Understanding units of measurement description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly able to recognise attributes that can be measured and how units of measure are used and calculated. In making the transition from informal to formal units, a student attends to the structure …
Understanding units of measurement | Measurement and geometry | 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 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
Unit 3: Living on Earth - extracting, using and managing Earth resources Earth and Environmental Science
Earth resources are required to sustain life and provide infrastructure for living (for example, food, shelter, medicines, transport, and communication), driving ongoing demand for biotic, mineral and energy resources. In this unit, students explore renewable …
Unit 3 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
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
Outdoor learning: Critical and Creative Thinking
Outdoor learning can develop students’ ability to think logically, critically and creatively in response to a range of issues, ideas and challenges in relation to nature. Students can learn how to critically evaluate evidence related to the outdoors and …
Outdoor learning: Critical and Creative Thinking | General capabilities | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Consumer and financial literacy: Year 9
Young people grow up in diverse circumstances. At age 14 to 15, there is a divergence in young people’s sophistication in relation to financial management attitudes. Unique family circumstances strongly influence young people’s notions of their future …
Consumer and financial literacy: Year 9 | Year levels | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Consumer and financial literacy: Year 10
Young people grow up in diverse circumstances. At age 15 to 16, there is a divergence in young people’s sophistication in relation to financial management attitudes. Unique family circumstances strongly influence young people’s notions of their future …
Consumer and financial literacy: Year 10 | Year levels | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Food and fibre: Years 5 and 6
In Years 5 and 6, students develop their ability to pose questions and solve problems, make informed decisions and act responsibly. Curriculum continues to draw on students’ growing experience of community and the wider world to develop their understanding …
Food and fibre: Years 5 and 6 | Year levels | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
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
Food and wellbeing: Years 9 and 10
In Years 9 and 10, students further develop their ability to maintain personal health and wellbeing and contribute in civic, social and economic ways. Students question and critically analyse social, cultural and political factors that influence health, …
Food and wellbeing: Years 9 and 10 | Year levels | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Years 9 and 10 Health and Physical Education
The Year 9 and 10 curriculum supports students to refine and apply strategies for maintaining a positive outlook and evaluating behavioural expectations in different leisure, social, movement and online situations. Students learn to critically analyse …
Years 9 and 10 | Health and Physical Education | F-10 curriculum
Years 9 and 10 Visual Arts
In Visual Arts, students: build on their awareness of how and why artists, craftspeople and designers realise their ideas through different visual representations, practices, processes and viewpoints refine their personal aesthetic through working …
Years 9 and 10 | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Years 5 and 6 Design and Technologies
Learning in Design and Technologies builds on concepts, skills and processes developed in earlier years, and teachers will revisit, strengthen and extend these as needed. By the end of Year 6, students will have had the opportunity to create designed …
Years 5 and 6 | Design and Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Years 9 and 10 Arabic
The nature of the learners Learners increasingly communicate in Arabic in everyday interactions and in domains beyond the home. They continue to be immersed in Arabic language and culture, making connections and comparisons with other languages and cultures. …
Years 9 and 10 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | Arabic | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Years 9 and 10 French
The nature of the learners Students have prior experience of learning French and bring a range of capabilities, strategies and knowledge that can be applied to new learning. They are expanding the range and nature of their learning experiences and of …
Years 9 and 10 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | French | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Years 7 and 8 German
The nature of the learners These years represent a transition to secondary school. Students in this sequence bring with them an established capability to interact in different situations, to engage with a variety of texts and to communicate with some …
Years 7 and 8 | Years F–10 Sequence | German | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Years 7 and 8 Hindi
The nature of the learners The transition to secondary schooling involves social and academic demands that coincide with a period of maturational and physical change. Learners are adjusting to a new school culture with sharper divisions between curriculum …
Years 7 and 8 | Years F–10 Sequence | Hindi | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Years 7 and 8 Hindi
The nature of the learners Students coming into this pathway are background learners of Hindi with varying degrees of proficiency in the language. All have family and community connections with the language and associated cultures, or with languages …
Years 7 and 8 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | Hindi | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Years 9 and 10 Italian
The nature of the learners At this level, students bring existing knowledge of Italian language and culture and a range of language learning strategies to their learning. They are increasingly aware of the world beyond …
Years 9 and 10 | Years F–10 Sequence | Italian | Languages | F-10 curriculum