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
Rationale History
History is a disciplined process of inquiry into the past that develops students’ curiosity and imagination. Awareness of history is an essential characteristic of any society, and historical knowledge is fundamental to understanding ourselves and others. …
Rationale | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Structure of Biology Biology
Units Biology is the study of the fascinating diversity of life as it has evolved and as it interacts and functions. Investigation of biological systems and their interactions, from cellular processes to ecosystem dynamics, has led to biological knowledge …
Structure of Biology | Biology | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure of Chemistry Chemistry
Units In Chemistry, students develop their understanding of chemical systems, and how models of matter and energy transfers and transformations can be used to describe, explain and predict chemical structures, properties and reactions. There are four …
Structure of Chemistry | Chemistry | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure of Earth and Environmental Science Earth and Environmental Science
Units In Earth and Environmental Science, students develop their understanding of the ways in which interactions between Earth systems influence Earth processes, environments and resources. There are four units: Unit 1: Introduction to Earth systems Unit …
Structure of Earth and Environmental Science | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure of Physics Physics
Units In Physics, students develop their understanding of the core concepts, models and theories that describe, explain and predict physical phenomena. There are four units: Unit 1: Thermal, nuclear and electrical physics Unit 2: Linear motion and waves Unit …
Structure of Physics | Physics | Science | Senior secondary 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
Structure of General Mathematics General Mathematics
General Mathematics is organised into four units. The topics in each unit broaden students’ mathematical experience and provide different scenarios for incorporating mathematical arguments and problem solving. The units provide a blending of algebraic, …
Structure of General Mathematics | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure English
Strands, sub-strands and threads The Australian Curriculum: English Foundation to Year 10 is organised into three interrelated strands that support students' growing understanding and use of Standard Australian English (English). Each strand interacts …
Structure | English | 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
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
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
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
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
Learner diversity and learner pathways Auslan
Pathways There is diversity in the background of learners of Auslan. Learners may be deaf, hard of hearing or hearing, and may be learning Auslan as a first language or as a second language. To cater for distinct learner backgrounds, the Auslan curriculum …
Learner diversity and learner pathways | Auslan | Languages | F-10 curriculum
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
What is numeracy?
Numeracy is fundamental to a student’s ability to learn at school and to engage productively in society. In the Australian Curriculum, students become numerate as they develop the knowledge and skills to use mathematics confidently across learning areas …
What is numeracy? | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Structure Framework for Classical Languages
Sequences of learning To reflect current custom, practice and the needs of learners in Australian schools, the Framework has been developed for Years 7–10. Strands, sub-strands and threads The following interrelated strands are derived from the …
Structure | Framework for Classical Languages | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Rationale Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages
Nganki - ka Kardu thipmam - wa! I Murrinh warda ngatha. The nganthin ngumpanngerren. I ku ngakumarl, da ngarra ngugumingki wurran. The da matha nganthin ngala i da bere matha wangu ngumamath ngumpan ngarra magulkul nganki. We are black people. …
Rationale | Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Rationale Work Studies
Work has intrinsic value and is a fundamental part of everyday life. It fosters human dignity, independence and a sense of personal worth. It is recognised as a right of all people. In an increasingly globalised world, the nature of work …
Rationale | Work Studies | F-10 curriculum