Rationale/Aims Geography
Rationale The study of Geography draws on students’ curiosity about the diversity of the world’s places and their peoples, cultures and environments. It enables students to appreciate the complexity of our world and the diversity of its environments, …
Rationale/Aims | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | 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
Representation of General capabilities Geography
The general capabilities encompass the knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions that, together with the Geography curriculum content and the cross-curriculum priorities, will help students to live and work successfully in the twenty-first century. The …
Representation of General capabilities | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure of English English
Units In Unit 1 students explore how meaning is communicated through the relationships between language, text, purpose, context and audience. This includes how language and texts are shaped by their purpose, the audiences for whom they are intended and …
Structure of English | English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Language table English as an Additional Language or Dialect
Key language skills for EAL/D The key language skills described below provide a focus for language instruction in any unit at students’ point of need and should be taught in context and if relevant. Students should be given the opportunity to develop …
Language table | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure of Essential English Essential English
Units Unit 1 focuses on students comprehending and responding to the ideas and information presented in texts drawn from a range of contexts. Students are taught a variety of strategies to assist comprehension. They read, view and listen to texts to connect, …
Structure of Essential English | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure of Literature Literature
Units Unit 1 develops students’ knowledge and understanding of different ways of reading and creating literary texts drawn from a widening range of historical, social, cultural and personal contexts. Students analyse the relationships between language, …
Structure of Literature | Literature | English | 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 English as an Additional Language or Dialect English as an Additional Language or Dialect
Units 1–4 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. The relationship …
Structure of English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMEM174
use technology and a recurrence relation to model a reducing balance loan
ACMEM174 | Content Descriptions | Unit 4 | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMGM057
model a linear relationship by fitting a least-squares line to the data
ACMGM057 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMGM058
use a residual plot to assess the appropriateness of fitting a linear model to the data
ACMGM058 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMMM143
use a Bernoulli random variable as a model for two-outcome situations
ACMMM143 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Mathematical Methods | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSPH076
A wave model explains a wide range of light-related phenomena including reflection, refraction, total internal reflection, dispersion, diffraction and interference; a transverse wave model is required to explain polarisation
ACSPH076 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMGM042
interpret, in context, the slope and intercept of a straight-line graph used to model and analyse a practical situation
ACMGM042 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMGM092
fit a least-squares line to model long-term trends in time series data.
ACMGM092 | Content Descriptions | Unit 4 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMMM138
recognise uniform discrete random variables and use them to model random phenomena with equally likely outcomes
ACMMM138 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Mathematical Methods | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMMM146
use Bernoulli random variables and associated probabilities to model data and solve practical problems.
ACMMM146 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Mathematical Methods | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSPH017
The kinetic particle model describes matter as consisting of particles in constant motion, except at absolute zero
ACSPH017 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSPH071
The mechanical wave model can be used to explain phenomena related to reflection and refraction (for example, echoes, seismic phenomena)
ACSPH071 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum