Elaboration (2) ACHASSK044
investigating the history of a chosen person, building, site or landmark in the local community using sources (for example, books, newspapers, oral histories, audiovisual material, digital sources, letters, photographs) and relating a story which these …
Elaboration (2) | ACHASSK044 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHGK055
researching the causes of urban concentration in Australia and the United States of America (for example, the history of European settlement, migration, the export orientation of the economy, the centralisation of state governments, environmental constraints …
Elaboration | ACHGK055 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1502
recognising that a bare assertion (for example 'It's the best film this year') often needs to be tempered by: using the 'impersonal it' to distance oneself (for example 'It could be that it is the best film this year'); recruiting anonymous support (for …
Elaboration | ACELA1502 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHASSI155
applying dating conventions on sequences, including ‘BC’ (Before Christ), ‘AD’ (Anno Domini), ‘BCE’ (Before Common Era), and ‘CE’ (Common Era) and using terms such as ‘prehistory’ (before the period of textual recording) and ‘history’ (the period beginning …
Elaboration (1) | ACHASSI155 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1591
describing features of text settings including time, colours used to portray year, season, and place (country or city) and how this impacts on the characters
Elaboration | ACELT1591 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELT1584
discussing features of book settings including time (year, season) and place (country or city, realistic or imagined)
Elaboration (2) | ACELT1584 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1714
creating informative texts for two different audiences, such as a visiting academic and a Year 3 class, that explore an aspect of biodiversity
Elaboration | ACELY1714 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACSHE119
researching developments in the understanding of astronomy, such as the predictions of eclipses and the calculation of the length of the solar year by Al‑Battani in the tenth century
Elaboration (2) | ACSHE119 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Science | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHASSI131
relating the decisions made by individuals and organisations to criteria used to evaluate options (for example, the criteria for Australian of the Year, for the award of the Order of Australia, for the selection of a school captain)
Elaboration | ACHASSI131 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACMSP227
investigating a range of data and its sources, for example the age of residents in Australia, Cambodia and Tonga; the number of subjects studied at school in a year by 14-year-old students in Australia, Japan and Timor-Leste
Elaboration | ACMSP227 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHASSK029
exploring how cultures recognise significant events (for example, the Chinese describe a child as being one year old on the day he/she is born; some religious groups don’t celebrate birthdays)
Elaboration (1) | ACHASSK029 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACMSP068
refining questions and planning investigations that involve collecting data, and carrying out the investigation (for example narrowing the focus of a question such as ‘which is the most popular breakfast cereal?’ to ‘which is the most popular breakfast …
Elaboration | ACMSP068 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum