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Geography Achievement Standard HASS Year 1

By the end of Year 1, students identify and describe the natural, managed and constructed features of places at a local scale and identify where features of places are located. They recognise that people describe the features of places differently. Students …

Elaboration ACHASSI002

exploring sources (for example, pictures, photographs, story books, artefacts, excursions to places, family interviews) to gain information about the past

Elaboration (1) ACHASSI010

reporting family history by presenting information in talk, drawings and play and by creating imaginative responses

Elaboration (3) ACHASSI020

developing a pictorial table to categorise information (for example, matching clothes with seasons, activities with the weather, features and places, places with the work done)

Elaboration ACHASSI026

recalling information about a place or a site and giving reasons why it should be cared for and commemorated or celebrated

Elaboration ACHASSI043

conveying information about the past and familiar places by representing ideas in written, spoken, pictorial or performance modes and by creating imaginative responses

Elaboration (3) ACHASSI053

collecting information about the changing composition of their community from sources, such as census data, cemetery observations, interviews with older people or surveys

Elaboration (5) ACHASSI053

acquiring geographical information from schools in geographically contrasting parts of Australia and/or neighbouring countries

Elaboration (3) ACHASSI057

interpreting cartographic information such as titles, map symbols, north point, compass direction, grid references and major lines of latitude

Elaboration (1) ACHASSI074

identifying sources for a historical study, such as sites, paintings (or their representations), maps, written records/accounts, database information, traditional ballads and stories

Elaboration (2) ACHASSI075

recording and sorting collected information using tally sheets, murals, surveys, graphs and tables, databases or spreadsheets

Elaboration ACHASSI076

creating a timeline by accurately placing information about key events or people in chronological order and explaining the sequence

Elaboration (1) ACHASSI095

finding geographical information in primary sources (such as fieldwork and photographs) and secondary sources (such as maps, plans and reports in digital and non-digital form)

Elaboration (3) ACHASSI096

mapping geographical data using spatial technologies (for example, the location of recent bushfires in Australia, or information they have collected through fieldwork)

Elaboration (2) ACHASSI098

identifying the purpose and usefulness of information gained from primary and secondary sources (for example, checking publication details)

Elaboration ACHASSI133

composing information and expository texts, supported by evidence, to describe conclusions from their economic, civic, historical and geographical inquiries

Elaboration ACHASSI154

deciding which formats best suit the presentation of gathered information after consideration of a range of digital and non-digital media

Elaboration (2) ACHASSI163

using graphic representations (such as graphs, tables, spreadsheets and photographs) to present, supplement and clarify information contained in reports and other documents

ACHASSI010

Present narratives, information and findings in oral, graphic and written forms using simple terms to denote the passing of time and to describe direction and location

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACHASSI027