Australian Curriculum Year 4 History Sample Assessment
First Contacts: A First Fleet story
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Purpose of assessment: To compare life before and after the arrival on the First Fleet and develop a text to explain how life has changed and/or stayed
the same.
Historical knowledge and
understanding
Describes the story of the First Fleet,
including reasons for the journey and the
experiences of life in the past before and
after the arrival in Australia.
Sections 3 and 4
Comprehensively explains reasons
for the journey on the First Fleet, the
experiences of life in the past before
and after the arrival in Australia, how
life has changed and stayed the
same.
Describes reasons for the journey on
the First Fleet and the experiences
of life in the past before and after the
First Fleet.
Makes statements about life in
the past.
Australian Curriculum
Year 4 History
| Task-specific standards — continua
Understanding and skills
Questioning and researching
Develops questions about the past,
locates and identifies relevant information
from historical sources to answer inquiry
questions.
Section 1 and 2
Develops logical and interrelated
questions about the past and locates
and identifies information in a range
of sources to answer inquiry
questions.
Develops questions about the past;
locates and identifies information in
a range of sources to answer inquiry
questions
Asks obvious questions about the
past and locates information from
supplied sources.
First Contacts: A First Fleet story
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Historical skills
Analysing and interpreting Communicating
Identifies different points of view in Develops a historical narrative that
sources. sequences historical people and events
and uses historical terms and concepts.
Section 3 and 4 Section 4
Clearly explains different points of Develops a clear and purposeful A
view in sources. historical narrative using explicit
historical terms and clearly
sequences of events and dates in
chronological order.
B
Identifies different points of view in Develops a historical narrative using
sources.
C
historical terms and sequences
events and dates in chronological
order.
Identifies different information in Partially develops a guided narrative
supplied sources using provided terms denoting time.
E
Task-specific standards — continua