Outdoor learning: F-6/7 Humanities and Social Sciences
As part of Humanities and Social Sciences, outdoor learning offers content and context for learning, in particular through geography and/or environmental studies. In Humanities and Social Sciences, environments include natural, built and social. Built …
Outdoor learning: F-6/7 Humanities and Social Sciences | Subjects | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Unit 3 General Mathematics
This unit has three topics: ‘Bivariate data analysis’, ‘Growth and decay in sequences’ and ‘Graphs and networks’. ‘Bivariate data analysis’ introduces students to some methods for identifying, analysing and describing associations between pairs of variables, …
Unit 3 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 1: Chemical fundamentals: structure, properties and reactions Chemistry
Chemists design and produce a vast range of materials for many purposes, including for fuels, cosmetics, building materials and pharmaceuticals. As the science of chemistry has developed over time, there has been an increasing realisation that the properties …
Unit 1 | Chemistry | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Rationale Music
This rationale complements and extends the rationale for The Arts learning area. Music is uniquely an aural art form. The essential nature of music is abstract. Music encompasses existing sounds that are selected and shaped, new sounds created by composers …
Rationale | Music | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Mathematics Year 1
By the end of Year 1, students describe number sequences resulting from skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s. They identify representations of one half. They recognise Australian coins according to their value. Students explain time durations. They describe …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 1 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Introduction Auslan
As a native user of Auslan, and as an advocate for the language and for the Deaf community, I am thrilled to see a national curriculum in Auslan come to fruition. For the first time, deaf children will have access to a formal first language learner pathway …
Introduction | Auslan | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard History Year 9
By the end of Year 9, students refer to key events and the actions of individuals and groups to explain patterns of change and continuity over time. They analyse the causes and effects of events and developments and make judgements about their importance. …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 9 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
HASS Achievement Standard HASS Year 1
By the end of Year 1, students identify and describe important dates and changes in their own lives. They explain how some aspects of daily life have changed over recent time while others have remained the same. They identify and describe the features …
HASS Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 1 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Outdoor learning: Years 7 and 8
Students at this stage Typically, students in Years 7 and 8 develop skills and knowledge to undertake more extended journeys in natural environments, and develop skills of interdependence within the group. They develop higher levels of skill and have …
Outdoor learning: Years 7 and 8 | Year levels | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Online safety: Years 5 and 6
In Years 5 and 6, students learn to balance the benefits offered by technology with a critical awareness of their own online behaviour and the online behaviour of others. They begin to explore strategies for protecting the rights of others online including …
Online safety: Years 5 and 6 | Year levels | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
ACSBL023
Species or populations, including those of microorganisms, fill specific ecological niches; the competitive exclusion principle postulates that no two species can occupy the same niche in the same environment for an extended period of time
ACSBL023 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Biology | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSES029
The diversification and proliferation of living organisms over time (for example, increases in marine animals in the Cambrian), and the catastrophic collapse of ecosystems (for example, the mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous) can be inferred …
ACSES029 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSES076
Renewable resources are those that are typically replenished at time scales of years to decades and include harvestable resources (for example, water, biota and some energy resources) and services (for example, ecosystem services)
ACSES076 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSES104
Natural processes (for example, oceanic circulation, orbitally-induced solar radiation fluctuations, the plate tectonic supercycle) and human activities contribute to global climate changes that are evident at a variety of time scales
ACSES104 | Content Descriptions | Unit 4 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSES107
Geological, prehistorical and historical records provide evidence (for example, fossils, pollen grains, ice core data, isotopic ratios, indigenous art sites) that climate change has affected different regions and species differently over time
ACSES107 | Content Descriptions | Unit 4 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHAH052
The historical context of the representations and interpretations of the destruction of Troy and why these have changed over time, for example maritime archaeology; the importance of the discovery of the Hittite foreign office records at Hattusa; excavations …
ACHAH052 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1: Investigating the Ancient World | Ancient History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHAH082
The historical context of the interpretations and representations of the Celts and why these have changed over time, for example Ancient Roman interpretations, modern imperialist and nationalistic propaganda, Celtic cultural legacy (art, music, language …
ACHAH082 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1: Investigating the Ancient World | Ancient History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHAH345
Changing interpretations over time of key events in The Peloponnesian War, for example Cornford’s and de Ste. Croix’s consideration of economic factors as a cause of the Peloponnesian War
ACHAH345 | Content Descriptions | Unit 4: Reconstructing the Ancient World | Ancient History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHMH083
The key developments over time in the independent country, for example increasing urbanisation, and matters related to governance (single party or democratic representation), internal security, social equality, and independent foreign policy
ACHMH083 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2: Movements for Change in the 20th century | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Elaboration (4) ACELA1523
knowing that there are various ways in English to refer to future time, for example auxiliary ‘will’, as in ‘She will call you tomorrow’; present tense, as in ‘Tomorrow I leave for Hobart’; and adverbials of time, as …
Elaboration (4) | ACELA1523 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum