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Year 8 English

The English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of language, literature and literacy. Teaching and learning programs should balance and integrate all three strands. Together, the strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding …

Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

Year 8 Civics and Citizenship

The Year 8 curriculum provides a study of the responsibilities and freedoms of citizens and how Australians can actively participate in their democracy. Students consider how laws are made and the types of laws used in Australia. Students also examine …

Year 8 | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Year 8 Geography

There are two units of study in the Year 8 curriculum for Geography: ‘Landforms and landscapes’ and ‘Changing nations’. ‘Landforms and landscapes’ focuses on investigating geomorphology through a study of landscapes and their landforms. This unit examines …

Year 8 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Year 8 Economics and Business

The Year 8 curriculum gives students the opportunity to further develop their understanding of economics and business concepts by exploring the ways markets – including traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander markets – work within Australia, …

Year 8 | Economics and Business | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Year 8 History

The ancient to the modern world The Year 8 curriculum provides a study of history from the end of the ancient period to the beginning of the modern period, c.650– 1750 AD (CE). This was when major civilisations around the world came into contact with …

Year 8 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACMNA051

explaining why all numbers that end in the digits 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8 are even and that numbers ending in 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 are odd

Year 8 Science

The science inquiry skills and science as a human endeavour strands are described across a two-year band. In their planning, schools and teachers refer to the expectations outlined in the achievement standard and also to the content of the science understanding …

Year 8 | Science | F-10 curriculum

Year 1 English

The English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of language, literature and literacy. Teaching and learning programs should balance and integrate all three strands. Together, the strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding …

Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

Year 1 Science

The science inquiry skills and science as a human endeavour strands are described across a two-year band. In their planning, schools and teachers refer to the expectations outlined in the achievement standard and also to the content of the science understanding …

Year 1 | Science | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACMMG164

defining and identifying the relationships between alternate, corresponding and co-interior angles for a pair of parallel lines cut by a transversal

Year 1 HASS

How my world is different from the past and can change in the future The Year 1 curriculum provides a study of the recent past, the present and the near future within the context of the student’s own world. Students are given opportunities to explore …

Year 1 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Year 8 Mathematics

The proficiency strands understanding, fluency, problem-solving and reasoning are an integral part of mathematics content across the three content strands: number and algebra, measurement and geometry, and statistics and probability. The proficiencies …

Year 8 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACMNA238

solving problems using the fact that the product of the gradients of perpendicular lines is –1 and conversely that if the product of the gradients of two lines is –1 then they are perpendicular

General capabilities

The general capabilities play a significant role in the Australian Curriculum in equipping young Australians to live and work successfully in the twenty-first century. In the Australian Curriculum, capability encompasses knowledge, skills, behaviours …

General capabilities | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACMNA055

combining knowledge of addition and subtraction facts and partitioning to aid computation (for example 57 + 19 = 57 + 20 – 1)

Elaboration (1) ACMSP204

understanding that probabilities range between 0 to 1 and that calculating the probability of an event allows the probability of its complement to be found

Year 1 Mathematics

The proficiency strands understanding, fluency, problem-solving and reasoning are an integral part of mathematics content across the three content strands: number and algebra, measurement and geometry, and statistics and probability. The proficiencies …

Year 1 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACMSP170

using ordered stem-and-leaf plots to record and display numerical data collected in a class investigation, such as constructing a class plot of height in centimetres on a shared stem-and-leaf plot for which the stems 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 have been …

Achievement Standard Mathematics Year 5

By the end of Year 5, students solve simple problems involving the four operations using a range of strategies. They check the reasonableness of answers using estimation and rounding. Students identify and describe factors and multiples. They identify …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 5 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum

Structure Mathematics

The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics is organised around the interaction of three content strands and four proficiency strands. The content strands are number and algebra, measurement and geometry, and statistics and probability. They describe what …

Structure | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum

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