Career education: STEAM learning and creative problem solving
This Illustration of practice demonstrates how Burnie Primary School incorporates career education through the implementation of a Science, Technologies, Engineering, The Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) program, which also provides students with the opportunity …
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Understanding texts description
Understanding texts describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient in decoding, using, interacting with, analysing and evaluating texts to build meaning. Texts include components of print, image, sound, animated movements and symbolic representations. …
Understanding texts | Reading and viewing | National Literacy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Quantifying numbers description
Although number is an abstract concept which can be represented by a word, a symbol (numeral) or an image, it is central to quantitative thinking. This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly able to count, recognise, read and interpret …
Quantifying numbers | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Additive strategies description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly able to choose and use additive computational strategies for different purposes. The transition from counting by one to more flexible methods of dealing with quantity, where numbers are treated …
Additive strategies | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Operating with decimals description
This sub-element focuses on understanding the use of place value in operating with decimals. Decimals are better suited to estimating magnitude than fractions because decimals use the base-ten system to record quantity and fractions do not. However, the …
Operating with decimals | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Understanding money description
The descriptive term decimal applied to money refers to the basic conversion units being multiples of ten. However, money is not a true decimal system. Amounts such as $2.99 are spoken as two whole numbers (2 dollars 99) and, due to the withdrawal of …
Understanding money | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Comparing units (ratios, rates and proportion) description
This sub-element addresses comparing units in ratios, rates and proportions. A ratio describes a situation in comparative terms, and a proportion is taken to mean when this comparison is used to describe a related situation in the same comparative terms. …
Comparing units (ratios, rates and proportion) | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Consumer and financial literacy: 7-10 Economics and Business
The Australian Curriculum: Economics and Business is uniquely positioned to develop consumer and financial literacy in young people. The curriculum supports the development of the dimensions of consumer and financial literacy as shown in the diagram below. Approximate …
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Multimedia: Foundation to Year 2
From Foundation to Year 2, students build on the concepts, skills and processes developed in the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF). They use multimedia as they explore the world around them and experiment with ways of expressing ideas and meaning as …
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Exploring different cultural perspectives through two-way teaching
Medina Primary School is a government school located 39km south of the Perth CBD on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk People. The school has an enrolment of 231 students, of whom 28% are Aboriginal. In this illustration of practice, Years 5 and 6 …
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Our Lady of Mercy Catholic School
Our Lady of Mercy Deloraine School is in rural Tasmania and at the time of filming had 135 students, with this number made up of multi-age classes from Foundation to Year 6, and 13 teaching staff. The focus of this school is the provision of education …
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Consumer and financial literacy: Critical and Creative thinking
The Critical and Creative Thinking capability is key to the development of consumer and financial literacy. Responding to the ever-changing consumer and financial landscape requires young people to be creative, innovative, enterprising and adaptable, …
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Outdoor learning: Literacy
Outdoor learning can support the development of literacy by introducing specific terminology used in outdoor contexts. Students understand the language used to describe aspects of the outdoors, maps, products, resources, information and services. They …
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Outdoor learning: Critical and Creative Thinking
Outdoor learning can develop students’ ability to think logically, critically and creatively in response to a range of issues, ideas and challenges in relation to nature. Students can learn how to critically evaluate evidence related to the outdoors and …
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What do a humanoid robot and the recently awakened Narungga language have in common?
Maitland Lutheran School is an independent, co-educational primary and middle school located in the farming district of Maitland, Yorke Peninsula in South Australia on the traditional lands of the Narungga People. The school has an enrolment of 237 students, …
What do a humanoid robot and the recently awakened Narungga language have in common? | Illustrations of practice | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures | Resources
Outdoor learning
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Multiplicative strategies description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly able to use multiplicative strategies in computation. The coordination of units multiplicatively involves using the values of one unit applied to each of the units of the other, the multiplier. …
Multiplicative strategies | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Food and wellbeing: Years 5 and 6
During these years of schooling, students’ thought processes become more complex and consistent, and they gradually become more independent. Students also develop their capacity to work in teams. They develop a sense of social, ethical and environmental …
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English - Years 5 and 6
Understand that different social and geographical dialects or accents are used in Australia in addition to Standard Australian English - ACELA1515 Make connections between students’ own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts …
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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability - Years 3 and 4
Applying social and ethical protocols and practices when using ICT Apply standard guidelines and take action to avoid the common dangers to personal security when using ICT and apply appropriate basic social protocols when using ICT to communicate with …
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability - Years 3 and 4 | Relationship skills | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources