Staff planning: Adapting the Australian Curriculum to meet the needs of all students
The Woden School offers a supported high school and senior secondary school program to eligible students who meet the ACT Disability Criteria, including students with mild to moderate intellectual disability in addition to other medical conditions or …
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Planning a meal – AT
Students studied a unit on food and culture which included learning about traditional Vietnamese foods, etiquette, extending invitations, planning events that include food, and analysing menus and courses of meals. In this task, students were to imagine …
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School Projects: An Overview
School projects fell into one of two categories: pre-existing, well-tried projects with a defined outcome original projects, designed to appeal to the interests of students or to respond to a particular school or local context. Pre-existing projects …
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Report Findings: Qualitative Data
Participating schools were asked to report against the project aims as part of their evaluation. This section provides a summary of their responses and outlines additional benefits of the project.
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Report Findings: Benefits & Challenges
Many teachers commented on the unanticipated benefits for their students from their involvement in the STEM Connections project. The development of general capabilities, such as Critical and Creative Thinking, and Personal and Social Capability, was overwhelmingly …
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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 …
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Advice for Implementation
Advice School reports and surveys for students and staff members provided valuable insight into what contributes to a successful project. Schools Strong commitment from the school as a whole is vital for the success of such a project. Key to project success …
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Consumer and financial literacy: Personal and social capability
Personal and Social Capability has an important role in developing consumer and financial literacy in young people, equipping them with the knowledge, understanding, skills and dispositions needed to engage in a range of consumer and financial situations. …
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Consumer and financial literacy: Year 5
The diverse circumstances in which children grow up influence their needs, wants, perceptions and behaviours related to financial and consumer matters. Typically, at age 10 to 11, children can discriminate between their needs and wants and make simple …
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Consumer and financial literacy: Year 7
The diverse circumstances in which children grow up influence their needs, wants, perceptions and behaviours related to financial and consumer matters. Typically, at age 12 to 13, children are given more responsibility as their roles in family and social …
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Consumer and financial literacy: Year 8
The diverse circumstances in which children grow up influence their needs, wants, perceptions and behaviours related to financial and consumer matters. Typically, at age 13 to 14, young people are given more responsibility as their roles in family and …
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Food and fibre: Years 3 and 4
Through the primary years, students draw on their increasing experience of family, school and the wider community to develop their understanding of the world including investigating food and fibre production and becoming aware of the importance of primary …
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Food and wellbeing: Years 3 and 4
In Years 3 and 4, students develop a sense of self and ownership of their ideas and thinking about their peers and communities and as consumers. They become aware of the role of those working in design and technologies occupations and how they think about …
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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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Consumer and financial literacy: Work Studies
The Australian Curriculum: Work Studies has a unique role in developing consumer and financial literacy in young people. Work Studies prepares students with the self-knowledge, contemporary work skills and entrepreneurial behaviours that will enable them …
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Respect matters: Design and Technologies
Through the Design and Technologies curriculum, students develop knowledge, understanding and skills that can play a role in enriching and transforming societies. They become discerning decision makers and develop critical thinking skills as they create …
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Two-way science at Watiyawanu Kuula: collecting, identifying a classifying local plants and how they survive
Mt Liebig School is a Northern Territory government school located in a remote community 325 km west of Alice Springs on the traditional lands of the Pintupi-Luritja people. It has an enrolment of 60 students, of whom 100% are Aboriginal. The school is …
Two-way science at Watiyawanu Kuula: collecting, identifying a classifying local plants and how they survive | Illustrations of practice | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures | Resources
Two-way science at Areyonga: investigating the health of local springs
Areyonga School is a Northern Territory government school located in a remote community 225 km west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory on the traditional lands of the Pitjantjatjara people. It has an enrolment of 50 students, of whom 100% are …
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Fire: a burning question
Gordonvale State High School is a government school located south of Cairns in Queensland on the traditional lands of the Malanbarra Yidinji people. It has an enrolment of 862 students, of whom 29% are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. The school …
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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, …
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