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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 ACHASSI021

using visual representations such as a ‘days of the week’ chart, a class timetable or a calendar to sequence events or tasks

Elaboration (1) ACHASSI021

describing what they see as they move from one point to another (for example, going from home to school, from the classroom to the library)

comparing students’ daily lives and those of their parents, grandparents, elders or familiar older person, and representing the similarities and differences in graphic form (for example, in a Venn diagram or Y-chart)

Elaboration (1) ACHASSI022

sharing personal preferences about their world (for example, their favourite weather, activities, places, celebrations) and explaining why they are favoured

Elaboration ACHASSI023

identifying similarities and differences between activities over time by comparing objects of the past with those currently used (for example, comparing toys, games, clothes, phones, cooking utensils, tools, homework books)

Elaboration (1) ACHASSI023

using comparative language when describing family life over time and/or comparing features of places, such as ‘smaller than’, ‘bigger than’, ‘closer’, ‘further’, ‘not as big as’, ‘younger/older than’, ‘more rainy days’, ‘fewer/less’, ‘hottest/coldest’, …

Elaboration (2) ACHASSI023

exploring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories, traditional and contemporary, about places and the past and how places have changed

Elaboration (3) ACHASSI023

categorising objects, drawings or images by their features and explaining their reasoning, for example, categorising the features of a local place into natural (native forest), constructed (street of houses) and managed (windbreak of trees)

Elaboration ACHASSI024

finding the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary relating to the past (for example, games such as jacks/knuckles and elastics; technology tools such as floppy discs or USBs, record player, cassette player)

Elaboration (1) ACHASSI024

using information gained from sources (for example, stories, photographs, fieldwork observations, satellite images, rock art) to answer ‘when’, ‘where’, ‘what’, ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions

Elaboration (2) ACHASSI024

finding a hidden item using a map or plan that shows its location

Elaboration ACHASSI025

using collected information (for example, from stories told by parents, grandparents, elders or familiar older people; from geographic pictures) to make conclusions about change over time and place (for example, how occupations and/or technologies have …

Elaboration (1) ACHASSI025

making conclusions after collecting and recording information about events over time (for example, a birthday chart that shows most class members are the same age; stories and pictures which confirm continuity of events over time, such as the local show) …

Elaboration (2) ACHASSI025

imagining what the future may hold based on what they know of the past and present (for example, envisioning what the town they live in might look like in the near future by comparing photographs of the past with their observation of the present) or envisaging …

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