Outdoor learning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures priority can give students opportunities to appreciate and celebrate the beauty of the world’s oldest continuous living cultures. Students can gain a deeper understanding of the significance …
Outdoor learning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures | Cross-curriculum priorities | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Outdoor learning: Sustainability
Through the priority of Sustainability, students develop the knowledge, skills, values and world views necessary to contribute to more sustainable patterns of living. Outdoor learning enables students to develop a deeper understanding of the relationship …
Outdoor learning: Sustainability | Cross-curriculum priorities | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Respect matters: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
Respectful relationships education offers opportunities to include a focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures. For example: Understanding and respecting ourselves and one another In HPE students can learn about Aboriginal …
Respect matters: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures | Cross-curriculum priorities | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Consumer and financial literacy: Year 1
The diverse circumstances in which children grow up influence their needs, wants, perceptions and behaviours related to financial and consumer matters. Typically, at age six to seven, within their family’s unique circumstances, children explore their …
Consumer and financial literacy: Year 1 | Year levels | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Elaboration (1) ACMNA051
explaining why all numbers that end in the digits 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8 are even and that numbers ending in 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 are odd
Elaboration (1) | ACMNA051 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Outdoor learning: Years 1 and 2
Students at this stage Typically, as students develop their own identities and participate more broadly in everyday life, their movement and recreation options can expand. Gaining knowledge and skills to undertake outdoor activities in more natural settings, …
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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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Unit 1: Biodiversity and the interconnectedness of life Biology
The current view of the biosphere as a dynamic system composed of Earth’s diverse, interrelated and interacting ecosystems developed from the work of eighteenth and nineteenth century naturalists, who collected, classified, measured and mapped the distribution …
Unit 1 | Biology | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 1: Introduction to Earth systems Earth and Environmental Science
The Earth system involves four interacting systems: the geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. A change in any one ‘sphere’ can impact others at a range of temporal and spatial scales. In this unit, students build on their existing knowledge …
Unit 1 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | 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
Unit 1: Thermal, nuclear and electrical physics Physics
An understanding of heating processes, nuclear reactions and electricity is essential to appreciate how global energy needs are met. In this unit, students explore the ways physics is used to describe, explain and predict the energy transfers and transformations …
Unit 1 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
F-6/7 Humanities and Social Sciences - Years 1 and 2
Explore a point of view (Year 1) - ACHASSI022 Explore a point of view (Year 2) - ACHASSI038 The connections of people in Australia to people in other places in Australia and across the world - ACHASSK050
F-6/7 Humanities and Social Sciences - Years 1 and 2 | Relationship skills | 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 …
References & Appendices | STEM Report | STEM | Resources
Pdf document
STEM connections report
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Elaboration (1) ACLASFC172
viewing a series of Auslan identity stories, such as those found in the Griffith University Introduction to Deaf Studies Unit 1 set, comparing their own experiences to those described by deaf children and adults in the footage
Elaboration (1) | ACLASFC172 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Years F–10 Sequence | Second Language Learner Pathway | Auslan | Languages | F-10 curriculum
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 …
STEM in the Australian Curriculum | STEM Report | STEM | Resources
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 …
Conclusions | STEM Report | STEM | Resources
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 …
Introduction | STEM Report | STEM | Resources
Advice for Implementation
Advice School reports and surveys for students and staff members provided valuable insight into what contributes to a successful project. Schools Strong commitment from the school as a whole is vital for the success of such a project. Key to project success …
Advice for Implementation | STEM Report | STEM | Resources
Unit 1: Investigating the Ancient World Ancient History
This unit involves an investigation of how the ancient world has been represented. This involves an exploration of the remaining sources and how they have been interpreted. This unit focuses on issues relevant to the investigation of the ancient world …
Unit 1: Investigating the Ancient World | Ancient History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum