Cross-curriculum priorities
The Australian Curriculum gives special attention to three cross-curriculum priorities: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia sustainability. The cross-curriculum priorities are embedded …
Cross-curriculum priorities | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Structure
The Australian Curriculum is designed to develop successful learners, confident and creative individuals, and active and informed citizens. It is presented as a progression of learning from Foundation - Year 10 that makes clear to teachers, parents, students …
Structure | F-10 curriculum
Senior secondary Mathematics subjects
The Senior Secondary Australian Curriculum: Mathematics consists of four subjects in mathematics, with each subject organised into four units. The subjects are differentiated, each focusing on a pathway that will meet the learning needs of a particular …
Senior secondary Mathematics subjects | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure Work Studies
The design, organisation and structure of the Work Studies Years 9–10 curriculum provides flexibility for schools to draw on the interests, capabilities and contexts of their students. It allows schools to accommodate school structures and processes, …
Structure | Work Studies | F-10 curriculum
Rationale Civics and Citizenship
A deep understanding of Australia's federal system of government and the liberal democratic values that underpin it is essential in enabling students to become active and informed citizens who participate in and sustain Australia’s democracy. The Australian …
Rationale | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Structure
The Australian Curriculum: The Arts covers each of the five arts subjects – Dance, Drama, Media Arts, Music, and Visual Arts – across bands of year levels: Foundation to Year 2 Years 3 and 4 Years 5 and 6 Years 7 and 8 Years 9 and 10. The curriculum …
Structure | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Remote learning: Open Access College
Courtney Miels is an educator at Open Access College where she works through distance education with primary age students in remote locations. Open Access College was established in 1991 as an amalgamation of the SA Correspondence School and the School …
Remote learning: Open Access College | Publications | Resources and publications
Key ideas
Overarching idea: Creating preferred futures The Technologies curriculum provides students with opportunities to consider how solutions that are created now will be used in the future. Students will identify the possible benefits and risks of creating …
Key ideas | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
General capabilities
In the Australian Curriculum, general capabilities encompass knowledge, skills, behaviours, and dispositions that, together with curriculum content in each learning area and the cross-curriculum priorities, will enable students to live and work successfully …
General capabilities | Languages | F-10 curriculum
How is the numeracy progression structured?
Elements and sub-elements The National Numeracy Learning Progression has three elements that reflect aspects of numeracy development necessary for successful learners of the F–10 Australian Curriculum and in everyday life. The three elements are: Number …
How is the numeracy progression structured? | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Representation of General capabilities Ancient History
The seven general capabilities of Literacy, Numeracy, Information and Communication technology (ICT) capability, Critical and creative thinking, Personal and social capability, Ethical understanding, and Intercultural understanding are identified where …
Representation of General capabilities | Ancient History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Using the Framework Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages
The Framework is general in its structure and approach because it needs to be applicable to all Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages in Australia, across the full range of language ecologies. As a consequence, curriculum content and …
Using the Framework | Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Remote learning: Game design for outside and inside spaces
With learning being based in the home, it is important that students can still engage with learning that they have co-constructed. This activity of developing and designing an outdoor game demonstrates a student showing agency for their own learning, …
Remote learning: Game design for outside and inside spaces | Publications | Resources and publications
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
Rationale Drama
This rationale complements and extends the rationale for The Arts learning area. Drama is the expression and exploration of personal, cultural and social worlds through role and situation that engages, entertains and challenges. Students create meaning …
Rationale | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Structure Media Arts
Learning in Media Arts Learning in Media Arts involves students learning to engage with communications technologies and cross-disciplinary art forms to design, produce, distribute and interact with a range of print, audio, screen-based or hybrid artworks. …
Structure | Media Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
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
Using the Framework to develop language-specific curricula or programs for Classical languages Framework for Classical Languages
It is intended that the Framework will be used by state and territory jurisdictions to develop language-specific curricula, or by schools and communities to develop teaching and learning programs for Classical languages other than Latin and Classical …
Using the Framework to develop language-specific curricula or programs for Classical languages | Framework for Classical Languages | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Representation of General capabilities Modern History
The seven general capabilities of Literacy, Numeracy, Information and Communication technology (ICT) capability, Critical and creative thinking, Personal and social capability, Ethical understanding, and Intercultural understanding are identified where …
Representation of General capabilities | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure Civics and Citizenship
The Years 7–10 Australian Curriculum: Civics and Citizenship is organised into two interrelated strands: civics and citizenship knowledge and understanding, and civics and citizenship inquiry and skills. Civics and citizenship knowledge and understanding …
Structure | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum