Number patterns and algebraic thinking description
Figuring out how a pattern works brings predictability and allows the making of generalisations. This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly able to identify a pattern as something that is a discernible regularity in a group of numbers …
Number patterns and algebraic thinking | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Understanding units of measurement description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly able to recognise attributes that can be measured and how units of measure are used and calculated. In making the transition from informal to formal units, a student attends to the structure …
Understanding units of measurement | Measurement and geometry | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Positioning and locating description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly able to recognise the attributes of position and location, and to use positional language to describe himself/herself and objects in various locations. A student learns to reason with representations …
Positioning and locating | Measurement and geometry | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Measuring time description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly aware of the passage of time. A student appreciates units of time are associated with regularly occurring events, such as the rotation of Earth or the swing of a pendulum. They apply units …
Measuring time | Measurement and geometry | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Understanding chance description
Our modern understandings of probability date from the second half of the 17th century with the analysis of games of chance. Many of the basic ideas of probability can run contrary to common beliefs. Recognising how what has happened in the past does …
Understanding chance | Statistics and probability | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Interpreting and representing data description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly able to recognise and use visual and numerical displays to describe data associated with statistical investigations, and to critically evaluate investigations by others. Making sense of data …
Interpreting and representing data | Statistics and probability | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
References & Appendices
Australian Curriculum and Assessment Reporting Authority (ACARA) F–10 Curriculum. www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/mathematics/curriculum/f-10 (viewed November 2014) www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/science/curriculum/f-10 (viewed November 2014)www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/technologies/design-and-technologies/curriculum/f-10 (viewed …
References & Appendices | STEM Report | STEM | Resources
Food and fibre
Food and fibre | Portfolios | Curriculum connections | Resources
Design and Technologies - Years 7 and 8
Year 7 and 8 Design and technologies knowledge and understanding Content descriptions with elaborations Investigate the ways in which products, services and environments evolve locally, regionally and globally and how competing factors including social, …
Design and Technologies - Years 7 and 8 | Food and wellbeing dimensions | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Work Studies - Year 9
Learning to learn Plan and implement strategies and processes to improve their learning and enhance the potential to realise their aspirations and personal wellbeing (ACWSCL005) Entrepreneurial behaviours Practise the skills and attributes underpinning …
Work Studies - Year 9 | Responsibility and enterprise | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Sustainability - Years 1 and 2
Students develop the knowledge, skills, values and world views necessary to contribute to more sustainable patterns of living. Actions for a more sustainable future reflect values of care, respect and responsibility, and require us to explore and understand …
Sustainability - Years 1 and 2 | Conservation and sustainability | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Sustainability - Years 5 and 6
Actions for a more sustainable future reflect values of care, respect and responsibility, and require us to explore and understand environments. Students develop the knowledge, skills, values and world views necessary to contribute to more sustainable …
Sustainability - Years 5 and 6 | Conservation and sustainability | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Health and Physical Education - Years 5 and 6
Practise skills to establish and manage relationships - ACPPS055 Examine the influence of emotional responses on behaviour and relationships - ACPPS056 Participate positively in groups and teams by encouraging others and negotiating roles and responsibilities …
Health and Physical Education - Years 5 and 6 | Relationship skills | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Consumer and financial literacy: Year 6
The diverse circumstances in which children grow up influence their needs, wants, perceptions and behaviours related to financial and consumer matters. Typically, at age 11 to 12, children can discriminate between their needs and wants and they independently …
Consumer and financial literacy: Year 6 | Year levels | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Online safety: Critical and Creative Thinking
Students identify, explore and clarify online information and use that knowledge in a range of situations. They think broadly and deeply using skills, behaviours and dispositions such as critical reasoning, logic, resourcefulness, imagination and innovation …
Online safety: Critical and Creative Thinking | General capabilities | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Consumer and financial literacy: 7-10 Civics and Citizenship
The Australian Curriculum: Civics and Citizenship is uniquely positioned to develop consumer and financial literacy in young people. The Civics and Citizenship curriculum supports the development of the dimensions of consumer and financial literacy as …
Consumer and financial literacy: 7-10 Civics and Citizenship | Subjects | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Conclusions
In general, this project highlighted the strong and natural links between the Australian Curriculum: Science, Mathematics and Technologies. ACARA’s STEM Connections project was well-received by participating schools, with the majority of students and …
Conclusions | STEM Report | STEM | Resources
Introduction
Science, Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and STEM education have become the focus of considerable political, industry and media commentary. Widespread concern about Australia’s performance in STEM disciplines and take-up of STEM careers …
Introduction | STEM Report | STEM | Resources
Consumer and financial literacy: Year 2
The diverse circumstances in which children grow up influence their needs, wants, perceptions and behaviours related to financial and consumer matters. Typically, at age seven to eight, within their family’s unique circumstances, children explore their …
Consumer and financial literacy: Year 2 | Year levels | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Consumer and financial literacy
Consumer and financial literacy | Portfolios | Curriculum connections | Resources