Communicating Your Findings (Grade 5)
Free printable HASS inquiry skills worksheet for Grade 5. Students choose the right format for each purpose, complete subject-term sentences, and sequence the road to Federation.
Grade 5 · Social Studies worksheet
Name
Date
Social Studies
Communicating Your Findings
Circle the best format for each purpose, choose the correct subject term, then number the Federation events in time order (1 = first). Extension (not marked): present your ordered timeline to the class.
- 1.You want to show the exact medal counts for ten countries in one easy-to-scan grid. Which format fits best?
- a) A line graph
- b) A table
- c) An annotated map
- d) A timeline
- e) A written report
- 2.You want to show the exact rainfall figures for six towns side by side. Which format fits best?
- a) A line graph
- b) A table
- c) An annotated map
- d) A timeline
- e) A written report
- 3.You want to show the sequence of events from the first Federation convention to the first federal election. Which format fits best?
- a) A line graph
- b) A table
- c) An annotated map
- d) A timeline
- e) A written report
- 4.You want to show whether visitor numbers rose or fell each month across two years. Which format fits best?
- a) A line graph
- b) A table
- c) An annotated map
- d) A timeline
- e) A written report
- 5.You want to show where the flood reached, with notes explaining each affected place. Which format fits best?
- a) A line graph
- b) A table
- c) An annotated map
- d) A timeline
- e) A written report
- 6.Choose the correct term: a law proposed in parliament but not yet passed is called a blank .
- a) bill
- b) verdict
- 7.Choose the correct term: the long-term pattern of weather in a region is its blank .
- a) forecast
- b) climate
- 8.Choose the correct term: the joining of the six colonies into one nation in 1901 is called blank .
- a) colonisation
- b) Federation
- 9.Choose the correct term: buying goods from another country is called blank .
- a) importing
- b) exporting
- 10.The Commonwealth of Australia is proclaimed (1 January 1901)
- 11.The first National Australasian Convention drafts a constitution (1891)
- 12.Australians vote in the first federal election (March 1901)
- 13.Parliament moves to the new Parliament House in Canberra (1927)
- 14.The final colony referendums approve the Constitution (1900)
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Accuracy and sources
These references support the historical wording and answer key on this worksheet.
- National Museum of Australia, Defining Moments — Dates used in the sequencing items (gold at Bathurst 1851, Eureka Stockade 1854, Burke and Wills 1861, last convict ship 1868, Federation 1901, Parliament House 1927) checked against the museum's Defining Moments entries.