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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

Structure Civics and Citizenship

The Years 7–10 Australian Curriculum: Civics and Citizenship is organised into two interrelated strands: civics and citizenship knowledge and understanding, and civics and citizenship inquiry and skills. Civics and citizenship knowledge and understanding …

Structure | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

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

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

Achievement standard Mathematics Year 10A

There are no achievement standards for Year 10A in the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. Please refer to the Year 10 Achievement Standards.

Achievement standard | Achievement Standards | Year 10A | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum

Key ideas Science

In the Australian Curriculum: Science, there are six key ideas that represent key aspects of a scientific view of the world and bridge knowledge and understanding across the disciplines of science, as shown Figure 1 below. These are embedded within each …

Key ideas | Science | F-10 curriculum

Structure

The Australian Curriculum is designed to develop successful learners, confident and creative individuals, and active and informed citizens. It is presented as a progression of learning from Foundation - Year 10 that makes clear to teachers, parents, students …

Structure | F-10 curriculum

Rationale History

History is a disciplined process of inquiry into the past that develops students’ curiosity and imagination. Awareness of history is an essential characteristic of any society, and historical knowledge is fundamental to understanding ourselves and others. …

Rationale | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Structure History

The Australian Curriculum: History is organised into two interrelated strands: historical knowledge and understanding and historical inquiry and skills. Historical knowledge and understanding strand This strand includes personal, family, local, state …

Structure | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (7) ACELY1784

speaking so that the student can be heard and understood

Elaboration (7) ACELY1650

discussing and sequencing events in stories

Elaboration (7) ACELY1789

understanding how to disagree with a point of view or offer an alternative idea courteously

Elaboration (7) ACELY1692

inferring meaning from the ways communication occurs in digital environments including the interplay between words, images, and sounds

Elaboration (7) ACSHE083

investigating how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ traditional ecological and zoological knowledge informs sustainable harvesting practices of certain species, such as dugongs and turtles (OI.2, OI.6)

Elaboration (7) ACSHE098

investigating the development of earthquake measurements from the Chinese invention of the seismograph in the second century

Elaboration (7) ACSHE100

researching the use of methane generators in Indonesia

Elaboration (7) ACSSU112

investigating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' responses to the disruptive interactions of invasive species and their effect on important food webs that many communities are a part of, and depend on, for produce and medicine (OI.2, OI.5, …

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