Implications for teaching, assessing and reporting

The Australian Curriculum defines a solid foundation in knowledge, understanding, skills and values for all Australian children. It recognises that children are different: they develop at different rates, have different learning preferences and areas …

Implications for teaching, assessing and reporting | F-10 curriculum

Structure HASS

The Australian Curriculum: Humanities and Social Sciences may be implemented as a combined F–6 program or as an F–7 program. The F–6/7 curriculum is organised into two interrelated strands: knowledge and understanding and inquiry and skills. Knowledge …

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

Structure English

Strands, sub-strands and threads The Australian Curriculum: English Foundation to Year 10 is organised into three interrelated strands that support students' growing understanding and use of Standard Australian English (English). Each strand interacts …

Structure | English | F-10 curriculum

Year 4 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 4 | English | F-10 curriculum

Foundation Year Science

The Science content includes the three strands of science understanding, science inquiry skills and science as a human endeavour. The three strands of the curriculum are interrelated and their content is taught in an integrated way. The order and detail …

Foundation Year | Science | F-10 curriculum

Year 4 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 4 | Science | F-10 curriculum

Year 5 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 5 | Science | F-10 curriculum

Year 6 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 6 | Science | 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

Key ideas Mathematics

In Mathematics, the key ideas are the proficiency strands of understanding, fluency, problem-solving and reasoning. The proficiency strands describe the actions in which students can engage when learning and using the content. While not all proficiency …

Key ideas | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum

ACMMG163

Identify corresponding, alternate and co-interior angles when two straight lines are crossed by a transversal

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACMMG163 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum

Key ideas

Strands Content descriptions in each arts subject reflect the interrelated strands of making and responding. making includes learning about and using knowledge, skills, techniques, processes, materials and technologies to explore arts practices and make …

Key ideas | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Introduction

In the Australian Curriculum, The Arts is a learning area that draws together related but distinct art forms. While these art forms have close relationships and are often used in interrelated ways, each involves different approaches to arts practices …

Introduction | The Arts | 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

Year 9 Economics and Business

The Year 9 curriculum gives students the opportunity to further develop their understanding of economics and business concepts by exploring the interactions within the global economy. Students are introduced to the concept of an ‘economy’ and explore …

Year 9 | Economics and Business | Humanities and Social Sciences | 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

Achievement Standard Science Year 9

By the end of Year 9, students explain chemical processes and natural radioactivity in terms of atoms and energy transfers and describe examples of important chemical reactions. They describe models of energy transfer and apply these to explain phenomena. …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 9 | Science | F-10 curriculum

Year 7 Economics and Business

The Year 7 curriculum gives students the opportunity to further develop their understanding of economics and business concepts by exploring what it means to be a consumer, a worker and a producer in the market, and the relationships between these groups. …

Year 7 | Economics and Business | 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 10 Economics and Business

The Year 10 curriculum gives students the opportunity to further develop their understanding of economics and business concepts by considering Australia’s economic performance and standard of living. The ways governments manage economic performance to …

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