Positioning and locating description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly able to recognise the attributes of position and location, and to use positional language to describe himself/herself and objects in various locations. A student learns to reason with representations …
Positioning and locating | Measurement and geometry | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Measuring time description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly aware of the passage of time. A student appreciates units of time are associated with regularly occurring events, such as the rotation of Earth or the swing of a pendulum. They apply units …
Measuring time | Measurement and geometry | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Understanding chance description
Our modern understandings of probability date from the second half of the 17th century with the analysis of games of chance. Many of the basic ideas of probability can run contrary to common beliefs. Recognising how what has happened in the past does …
Understanding chance | Statistics and probability | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Interpreting and representing data description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly able to recognise and use visual and numerical displays to describe data associated with statistical investigations, and to critically evaluate investigations by others. Making sense of data …
Interpreting and representing data | Statistics and probability | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Unit 4: Global transformations Geography
This unit focuses on the process of international integration (globalisation) as a conceptual ‘lens’ through which to investigate issues in human geography. In doing so, it integrates the sub disciplines of economic and cultural geography, and political …
Unit 4: Global transformations | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Food and fibre: Years 9 and 10
In Years 9 and 10, students further develop their ability to explore social and environmental issues, widening from local to national, regional and global contexts. Students explore patterns and systems to move to the complex ideas of form and function, …
Food and fibre: Years 9 and 10 | Year levels | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Food and wellbeing: Foundation to Year 2
Students bring to school a wide range of experiences, abilities, needs and interests. They have a natural curiosity about their world and begin to develop awareness and respect for each other. Foundation – Year 2 students explore and investigate technologies …
Food and wellbeing: Foundation to Year 2 | Year levels | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Respect matters: 7-10 Geography
In Geography, students learn about the diversity of the world’s places, people and cultures and come to appreciate how cultural identities, including their own, are shaped. Students learn how geographical knowledge informs their personal identity, sense …
Respect matters: 7-10 Geography | Subjects | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Multimedia: Digital Technologies
The Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies provides opportunities for students to use multimedia as they work on creating digital solutions. The subject helps students to become innovative creators of digital solutions, effective users of digital …
Multimedia: Digital Technologies | Subjects | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Unit 4: The changing Earth - the cause and impact of Earth hazards Earth and Environmental Science
Earth hazards occur over a range of time scales and have significant impacts on Earth systems across a wide range of spatial scales. Investigation of naturally occurring and human-influenced Earth hazards enables prediction of their impacts, and the development …
Unit 4 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 4: Maintaining the internal environment Biology
In order to survive, organisms must be able to maintain system structure and function in the face of changes in their external and internal environments. Changes in temperature and water availability, and the incidence and spread of infectious disease, …
Unit 4 | Biology | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 1: Thermal, nuclear and electrical physics Physics
An understanding of heating processes, nuclear reactions and electricity is essential to appreciate how global energy needs are met. In this unit, students explore the ways physics is used to describe, explain and predict the energy transfers and transformations …
Unit 1 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
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 …
Food and wellbeing: Years 5 and 6 | Year levels | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Outdoor learning: Years 1 and 2
Students at this stage Typically, as students develop their own identities and participate more broadly in everyday life, their movement and recreation options can expand. Gaining knowledge and skills to undertake outdoor activities in more natural settings, …
Outdoor learning: Years 1 and 2 | Year levels | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Outdoor learning: Years 9 and 10
Students at this stage In these years, students typically develop a deeper understanding of, and reasons for, codes of conduct in outdoor recreation activities. They explore more adventurous activities as a way of exploring self and nature, and apply …
Outdoor learning: Years 9 and 10 | Year levels | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Online safety: 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). Children within this stage of learning are naturally curious about understanding the world they live in. Through guided …
Online safety: Foundation to Year 2 | Year levels | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Online safety: Years 3 and 4
Within Years 3 and 4, students develop an increasing awareness about digital systems and how they can be used in home, school and community environments. They collect, manipulate and interpret data to develop an understanding of the characteristics of …
Online safety: Years 3 and 4 | Year levels | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Bridging Unit 4 English as an Additional Language or Dialect
Bridging Unit 4 is aimed at students who are in the late Developing phase of the EAL/D Foundation to Year 10 learning progression. It focuses on responding to and creating connected extended texts in personal, social, community and workplace contexts …
Bridging Unit 4 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 1 General Mathematics
This unit has three topics: ‘Consumer arithmetic’, ‘Algebra and matrices’, and ‘Shape and measurement’. ‘Consumer arithmetic’ reviews the concepts of rate and percentage change in the context of earning and managing money, and provides a fertile ground …
Unit 1 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Consumer and financial literacy: Intercultural understanding
The Intercultural Understanding capability has a role in developing consumer and financial literacy in young people. Intercultural understanding is an essential part of living and interacting with others in the diverse world of the 21st century. It assists …
Consumer and financial literacy: Intercultural understanding | General capabilities | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources