Australian Curriculum General Capacities
Year 8 History
Topic: The Vikings
Literacy (ACARA, 2013a)
Students become literate as they develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions to interpret and use language confidently for learning and communicating in and out of school and for participating effectively in society.
Literacy involves students in listening to, reading, viewing, speaking, writing and creating oral, print, visual and digital texts, and using and modifying language for different purposes in a range of contexts.
Student Version:
During this topic, teachers will have you read or view various sources of information. You will digest this information and use this to confidently present your own conclusions. You will begin to write more formal history accounts to explain a sequence of events.
Critical and Creative Thinking (ACARA, 2013b)
Students develop capability in critical and creative thinking as they learn to generate and evaluate knowledge, clarify concepts and ideas, seek possibilities, consider alternatives and solve problems.
Critical and creative thinking are integral to activities that require students to think broadly and deeply using skills, behaviours and dispositions such as reason, logic, resourcefulness, imagination and innovation in all learning areas at school and in their lives beyond school.
Student Version:
There are a lot of theories regarding Viking culture. These are in fact just that, THEORIES. No one knows for fact why they did what they did. You will examine primary and secondary sources to see if you conclude with the author. You can ask questions of the sources and think critically about the usefulness and reliability of the sources. Creative thinking might help you develop new interpretations of past events.
Year 8 History
Topic: The Vikings
Literacy (ACARA, 2013a)
Students become literate as they develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions to interpret and use language confidently for learning and communicating in and out of school and for participating effectively in society.
Literacy involves students in listening to, reading, viewing, speaking, writing and creating oral, print, visual and digital texts, and using and modifying language for different purposes in a range of contexts.
Student Version:
During this topic, teachers will have you read or view various sources of information. You will digest this information and use this to confidently present your own conclusions. You will begin to write more formal history accounts to explain a sequence of events.
Critical and Creative Thinking (ACARA, 2013b)
Students develop capability in critical and creative thinking as they learn to generate and evaluate knowledge, clarify concepts and ideas, seek possibilities, consider alternatives and solve problems.
Critical and creative thinking are integral to activities that require students to think broadly and deeply using skills, behaviours and dispositions such as reason, logic, resourcefulness, imagination and innovation in all learning areas at school and in their lives beyond school.
Student Version:
There are a lot of theories regarding Viking culture. These are in fact just that, THEORIES. No one knows for fact why they did what they did. You will examine primary and secondary sources to see if you conclude with the author. You can ask questions of the sources and think critically about the usefulness and reliability of the sources. Creative thinking might help you develop new interpretations of past events.