Australian Curriculum Year 4 History Sample Assessment | Assessment resource

First contacts: A First Fleet story

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Historical inquiry process

New learning
based on the concepts of
Planning
historical understanding
 connect topic to own and others prior
Researching
knowledge and ideas  locate primary and
secondary sources (written,
 identify key concepts, terms, people and
spoken, multimodal)
events
 develop questions to frame
 sequence key events and developments
inquiry
 research information on the key inquiry
 modify inquiry questions as
question
required

Using sources
 gather and organise
Historical information from
inquiry sources
 synthesise information
 evaluate the worth,
relevance and
reliability of evidence

Communicating
 organise and synthesise Interpreting
ideas  interpret and analyse
 develop arguments perspectives
incorporating sources  make decisions about the validity
 plan, edit and revise and significance of perspectives
texts (written, spoken,
multimodal)
 acknowledge evidence
from sources

Reflecting
 review hypothesis,
questions or research
 review sources and
evidence
 revisit appropriate inquiry
phase