Sustainability - Years 1 and 2
Students develop the knowledge, skills, values and world views necessary to contribute to more sustainable patterns of living. Actions for a more sustainable future reflect values of care, respect and responsibility, and require us to explore and understand …
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Sustainability - Years 1 and 2
All life forms, including human life, are connected through ecosystems on which they depend for their wellbeing and survival.
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English - Years 1 and 2
Discuss how authors create characters using language and images - ACELT1581 Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with students' own experiences - ACELT1582 Understand …
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English - Years 1 and 2
Discuss how authors create characters using language and images - ACELT1581 Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with students' own experiences - ACELT1582 Understand …
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English - Years 1 and 2
Understand that there are different ways of asking for information, making offers and giving commands - ACELA1446 Understand the use of vocabulary in everyday contexts as well as a growing number of school contexts, including appropriate use of formal …
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English - Years 1 and 2
Understand that language varies when people take on different roles in social and classroom interactions and how the use of key interpersonal language resources varies depending on context - ACELA1461
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School Projects: An Overview
School projects fell into one of two categories: pre-existing, well-tried projects with a defined outcome original projects, designed to appeal to the interests of students or to respond to a particular school or local context. Pre-existing projects …
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Multiplicative strategies description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly able to use multiplicative strategies in computation. The coordination of units multiplicatively involves using the values of one unit applied to each of the units of the other, the multiplier. …
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Introduction
Science, Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and STEM education have become the focus of considerable political, industry and media commentary. Widespread concern about Australia’s performance in STEM disciplines and take-up of STEM careers …
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Health and Physical Education - Satisfactory - Years 1 and 2
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can describe physical changes that occur as they age, and can identify relationships that change over time (WS3). They can identify physical and cognitive strengths and make connections between personal …
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Pdf document
STEM connections report
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Report Findings: Benefits & Challenges
Many teachers commented on the unanticipated benefits for their students from their involvement in the STEM Connections project. The development of general capabilities, such as Critical and Creative Thinking, and Personal and Social Capability, was overwhelmingly …
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Comparing units (ratios, rates and proportion) description
This sub-element addresses comparing units in ratios, rates and proportions. A ratio describes a situation in comparative terms, and a proportion is taken to mean when this comparison is used to describe a related situation in the same comparative terms. …
Comparing units (ratios, rates and proportion) | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Interpreting fractions description
This sub-element emphasises the development of the fraction concept and the size of fractions rather than the development of procedures or algorithmic skills. Understanding the size of a fraction is an indicator of the depth of a student’s understanding …
Interpreting fractions | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Report Findings: Qualitative Data
Participating schools were asked to report against the project aims as part of their evaluation. This section provides a summary of their responses and outlines additional benefits of the project.
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STEM in the Australian Curriculum
STEM is addressed in the Australian Curriculum through the learning areas of Science, Technologies and Mathematics, and through general capabilities, particularly Numeracy, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability, and Critical and Creative …
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Conclusions
In general, this project highlighted the strong and natural links between the Australian Curriculum: Science, Mathematics and Technologies. ACARA’s STEM Connections project was well-received by participating schools, with the majority of students and …
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Digital Technologies - Foundation to Year 2
By the end of Year 2 students: Representation of data Recognise and explore patterns in data and represent data as pictures, symbols and diagrams (ACTDIK002)
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Ethical Understanding - Years 1 and 2
Reasoning in decision making and actions identify examples from stories and experiences that show ways people make decisions about their actions discuss how people make decisions about their actions and offer reasons why people’s decisions differ
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Intercultural Understanding - Years 1 and 2
Recognising culture and developing respect share ideas about self and belonging with peers identify and describe the various groups to which they belong and the ways people act and communicate within them
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