Units 1 and 2 Essential Mathematics Achievement Standard
demonstrates knowledge of concepts of measurement, financial mathematics and statistics in routine and non-routine problems in a variety of contexts selects and applies techniques in measurement, financial mathematics and statistics to solve routine …
Units 1 and 2 | Achievement Standards | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Units 1 and 2 General Mathematics Achievement Standard
demonstrates knowledge of concepts of consumer arithmetic, algebra and matrices, linear equations, geometry and trigonometry, and statistics, in routine and non-routine problems in a variety of contexts selects and applies techniques in mathematics and …
Units 1 and 2 | Achievement standards | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Units 1 and 2 Mathematical Methods Achievement Standard
demonstrates knowledge of concepts of functions, calculus and statistics in routine and non-routine problems in a variety of contexts selects and applies techniques in functions, calculus and statistics to solve routine and non-routine problems in a …
Units 1 and 2 | Achievement standards | Mathematical Methods | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Units 1 and 2 Specialist Mathematics Achievement Standard
demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the concepts of vectors, combinatorics, geometry, matrices, trigonometry and complex numbers in routine and non-routine problems in a variety of contexts synthesises information to select and apply techniques …
Units 1 and 2 | Achievement standards | Specialist Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Units 1 and 2 Biology Achievement Standard
For the biological systems studied, the student: analyses how system components function and are interrelated at micro and macro levels analyses how flows of matter and transfers and transformations of energy are related in system processes explains …
Units 1 and 2 | Achievement standards | Biology | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Units 1 and 2 Chemistry Achievement Standard
For the chemical systems studied, the student: analyses how structure, bond strength and energy transfers and transformations are interrelated in chemical systems analyses how a range of factors affect atomic or molecular interactions and change the …
Units 1 and 2 | Achievement standards | Chemistry | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Units 1 and 2 Earth and Environmental Science Achievement Standard
For the Earth systems studied, the student: analyses how Earth systems and their components are inter-related across a range of spatial scales, and how they have changed over time analyses how cycling of matter and transfers and transformations of energy …
Units 1 and 2 | Achievement standards | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Units 1 and 2 Physics Achievement Standard
For the physical systems studied, the student: analyses physical phenomena in complex scenarios qualitatively and quantitatively analyses the relationships between components and properties of physical systems qualitatively and quantitatively explains …
Units 1 and 2 | Achievement standards | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Units 1 and 2 Ancient History Achievement Standard
evaluates the significance of issues associated with the use of sources and evidence for the ancient world evaluates key features and structures of ancient societies and how they shaped people’s lives and actions in the past assesses the significance …
Units 1 and 2 | Achievement standards | Ancient History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Units 1 and 2 Geography Achievement Standard
The student: analyses how processes of change have spatial consequences in places and environments at a range of scales, and explains the role of context analyses interconnections between people, places and environments, and their geographical significance …
Units 1 and 2 | Achievement standards | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Units 1 and 2 Modern History Achievement Standard
evaluates the extent of change and continuity how it affected the lives of individuals and groups in different times and places evaluates the important causes of change and continuity in particular contexts analyses how different perspectives and responses …
Units 1 and 2 | Achievement standards | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 3: Modern Nations in the 20th century Modern History
This unit examines the characteristics of modern nations in the 20th century; the crises that confronted nations, their responses to these crises and the different paths nations have taken to fulfil their goals. Students study the characteristics of TWO …
Unit 3: Modern Nations in the 20th century | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 2: Movements for Change in the 20th century Modern History
This unit examines significant movements for change in the 20th century that led to change in society, including people’s attitudes and circumstances. These movements draw on the major ideas described in Unit 1, have been closely connected with democratic …
Unit 2: Movements for Change in the 20th century | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 4: The Modern World since 1945 Modern History
This unit examines some significant and distinctive features of the modern world within the period 1945 – 2010, in order to build students’ understanding of the contemporary world - that is, why we are here at this point in time. These include changes …
Unit 4: The Modern World since 1945 | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 3 Specialist Mathematics
Unit 3 of Specialist Mathematics contains three topics: ‘Vectors in three dimensions’, ‘Complex numbers’ and ‘Functions and sketching graphs’. The study of vectors was introduced in Unit 1 with a focus on vectors in two-dimensional space. In this unit, …
Unit 3 | Specialist Mathematics | Mathematics | 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 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
Senior secondary English subjects
The senior secondary Australian Curriculum for English is presented in four subjects that share common features. These include the continuing development of students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in listening, speaking, reading, viewing and writing. …
Senior secondary English subjects | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 1: Biodiversity and the interconnectedness of life Biology
The current view of the biosphere as a dynamic system composed of Earth’s diverse, interrelated and interacting ecosystems developed from the work of eighteenth and nineteenth century naturalists, who collected, classified, measured and mapped the distribution …
Unit 1 | Biology | 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