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 …
Outdoor learning: Literacy | General capabilities | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Respect matters: Intercultural Understanding
Intercultural understanding involves learning about and engaging with diverse cultures in ways that recognise commonalities and differences, create connections with others and cultivate mutually respectful relationships. Students reflect on and to take …
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Respect matters: Critical and Creative Thinking
Young people develop critical and creative thinking to respond to complex relationship challenges and pressures of the 21st century. Students develop this capability as they learn to generate and evaluate knowledge, clarify concepts and ideas, seek possibilities, …
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Unit 1: Understanding the Modern World Modern History
This unit examines developments of significance in the modern era, including the ideas that inspired them and their far-reaching consequences. Students examine TWO topics, including at least ONE study of a development or turning point that has helped …
Unit 1: Understanding the Modern World | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Respect matters: Information and Communication Technology Capability
As students develop their information and communication technology capability, they learn to apply social and ethical protocols to manage their online relationships and identify strategies to protect rights, identity, privacy and emotional safety of themselves …
Respect matters: Information and Communication Technology Capability | General capabilities | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Consumer and financial literacy: Literacy
The Literacy capability provides rich opportunities for students to develop consumer and financial literacy. This capability is fundamental to students’ ability to understand and analyse any financial texts. Literacy supports the development of the following …
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Consumer and financial literacy: Numeracy
The Numeracy capability strongly supports the development of consumer and financial literacy by equipping students to use mathematics in their everyday lives. Numeracy supports the development of the following dimensions of consumer and financial literacy. Approximate …
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Unit 1: Chemical fundamentals: structure, properties and reactions Chemistry
Chemists design and produce a vast range of materials for many purposes, including for fuels, cosmetics, building materials and pharmaceuticals. As the science of chemistry has developed over time, there has been an increasing realisation that the properties …
Unit 1 | Chemistry | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Consumer and financial literacy: Information and Communication Technology Capability
The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability supports students to acquire the knowledge, dispositions and skills to use ICT effectively, appropriately and safely in a range of real-world consumer and financial contexts. The ICT Capability …
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Consumer and financial literacy: Ethical understanding
The Ethical Understanding capability has a role in developing consumer and financial literacy in young people. This capability equips students to take account of ethical considerations in consumer and financial contexts such as human rights and environmental …
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Interacting description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient at active listening, strategic and respectful questioning and using language to share information and negotiate meaning and outcomes. Students interact across an increasing range …
Interacting | Speaking and listening | National Literacy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Phonic knowledge and word recognition description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient at using letter-sound relationships and visual knowledge as code-breaking skills. Phonic knowledge and word recognition are among the range of resources students use as they read …
Phonic knowledge and word recognition | Reading and viewing | National Literacy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
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
Unit 4 General Mathematics
This unit has three topics: ‘Time series analysis’; ‘ Loans, investments and annuities’ and ‘Networks and decision mathematics’. ‘Time series analysis’ continues students’ study of statistics by introducing them to the concepts and techniques of time …
Unit 4 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 3 Specialist Mathematics
Unit 3 of Specialist Mathematics contains three topics: ‘Vectors in three dimensions’, ‘Complex numbers’ and ‘Functions and sketching graphs’. The study of vectors was introduced in Unit 1 with a focus on vectors in two-dimensional space. In this unit, …
Unit 3 | Specialist Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
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
Unit 1: Biodiversity and the interconnectedness of life Biology
The current view of the biosphere as a dynamic system composed of Earth’s diverse, interrelated and interacting ecosystems developed from the work of eighteenth and nineteenth century naturalists, who collected, classified, measured and mapped the distribution …
Unit 1 | Biology | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 2: Cells and multicellular organisms Biology
The cell is the basic unit of life. Although cell structure and function are very diverse, all cells possess some common features: all prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells need to exchange materials with their immediate external environment in order to maintain …
Unit 2 | Biology | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 2 Specialist Mathematics
Unit 2 of Specialist Mathematics contains three topics – ‘Trigonometry’, ‘Real and complex numbers’ and ‘Matrices’… ‘Trigonometry’ contains techniques that are used in other topics in both this unit and Unit 3. ‘Real and complex numbers’ provides a continuation …
Unit 2 | Specialist Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 1: Introduction to Earth systems Earth and Environmental Science
The Earth system involves four interacting systems: the geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. A change in any one ‘sphere’ can impact others at a range of temporal and spatial scales. In this unit, students build on their existing knowledge …
Unit 1 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum