Overview of the senior secondary Australian Curriculum
ACARA has developed a senior secondary Australian Curriculum for English, Mathematics, Science and Humanities and Social Sciences. The senior secondary Australian Curriculum specifies content and achievement standards for each senior secondary subject. …
Overview of the senior secondary Australian Curriculum | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Links to Foundation to Year 10
Each senior secondary English subject draws upon, develops and emphasises different knowledge, understandings, skills and processes related to the strands of Language, Literature and Literacy used in the Foundation to Year 10 curriculum. The emphasis …
Links to Foundation to Year 10 | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Overview of the senior secondary Australian Curriculum
ACARA has developed a senior secondary Australian Curriculum for English, Mathematics, Science and Humanities and Social Sciences. The senior secondary Australian Curriculum specifies content and achievement standards for each senior secondary subject. …
Overview of the senior secondary Australian Curriculum | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Overview of senior secondary Australian Curriculum
ACARA has developed a senior secondary Australian Curriculum for English, Mathematics, Science and Humanities and Social Sciences. The senior secondary Australian Curriculum specifies content and achievement standards for each senior secondary subject. …
Overview of senior secondary Australian Curriculum | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Overview of senior secondary Australian Curriculum
ACARA has developed a senior secondary Australian Curriculum for English, Mathematics, Science and Humanities and Social Sciences. The senior secondary Australian Curriculum specifies content and achievement standards for each senior secondary subject. …
Overview of senior secondary Australian Curriculum | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Links to Foundation to Year 10 General Mathematics
The General Mathematics subject provides students with a breadth of mathematical and statistical experience that encompasses and builds on all three strands of the F-10 curriculum.
Links to Foundation to Year 10 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Rationale/Aims Essential English
Rationale Essential English focuses on consolidating and refining the skills and knowledge needed by students to become competent, confident and engaged users of English in many contemporary contexts including everyday, community, social, further education, …
Rationale/Aims | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure of Essential English Essential English
Units Unit 1 focuses on students comprehending and responding to the ideas and information presented in texts drawn from a range of contexts. Students are taught a variety of strategies to assist comprehension. They read, view and listen to texts to connect, …
Structure of Essential English | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Rationale/Aims Literature
Rationale Literature focuses on the study of literary texts, developing students as independent, innovative and creative learners and thinkers who appreciate the aesthetic use of language, evaluate perspectives and evidence, and challenge ideas and interpretations. …
Rationale/Aims | Literature | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Representation of General capabilities Geography
The general capabilities encompass the knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions that, together with the Geography curriculum content and the cross-curriculum priorities, will help students to live and work successfully in the twenty-first century. The …
Representation of General capabilities | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Rationale/Aims Modern History
Rationale The Modern History curriculum enables students to study the forces that have shaped today’s world and provides them with a broader and deeper comprehension of the world in which they live. While the focus is on the 20th century, the curriculum …
Rationale/Aims | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure of Essential Mathematics Essential Mathematics
Essential Mathematics has four units each of which contains a number of topics. It is intended that the topics be taught in a context relevant to students’ needs and interests. In Essential Mathematics, students use their knowledge and skills to investigate …
Structure of Essential Mathematics | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure of Literature Literature
Units Unit 1 develops students’ knowledge and understanding of different ways of reading and creating literary texts drawn from a widening range of historical, social, cultural and personal contexts. Students analyse the relationships between language, …
Structure of Literature | Literature | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 3 Mathematical Methods
In this unit the study of calculus continues with the derivatives of exponential and trigonometric functions and their applications, together with some differentiation techniques and applications to optimisation problems and graph sketching. It concludes …
Unit 3 | Mathematical Methods | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 4 Mathematical Methods
The calculus in this unit deals with derivatives of logarithmic functions. In probability and statistics, continuous random variables and their applications are introduced and the normal distribution is used in a variety of contexts. The study of statistical …
Unit 4 | Mathematical Methods | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 2 English as an Additional Language or Dialect
Unit 2 focuses on analysing and evaluating perspectives and attitudes presented in texts and creating extended texts for a range of contexts. SAE language skills for effective communication in an expanding range of contexts are consolidated. The use of …
Unit 2 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 3 English as an Additional Language or Dialect
Unit 3 focuses on analysing how language choices are used to achieve different purposes and effects in a range of contexts. SAE language skills are developed so that they can be used to describe, inform, express a point of view and persuade for different …
Unit 3 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 4 English as an Additional Language or Dialect
Unit 4 focuses on analysing, evaluating and using language to represent and respond to issues, ideas and attitudes in a range of contexts. By extending and consolidating language and communication skills, critical use of SAE for a range of contexts, purposes …
Unit 4 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 1 Mathematical Methods
This unit begins with a review of the basic algebraic concepts and techniques required for a successful introduction to the study of calculus. The basic trigonometric functions are then introduced. Simple relationships between variable quantities are …
Unit 1 | Mathematical Methods | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 2 Mathematical Methods
The algebra section of this unit focuses on exponentials and logarithms. Their graphs are examined and their applications in a wide range of settings are explored. Arithmetic and geometric sequences are introduced and their applications are studied. Rates …
Unit 2 | Mathematical Methods | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum