Unit 2: Ancient Societies Ancient History
This unit involves an investigation of how people lived in the ancient world through an examination of the evidence of the social, political and economic institutions and structures of TWO societies. Students will also study ONE significant feature of …
Unit 2: Ancient Societies | Ancient History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
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
Unit 4: Structure, synthesis and design Chemistry
Current and future applications of chemistry include the development of specialised techniques to create, or synthesise, new substances to meet the specific needs of society, including pharmaceuticals, fuels, polymers and nanomaterials. In this unit, …
Unit 4 | Chemistry | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 3: Heredity and continuity of life Biology
Heredity is an important biological principle as it explains why offspring (cells or organisms) resemble their parent cell or organism. Organisms require cellular division and differentiation for growth, development, repair and sexual reproduction. In …
Unit 3 | Biology | 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 2 English as an Additional Language or Dialect
Unit 2 focuses on analysing and evaluating perspectives and attitudes presented in texts and creating extended texts for a range of contexts. SAE language skills for effective communication in an expanding range of contexts are consolidated. The use of …
Unit 2 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 3 English as an Additional Language or Dialect
Unit 3 focuses on analysing how language choices are used to achieve different purposes and effects in a range of contexts. SAE language skills are developed so that they can be used to describe, inform, express a point of view and persuade for different …
Unit 3 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 3: Equilibrium, acids and redox reactions Chemistry
The idea of reversibility of reaction is vital in a variety of chemical systems at different scales, ranging from the processes that release carbon dioxide into our atmosphere to the reactions of ions within individual cells in our bodies. Processes that …
Unit 3 | Chemistry | 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
Unit 3: Gravity and electromagnetism Physics
Field theories have enabled physicists to explain a vast array of natural phenomena and have contributed to the development of technologies that have changed the world, including electrical power generation and distribution systems, artificial satellites …
Unit 3 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 4: Revolutions in modern physics Physics
The development of quantum theory and the theory of relativity fundamentally changed our understanding of how nature operates and led to the development of a wide range of new technologies, including technologies that revolutionised the storage, processing …
Unit 4 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 3: Land cover transformations Geography
This unit focuses on the changing biophysical cover of the earth’s surface, its impact on global climate and biodiversity, and the creation of anthropogenic biomes. In doing so, it examines the processes causing change in the earth’s land cover. These …
Unit 3: Land cover transformations | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Bridging Unit 3 English as an Additional Language or Dialect
Bridging Unit 3 is aimed at students who are in the Developing phase of the EAL/D Foundation to Year 10 learning progression. It focuses on responding to and creating extended texts in familiar contexts in SAE. By using the language modes, students engage …
Bridging Unit 3 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 1: Understanding the Modern World Modern History
This unit examines developments of significance in the modern era, including the ideas that inspired them and their far-reaching consequences. Students examine TWO topics, including at least ONE study of a development or turning point that has helped …
Unit 1: Understanding the Modern World | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 1 English as an Additional Language or Dialect
Unit 1 focuses on investigating how language and culture are interrelated and expressed in a range of contexts. A variety of oral, written and multimodal texts are used to develop understanding of text structures and language features. Students explore …
Unit 1 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 1: Chemical fundamentals: structure, properties and reactions Chemistry
Chemists design and produce a vast range of materials for many purposes, including for fuels, cosmetics, building materials and pharmaceuticals. As the science of chemistry has developed over time, there has been an increasing realisation that the properties …
Unit 1 | Chemistry | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 2: Cells and multicellular organisms Biology
The cell is the basic unit of life. Although cell structure and function are very diverse, all cells possess some common features: all prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells need to exchange materials with their immediate external environment in order to maintain …
Unit 2 | Biology | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 2: Sustainable places Geography
This unit examines the economic, social and environmental sustainability of places. While all places are subject to changes produced by economic, demographic, social, political and environmental processes, the outcomes of these processes vary depending …
Unit 2: Sustainable places | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 2: Molecular interactions and reactions Chemistry
In this unit, students develop their understanding of the physical and chemical properties of materials including gases, water and aqueous solutions, acids and bases. Students explore the characteristic properties of water that make it essential for physical, …
Unit 2 | Chemistry | Science | Senior secondary curriculum