Literacy - Level 4 (Years 5 and 6)
Typically, by the end of Year 6, students: Navigate, read and view learning area texts navigate, read and view subject-specific texts with some challenging features and a range of graphic representations Listen and respond to learning area texts listen …
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Information and Communication Technology Capability - Level 4 (Years 5 and 6)
Typically by the end of Year 6, students: Apply digital information security practices independently apply strategies for determining and protecting the security of digital information and assess the risks associated with online environments Apply …
Information and Communication Technology Capability - Level 4 (Years 5 and 6) | Digital media literacy | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Information and Communication Technology Capability - Level 4 (Years 5 and 6)
Typically by the end of Year 6, students: Apply digital information security practices independently apply strategies for determining and protecting the security of digital information and assess the risks associated with online environments Apply …
Information and Communication Technology Capability - Level 4 (Years 5 and 6) | Informed and safe use of information and devices | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Cherrybrook Technology High School (Years 9 and 10)
Cherrybrook Technology High School is a 7-12 co-educational government school located in Cherrybrook, New South Wales on the Traditional Lands of the Dharug Peoples. In its STEM Connections project, the school chose to address the degradation of it's …
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Health and Physical Education - Years 5 and 6
Year 6 Personal, social and community health Being healthy, safe and active Content descriptions with elaborations Examine how identities are influenced by people and places (ACPPS051) identifying how personal qualities contribute to identities …
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F-6/7 Humanities and Social Sciences - Years 5 and 6
why people have different views on the issue, and developing a class response to it Economics and business Content descriptions with elaborations The difference between needs and wants and why choices need to be made about how limited resources …
F-6/7 Humanities and Social Sciences - Years 5 and 6 | Food and wellbeing dimensions | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Critical and Creative Thinking - Level 4 (Years 5 and 6)
Typically, by the end of Year 6, students: Pose questions pose questions to clarify and interpret information and probe for causes and consequences Imagine possibilities and connect ideas combine ideas in a variety of ways and from a range of sources …
Critical and Creative Thinking - Level 4 (Years 5 and 6) | Responsibility and enterprise | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Personal and Social Capability - Level 4 (Years 5 and 6)
Typically, by the end of Year 6, students: Work independently and show initiative assess the value of working independently, and taking initiative to do so where appropriate Become confident, resilient and adaptable devise strategies and formulate …
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Why we shouldn’t go to school 6 days a week – AT
Students learnt persuasive writing techniques and how to present opinions, thoughts and argue a case in a short text. Students examined the features of persuasive texts, as well as paragraphing, sequencing and common grammatical structures and vocabulary …
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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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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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Geography - Satisfactory - Year 9
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can analyse the interconnections between people and environments. Through an examination of the relationships between biomes and food scarcity (WS1), and trading patterns (WS2), and between human and …
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History - Satisfactory - Year 9
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can refer to key events and the actions of individuals and groups to explain patterns of change and continuity over time (WS1, WS2, WS3, WS4, WS5, WS6, WS7). The student analyses the causes and effects …
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Science - Satisfactory - Year 9
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can explain chemical processes (WS1, WS2) and natural radioactivity (WS3) in terms of atoms and energy transfers and describe examples of important chemical reactions (WS1, WS2, WS4). The student describes …
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F-6/7 Humanities and Social Sciences - Years 5 and 6
Year 5 Knowledge and understanding (Geography sub-strand) Content descriptions with elaborations: The influence of people on the environmental characteristics of places in Europe and North America and the location of their major countries in relation …
F-6/7 Humanities and Social Sciences - Years 5 and 6 | Food and fibre dimensions | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Information and Communication Technology Capability - Level 4 (Years 5 and 6)
Typically, by the end of Year 6, students: Recognise intellectual property identify the legal obligations regarding the ownership and use of digital products and apply some referencing conventions Apply digital information security practices independently …
Information and Communication Technology Capability - Level 4 (Years 5 and 6) | Responsibility and enterprise | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Critical and Creative Thinking - Level 4 (Years 5 and 6)
Typically by the end of Year 6, students: Identify and clarify information and ideas identify and clarify relevant information and prioritise ideas Organise and process information analyse, condense and combine relevant information from multiple sources Consider …
Critical and Creative Thinking - Level 4 (Years 5 and 6) | Digital media literacy | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Critical and Creative Thinking - Level 4 (Years 5 and 6)
Typically by the end of Year 6, students: Identify and clarify information and ideas identify and clarify relevant information and prioritise ideas Organise and process information analyse, condense and combine relevant information from multiple sources Consider …
Critical and Creative Thinking - Level 4 (Years 5 and 6) | Informed and safe use of information and devices | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
References & Appendices
Australian Curriculum and Assessment Reporting Authority (ACARA) F–10 Curriculum. www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/mathematics/curriculum/f-10 (viewed November 2014) www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/science/curriculum/f-10 (viewed November 2014)www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/technologies/design-and-technologies/curriculum/f-10 (viewed …
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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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