005
comparing aspects of the childhood of parents, grandparents, elders or a familiar older person, with similar aspects of childhood today (for example, the favourite games of a familiar older person with those of self and class friends)
Elaboration | ACHASSI005 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHASSI005
identifying places in the playground or local area that they like or places they like to avoid, and talking about the reasons for their feelings
Elaboration (1) | ACHASSI005 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHASSI006
talking about differences between objects from the past and those of the present using comparative language (for example, 'This toy is older', ‘My new computer game is more fun than the old one', ‘This tree is older than …’)
Elaboration | ACHASSI006 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHASSI006
distinguishing between older and newer, using such clues as the condition of the object, the width of a tree, the height of a person
Elaboration (1) | ACHASSI006 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACHASSI006
identifying natural and constructed features of a place that have changed over time and those that have remained relatively unchanged
Elaboration (2) | ACHASSI006 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHASSI007
talking about the relevance of information to a task (for example, how to find treasure on a treasure map, why a class timetable is helpful, how a weather map can help us decide what clothes to wear)
Elaboration | ACHASSI007 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHASSI007
sorting pictures of places and people using criteria such as old/new, younger/older, same/different, outside/inside, safe/not safe, special/not special
Elaboration (1) | ACHASSI007 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum