Canterbury Boys High School
YEAR 7 HISTORY
ASSESSMENT TASK OUTLINE
Topic: Ancient China
Historical Investigation
Course Component
Task Number
Task 4
Due Date
See below
Total Marks
45 marks
Outcomes
By completing this task, each student will:
HT4-2 Describe major periods of historical time and sequence events, people and societies
from the past
HT4-8 Locate, select and organise information from sources to develop an historical inquiry
HT4-10 Select and use appropriate oral, written, visual and digital forms to communicate about
the past.
Task Outline
In this task you are required to conduct an historical investigation into life during the Shang dynasty. You
must create an educational resource that guides other students to learn about your chosen topic.
Step 1
Choose a topic and formulate three (or more) inquiry questions relevant to your topic.
Due Friday Week 2
5 Marks
Step 2
Conduct research to answer your inquiry questions and record notes and bibliography in the scaffold
provided.
Due Friday Week 4
20 Marks
Step 3
Create an educational resource based on your research that will guide other students to learn about your
chosen topic. One of your peers will complete your educational activity and provide you with feedback
via email.
Due Friday Week 6
Step 4
Make any amendments to your educational activity based on peer feedback and submit to the teacher
with a correctly formatted bibliography and completed reflection sheet.
Due Friday Week 7
20 Marks
Context
This is the fourth assessment task for this subject, where you will have to undertake an historical
inquiry into one aspect of life in ancient China during the Shang dynasty. The skills involved in
conducting an investigation will be a part of your assessment throughout high school and in further
tertiary studies, as well as being an important employment related skill.
Assessment Criteria
In this task, you will be assessed on your ability to:
 Formulate inquiry questions related to your chosen topic.
 Research the topic and use a variety of historical evidence to answer your questions.
 Create an informative and engaging educational resource that helps other students to learn about
your chosen topic.
 Prepare a correctly referenced bibliography of all sources used.
Suggested research topics:
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religion
government
warfare
technology
art
architecture
agriculture
commerce
women’s lives
food
clothing
social class
Ideas for Educational Resources (you would use a combination of these)
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a website
internet scavenger hunt (cyber hunt)
board game
quiz
mix and match
cloze passages
crosswords / find-a-words
true-false
comparison diagrams
YEAR 7 HISTORY
Ancient China - Historical Investigation
MARKING CRITERIA
Outcomes Assessed
HT4-2 Describe major periods of historical time and sequence events, people and societies from the past
HT4-8 Locate, select and organise information from sources to develop an historical inquiry
HT4-10 Select and use appropriate oral, written, visual and digital forms to communicate about the past.
Criteria
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Researches and locates accurate information about the chosen topic using a variety of
reliable sources.
Creates an outstanding engaging and informative educational resource that demonstrates
a deep understanding of the topic and helps other students learn about the chosen topic.
Provides an accurately formatted bibliography.
Researches and locates accurate information about the chosen topic using a variety of
reliable sources.
Creates an informative educational resource that demonstrates a thorough understanding
of the topic and helps other students learn about the chosen topic.
Provides a bibliography that is mostly formatted correctly.
Researches and locates information about the chosen topic using sources (some may be
unreliable).
Creates an educational resource that demonstrates an understanding of the topic and
helps other students learn about the chosen topic.
Provides a bibliography that is mostly formatted correctly.
Researches and locates information about the chosen topic using one or two sources
(which may be unreliable).
Creates an educational resource that demonstrates a basic understanding of the topic.
Provides a bibliography that is incorrectly formatted
Conducts limited research about the chosen topic using a source (that may be unreliable).
Creates a simple educational resource that demonstrates a limited understanding of the
topic.
Provides a bibliography which is incorrectly formatted or does not provide a bibliography
Comment:
Marks
Outstanding
17-20
High
13-16
Sound
9-12
Basic
5-8
Limited
1-4
HSIE Self-Evaluation Sheet
Criteria
Name : _______________________________
Strongly
Agree
Agree
Disagree
Strongly
Disagree
Don’t
Know
I have formatted inquiry questions relevant to my chosen topic
I have conducted research and located at least three reliable
sources about my chosen topic
I have created an informative and engaging educational resource
that will help other students to learn about my chosen topic
I have used historical terms and concepts in the right context
I have edited my work focusing on sentence structure, spelling and
punctuation
I have submitted my assignment with the reflection sheet attached
and acknowledged that this assignment is all my own work and has
not been plagiarised
I have met the assessment task deadline
The strengths of my assessment task are:______________________________________________________________
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The areas I need to improve are:______________________________________________________________________
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Achievement of Learning Habits:
I demonstrated the following learning Habits :
Achieved
Working
Towards
Not Achieved
Being well prepared and organised
Showing initiative and responsibility for my own learning
Working independently to complete task
Reflecting and evaluating own learning
Working cooperatively to complete task
In completing this assignment I gained the following skills that will be relevant to my future employment:
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I also gained the following skills that I will be able to use in other subjects: _____________________________________
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Signature: ___________________________________ Date: ___________
ALL MY OWN WORK ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF ASSESSMENT TASKS
I, _________________________________ of Year 7
acknowledge that this assessment task is substantially my own work.
Any part of this work that is not my own has been acknowledged in the sources
and the bibliography.
Name : __________________________________
Signature : _______________________________
Date : ___________________________________
Inquiry Questions
Name: _______________