HASS Skills & Kath Murdoch’s Inquiry Cycle
Web Lesson Phase of The
Quest
Phase
Objectives Inquiry Cycle
Our List and describe three
Values values of Australian
democracy.
Compare and contrast
the values of Australian
democracy and
dictatorships (extension).
Our Explain one Right of the
Rights Child and why it is
important.
Link this Right to the WA
Rights of the Child.
Laws to List and describe Human
Protect Rights observed in
Our Rights different settings.
Describe a law or
regulation and explain
how it is protecting
citizens and Human
Rights.
HASS Skills
Finding Out Questioning & Researching - Identifying the key values
Sorting Out of democracy from primary and secondary sources;
Collecting and organising information as a Venn Diagram
to compare and contrast alternative perspectives on
governance.
Finding Out Questioning & Researching - Locating and collecting
Sorting Out information from secondary sources to inform
understanding of the meaning and importance of human
rights; Linking WA Children’s Rights and UNCRC and
displaying this information as a concept map.
Finding Out Analysing - Translating collected information about the
Sorting Out links between rights and laws into a different format (a
cube graphic organiser).
Content Descriptors
Locate and collect information and/or
data from a range of appropriate primary
sources and secondary sources (e.g.
museums, media, library catalogues,
interviews, internet) (WAHASS52)
Record selected information and/or data
using a variety of methods (e.g. use
graphic organisers, paraphrase,
summarise) (WAHASS53)
Locate and collect information and/or
data from a range of appropriate primary
sources and secondary sources (e.g.
museums, media, library catalogues,
interviews, internet) (WAHASS52)
Record selected information and/or data
using a variety of methods (e.g. use
graphic organisers, paraphrase,
summarise) (WAHASS53)
Translate collected information and/or
data to a variety of different formats (e.g.
create a timeline, draw maps, convert a
table of statistics into a graph)
(WAHASS58)
 Web Lesson Phase of The HASS Skills Content Descriptors
Quest
Phase
Objectives Inquiry Cycle
Upholding Describe what could Finding Out Questioning & Researching - Presenting recorded Record selected information and/or data
Laws happen if a law didn’t Sorting Out information (the roles of law enforcers) as a using a variety of methods (e.g. use
exist. communicable product (job advertisement). graphic organisers, paraphrase,
summarise) (WAHASS53)
Create a job Analysing - Investigating the cause-and-effect
advertisement for the role relationship between the removal of laws and its potential Interpret information and/or data collected
of a law enforcer, impact on society. (e.g. sequence events in chronological
including a description of order, identify cause and effect, make
this role and associated connections with prior knowledge)
responsibilities. (WAHASS56)

My Vision Represent the link
between values, rights,
laws and enforcement as
a hierarchy.
Explain the links between
democratic values, rights,
laws and law
enforcement.
Going Further Evaluating - Drawing conclusions about the relationship
Making between values, rights, laws and law enforcement.
Conclusions
Communicating & Reflecting - Reflecting on these
conclusions to formulate a personal vision about the
importance of upholding human rights. Communicating
these evaluations and reflections in the form of a
hierarchy web and Blabberize video appropriate to
audience and purpose.
Draw and justify conclusions, and give
explanations, based on the information
and/or data in texts, tables, graphs and
maps (e.g. identify patterns, infer
relationships) (WAHASS59)
Present findings, conclusions and/or
arguments, appropriate to audience and
purpose, in a range of communication
forms (e.g. written, oral, visual, digital,
tabular, graphic, maps) and using subject-
specific terminology and concepts
(WAHASS61)

Make Create an avatar to Taking Action Exploring concrete mechanisms to apply new Reflect on learning, identify new
Real safely express concerns understandings in our civic institutions (e.g. writing to the understandings and act on findings in
Changes about human rights WA Commissioner for Children and Young People to different ways (e.g. suggest additional
online. express concerns about human rights violations). questions to be investigated, propose a
course of action on an issue that is
significant to them) (WAHASS63)