Design and Technologies - Years 7 and 8
Technologies contexts By the end of Year 8 students will have had the opportunity to create designed solutions addressing the four technologies contexts below. Engineering principles and systems Analyse how motion, force and energy are used to manipulate …
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Critical and Creative Thinking - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically, by the end of Year 8, students: Pose questions pose questions to probe assumptions and investigate complex issues Imagine possibilities and connect ideas draw parallels between known and new ideas to create new ways of achieving goals Consider …
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Personal and Social Capability - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically, by the end of Year 8, students: Work independently and show initiative critique their effectiveness in working independently by identifying enablers and barriers to achieving goals Become confident, resilient and adaptable assess, adapt …
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Intercultural Understanding - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically by the end of Year 8, students: Investigate culture and cultural identity explain ways that cultural groups and identities change over time and in different contexts Explore and compare cultural knowledge, beliefs and practices analyse the …
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Intercultural Understanding - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically by the end of Year 8, students: Investigate culture and cultural identity explain ways that cultural groups and identities change over time and in different contexts Explore and compare cultural knowledge, beliefs and practices analyse the …
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Economics and Business - Years 7 and 8
Year 7 Knowledge and understanding Content descriptions with elaborations: The ways consumers and producers interact and respond to each other in the market (ACHEK017) investigating how consumers rely on businesses to meet their needs and wants examining …
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Critical and Creative Thinking - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically by the end of Year 8, students: Identify and clarify information and ideas clarify information and ideas from texts or images when exploring challenging issues Organise and process information critically analyse information and evidence …
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Critical and Creative Thinking - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically by the end of Year 8, students: Identify and clarify information and ideas clarify information and ideas from texts or images when exploring challenging issues Organise and process information critically analyse information and evidence …
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Mathematics - Years 7 and 8
Year 7 Statistics and probability Data representation and interpretation Content descriptions with elaborations: Identify and investigate issues involving numerical data collected from primary and secondary sources (ACMSP169) obtaining secondary …
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Geography - Years 7 and 8
Year 7 Geographical knowledge and understanding Water in the world Content descriptions with elaborations: The classification of environmental resources and the forms that water takes as a resource (ACHGK037) classifying resources into renewable, …
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Literacy - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically, by the end of Year 8, students: Navigate, read and view learning area texts navigate, read and view a variety of challenging subject-specific texts with a wide range of graphic representations Listen and respond to learning area texts listen …
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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically, by the end of Year 8, students: Recognise intellectual property apply practices that comply with legal obligations regarding the ownership and use of digital products resources Apply digital information security practices independently …
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8) | Multimedia dimensions | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Science - Years 7 and 8
Year 7 Science Understanding Biological sciences Content description with elaborations: Interactions between organisms, including the effects of human activities can be represented by food chains and food webs (ACSSU112) constructing and interpreting …
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Design and Technologies - Years 7 and 8
Year 7 Knowledge and understanding Content descriptions with elaborations: Investigate the ways in which products, services and environments evolve locally, regionally and globally and how competing factors including social, ethical, sustainability …
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Health and Physical Education - Years 7 and 8
Year 7 and 8 Personal, social and community health Being healthy, safe and active Content descriptions with elaborations Investigate the impact of transition and change on identities (ACPPS070) examining the impact of physical changes on gender, …
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Design and Technologies - Years 7 and 8
Year 7 and 8 Design and technologies knowledge and understanding Content descriptions with elaborations Investigate the ways in which products, services and environments evolve locally, regionally and globally and how competing factors including social, …
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Scripted: Pyramus and Thisbe - ABOVE
Students were engaged in a unit of work on Elizabethan drama using Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as the key text for a performance-based assessment. They studied style and the acting conventions of the play’s original context. They also learned …
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Scripted: Pyramus and Thisbe - AT
Students were engaged in a unit of work on Elizabethan drama using Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as the key text for a performance-based assessment. They studied style and the acting conventions of the play’s original context. They also learned …
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Digital project: App development - ABOVE
Students collaboratively designed and implemented an app for Year 7 and 8 students. They documented their process using a group wiki including guidelines for using the wiki and managing files, analysis of similar apps, functional and non-functional requirements, …
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Digital project: App development - AT
Students collaboratively designed and implemented an app for Year 7 and 8 students. They documented their process using a group wiki including guidelines for using the wiki and managing files, analysis of similar apps, functional and non-functional requirements, …
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