Years 7 and 8 Design and Technologies

Learning in Design and Technologies builds on concepts, skills and processes developed in earlier years, and teachers will revisit, strengthen and extend these as needed. By the end of Year 8 students will have had the opportunity to create designed …

Years 7 and 8 | Design and Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum

Years 5 and 6 Digital Technologies

Learning in Digital Technologies focuses on further developing understanding and skills in computational thinking such as identifying similarities in different problems and describing smaller components of complex systems. It also focuses on the sustainability …

Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum

Years 7 and 8 Digital Technologies

Learning in Digital Technologies focuses on further developing understanding and skills in computational thinking such as decomposing problems and prototyping; and engaging students with a wider range of information systems as they broaden their experiences …

Years 7 and 8 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum

Years 9 and 10 Digital Technologies

Learning in Digital Technologies focuses on further developing understanding and skills in computational thinking such as precisely and accurately describing problems and the use of modular approaches to solutions. It also focuses on engaging students …

Years 9 and 10 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum

HASS Achievement Standard HASS Foundation Year

By the end of Foundation Year, students identify important events in their own lives and recognise why some places are special to people. They describe the features of familiar places and recognise that places can be represented on maps and models. They …

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

Geography Achievement Standard HASS Year 1

By the end of Year 1, students identify and describe the natural, managed and constructed features of places at a local scale and identify where features of places are located. They recognise that people describe the features of places differently. Students …

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

Achievement Standard Drama Years 7 and 8

By the end of Year 8, students identify and analyse how the elements of drama are used, combined and manipulated in different styles. They apply this knowledge in drama they make and perform. They evaluate how they and others from different cultures, …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Years 7 and 8 | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard Drama Years 9 and 10

By the end of Year 10, students analyse the elements of drama, forms and performance styles and evaluate meaning and aesthetic effect in drama they devise, interpret, perform and view. They use their experiences of drama practices from different cultures, …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Years 9 and 10 | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard Media Arts Years 7 and 8

By the end of Year 8, students identify and analyse how representations of social values and points of view are portrayed in the media artworks they make, distribute and view. They evaluate how they and other makers and users of media artworks from different …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Years 7 and 8 | Media Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard Media Arts Years 9 and 10

By the end of Year 10, students analyse how social and cultural values and alternative points of view are portrayed in media artworks they make, interact with and distribute. They evaluate how genre and media conventions and technical and symbolic elements …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Years 9 and 10 | Media Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard Music Years 7 and 8

By the end of Year 8, students identify and analyse how the elements of music are used in different styles and apply this knowledge in their performances and compositions. They evaluate musical choices they and others from different cultures, times and …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Years 7 and 8 | Music | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard Music Years 9 and 10

By the end of Year 10, students analyse different scores and performances aurally and visually. They evaluate the use of elements of music and defining characteristics from different musical styles. They use their understanding of music making in different …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Years 9 and 10 | Music | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard Design and Technologies Foundation to Year 2

By the end of Year 2, students describe the purpose of familiar products, services and environments and how they meet the needs of users and affect others and environments. They identify the features and uses of technologies for each of the prescribed …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Foundation to Year 2 | Design and Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard Digital Technologies Years 5 and 6

By the end of Year 6, students explain the fundamentals of digital system components (hardware, software and networks) and how digital systems are connected to form networks. They explain how digital systems use whole numbers as a basis for representing …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard Digital Technologies Years 7 and 8

By the end of Year 8, students distinguish between different types of networks and defined purposes. They explain how text, image and audio data can be represented, secured and presented in digital systems. Students plan and manage digital projects to …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Years 7 and 8 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELA1502

recognising that a bare assertion (for example 'It's the best film this year') often needs to be tempered by: using the 'impersonal it' to distance oneself (for example 'It could be that it is the best film this year'); recruiting anonymous support (for …

Elaboration | ACELA1502 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 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

Years 7 and 8 Framework for Classical Languages

The nature of the learners Students are beginning their study of Latin and typically have little prior knowledge and understanding of the language and Roman history and culture. Most will have learnt a different language …

Years 7 and 8 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | Latin | Framework for Classical Languages | Languages | F-10 curriculum

Rationale/Aims English as an Additional Language or Dialect

Rationale English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) focuses on language learning and the explicit teaching of the structure, linguistic features and sociolinguistic and sociocultural aspects of Standard Australian English (SAE). Through close …

Rationale/Aims | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum

Achievement Standard Mathematics Year 1

By the end of Year 1, students describe number sequences resulting from skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s. They identify representations of one half. They recognise Australian coins according to their value. Students explain time durations. They describe …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 1 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum