Structure Mathematics
The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics is organised around the interaction of three content strands and four proficiency strands. The content strands are number and algebra, measurement and geometry, and statistics and probability. They describe what …
Structure | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Student diversity
ACARA is committed to the development of a high-quality curriculum that promotes excellence and equity in education for all Australian students. All students are entitled to rigorous, relevant and engaging learning programs drawn from the Australian Curriculum: …
Student diversity | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Structure Science
The three interrelated strands of science The Australian Curriculum: Science has three interrelated strands: science understanding, science as a human endeavour and science inquiry skills. Together, the three strands of the science curriculum provide …
Structure | Science | F-10 curriculum
F-6/7 Humanities and Social Sciences - Years 5 and 6
F-6/7 HASS (Geography sub-strand) Year 5 The influence of people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, on the environmental characteristics of Australian places (ACHGK027) The environmental and human influences on the location and …
F-6/7 Humanities and Social Sciences - Years 5 and 6 | Conservation and sustainability | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Geography - Years 7 and 8
Geography Year 7 The ways that flows of water connect places as it moves through the environment and the ways that it affects places (ACHGK038) The economic, cultural, spiritual and aesthetic value of water for people, including Aboriginal and Torres …
Geography - Years 7 and 8 | Conservation and sustainability | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Geography - Years 9 and 10
Geography Year 9 The distribution and characteristics of biomes as regions with distinctive climates, soils, vegetation and productivity (ACHGK060) The effects of people’s travel, recreational, cultural or leisure choices on places, and the implications …
Geography - Years 9 and 10 | Conservation and sustainability | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Achievement Standard English Foundation Year
Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of the Foundation year, students use predicting and questioning strategies to make meaning from texts. They recall one or two events from texts with familiar topics. They understand that there …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standard | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard English Year 1
Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 1, students understand the different purposes of texts. They make connections to personal experience when explaining characters and main events in short texts. They identify that texts …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard English Year 2
Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 2, students understand how similar texts share characteristics by identifying text structures and language features used to describe characters and events, or to communicate factual …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard English Year 3
Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 3, students understand how content can be organised using different text structures depending on the purpose of the text. They understand how language features, images and vocabulary …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Mathematics Year 6
By the end of Year 6, students recognise the properties of prime, composite, square and triangular numbers. They describe the use of integers in everyday contexts. They solve problems involving all four operations with whole numbers. Students connect …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 6 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Mathematics Year 7
By the end of Year 7, students solve problems involving the comparison, addition and subtraction of integers. They make the connections between whole numbers and index notation and the relationship between perfect squares and square roots. They solve …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 7 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Science Year 10
By the end of Year 10, students analyse how the periodic table organises elements and use it to make predictions about the properties of elements. They explain how chemical reactions are used to produce particular products and how different factors influence …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 10 | Science | F-10 curriculum
Structure Design and Technologies
The Australian Curriculum: Design and Technologies (F–10) comprises two related strands: Design and Technologies knowledge and understanding – the use, development and impact of technologies and design ideas across a range of technologies contexts Design …
Structure | Design and Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACLASFC182
brainstorming, planning and working together to advertise and present an intercultural event for their year-level peers
Elaboration (1) | ACLASFC182 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Years F–10 Sequence | Second Language Learner Pathway | Auslan | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACLCHU016
participating in a shared meal, a New Year celebration or a Chinese performance, commenting on the experience and listening to the sounds of Chinese
Elaboration (2) | ACLCHU016 | Content Descriptions | Foundation to Year 2 | Years F–10 Sequence | Second Language Learner Pathway | Chinese | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (11) ACLFWC004
naming and discussing key ceremonies and social and cultural events, the times of year at which they occur and associated activities in the community
Elaboration (11) | ACLFWC004 | Content Descriptions | Foundation to Year 2 | Years F–10 Sequence | First Language Learner Pathway (L1) | Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Rationale Mathematical Methods
Mathematics is the study of order, relation and pattern. From its origins in counting and measuring it has evolved in highly sophisticated and elegant ways to become the language now used to describe much of the modern world. Statistics is concerned with …
Rationale | Mathematical Methods | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
How is the literacy progression structured?
Elements and sub-elements The National Literacy Learning Progression has three elements that reflect aspects of literacy development necessary for successful learners of the F–10 Australian Curriculum and in everyday life. The three elements, which align …
How is the literacy progression structured? | National Literacy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Key ideas English
Texts Texts provide the means for communication. They can be written, spoken, visual, multimodal, and in print or digital/online forms. Multimodal texts combine language with other means of communication such as visual images, soundtrack or spoken words, …
Key ideas | English | F-10 curriculum