Rationale Mathematics

Learning mathematics creates opportunities for and enriches the lives of all Australians. The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics provides students with essential mathematical skills and knowledge in number and algebra, measurement and geometry, and statistics …

Rationale | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum

ACHASSI105

Present ideas, findings, viewpoints and conclusions in a range of texts and modes that incorporate source materials, digital and non-digital representations and discipline-specific terms and conventions

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACHASSI105 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

ACHASSI133

Present ideas, findings, viewpoints and conclusions in a range of texts and modes that incorporate source materials, digital and non-digital representations and discipline-specific terms and conventions

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACHASSI133 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

ACHASSI163

Present ideas, findings, viewpoints, explanations and conclusions in a range of texts and modes that incorporate source materials, citations, graphic representations and discipline-specific terms, conventions and concepts

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACHASSI163 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

History Achievement Standard HASS Year 6

By the end of Year 6 students explain the significance of an event/development, an individual or group. They identify and describe continuities and changes for different groups in the past. They describe the causes and effects of change on society. They …

History Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 6 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

History Achievement Standard HASS Year 7

By the end of Year 7, students explain the role of groups and the significance of particular individuals in past societies. They suggest reasons for change and continuity over time. They describe the effects of change on societies, individuals and groups …

History Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 7 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard History Year 7

By the end of Year 7, students suggest reasons for change and continuity over time. They describe the effects of change on societies, individuals and groups. They describe events and developments from the perspective of different people who lived at the …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 7 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard History Year 8

By the end of Year 8, students recognise and explain patterns of change and continuity over time. They explain the causes and effects of events and developments. They identify the motives and actions of people at the time. Students explain the significance …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 8 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Geography Achievement Standard HASS Foundation Year

By the end of Foundation Year, students describe the features of familiar places and recognise why some places are special to people. They recognise that places can be represented on maps and a globe and why places are important to people. Students observe …

Geography Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

History Achievement Standard HASS Year 1

By the end of Year 1, students identify and describe important dates and changes in their own lives. They explain how some aspects of daily life have changed over recent time while others have remained the same. Students sequence personal and family events …

History Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 1 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

History Achievement Standard HASS Year 2

By the end of Year 2, students describe a person, site and/or event of significance in the local community. They identify how and why the lives of people have changed over time while others have remained the same. Students sequence events in order, using …

History Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 2 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard English Year 6

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 6, students understand how the use of text structures can achieve particular effects. They analyse and explain how language features, images and vocabulary are used by different authors …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELT1628

recognising the similarities and differences between types of texts (for example a complex picture book and a feature film) in order to understand how different combinations of words and images lead readers to interpret visual texts in particular …

Elaboration | ACELT1628 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELT1634

exploring the ways that context has shaped the representation of particular cultures, such as through the analysis of differing viewpoints in texts about different cultures or by comparing the ways texts from different periods reveal differences in viewpoints …

Elaboration (2) | ACELT1634 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1426

recognising that some texts can include both Standard Australian English and elements of other languages including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1426 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1432

commenting on punctuation encountered in the everyday texts, for example ‘That’s the letter that starts my name’, ‘The name of my family and my town has a capital letter’

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1432 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELT1783

talking about people, events and ideas in texts, enabling students to connect them to their own experiences and to express their own opinions about what is depicted

Elaboration (2) | ACELT1783 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELY1646

sequencing ideas in spoken texts, retelling well known stories, retelling stories with picture cues, retelling information using story maps

Elaboration (1) | ACELY1646 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELY1668

identifying the main purpose of a text, including whether the author wants to entertain, explain or persuade and considering how audiences might respond to those texts

Elaboration | ACELY1668 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELA1479

noticing how longer texts are organised into paragraphs, each beginning with a topic sentence/paragraph opener which predicts how the paragraph will develop and is then elaborated in various ways

Elaboration | ACELA1479 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum