Structure Science
The three interrelated strands of science The Australian Curriculum: Science has three interrelated strands: science understanding, science as a human endeavour and science inquiry skills. Together, the three strands of the science curriculum provide …
Structure | Science | F-10 curriculum
Structure Work Studies
The design, organisation and structure of the Work Studies Years 9–10 curriculum provides flexibility for schools to draw on the interests, capabilities and contexts of their students. It allows schools to accommodate school structures and processes, …
Structure | Work Studies | F-10 curriculum
Rationale/Aims Geography
Rationale The study of Geography draws on students’ curiosity about the diversity of the world’s places and their peoples, cultures and environments. It enables students to appreciate the complexity of our world and the diversity of its environments, …
Rationale/Aims | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Student diversity
ACARA is committed to the development of a high-quality curriculum that promotes excellence and equity in education for all Australian students. All students are entitled to rigorous, relevant and engaging learning programs drawn from the Australian Curriculum: …
Student diversity | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Years 3 and 4 Auslan
The nature of the learners Learners at this level are developing their cognitive and social capabilities and their communicative repertoire in the language, as well as becoming increasingly aware of their social worlds and their membership of various …
Years 3 and 4 | Years F–10 Sequence | Second Language Learner Pathway | Auslan | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Rationale Media Arts
This rationale complements and extends the rationale for The Arts learning area. Media arts involves creating representations of the world and telling stories through communications technologies such as television, film, video, newspapers, radio, video …
Rationale | Media Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Key ideas English
Texts Texts provide the means for communication. They can be written, spoken, visual, multimodal, and in print or digital/online forms. Multimodal texts combine language with other means of communication such as visual images, soundtrack or spoken words, …
Key ideas | English | F-10 curriculum
General capabilities
In the Australian Curriculum, general capabilities encompass knowledge, skills, behaviours, and dispositions that, together with curriculum content in each learning area and the cross-curriculum priorities, will enable students to live and work successfully …
General capabilities | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Chinese Years 5 and 6
By the end of Year 6, students use spoken and written Chinese to maintain interactions with familiar and unfamiliar people across a growing range of situations (for example, 你星期几去汉语学校？,你说…对吗？); to convey information, opinions and experiences (for …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Years 5 and 6 | Years F–10 Sequence | Background Language Learner Pathway | Chinese | Languages | 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
A guide to the progressions for parents
Literacy and numeracy development influences students’ success in most aspects of schooling. The National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions are a resource that describe how literacy and numeracy learning develops over time. There are two progressions …
A guide to the progressions for parents | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Rationale/Aims Earth and Environmental Science
Rationale Earth and Environmental Science is a multifaceted field of inquiry that focuses on interactions between the solid Earth, its water, its air and its living organisms, and on dynamic, interdependent relationships that have developed between these …
Rationale/Aims | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure of Essential English Essential English
Units Unit 1 focuses on students comprehending and responding to the ideas and information presented in texts drawn from a range of contexts. Students are taught a variety of strategies to assist comprehension. They read, view and listen to texts to connect, …
Structure of Essential English | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMGM049
construct two-way frequency tables and determine the associated row and column sums and percentages
ACMGM049 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMGM050
use an appropriately percentaged two-way frequency table to identify patterns that suggest the presence of an association
ACMGM050 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Context statement Arabic
The place of the Arabic culture and language in Australia and in the world Arabic is spoken by approximately 280 million people in 22 countries over two continents. It is the official language of the Arab world, which includes countries of the Middle …
Context statement | Arabic | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Context statement German
The place of the German language and culture in Australia and in the world German is an official language of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, Belgium, Luxembourg and in South Tyrol in Italy. It is also used as an official …
Context statement | German | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Ethical Understanding - Level 2 (Years 1 and 2)
Typically by the end of Year 2, students: Consider consequences describe the effects that personal feelings and dispositions have on how people behave Reflect on ethical action give examples of how understanding situations can influence the way people …
Ethical Understanding - Level 2 (Years 1 and 2) | Wellbeing | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Intercultural Understanding - Level 2 (Years 1 and 2)
Typically by the end of Year 2, students: Explore and compare cultural knowledge, beliefs and practices describe and compare the way they live with people in other places or times Develop respect for cultural diversity describe ways that diversity …
Intercultural Understanding - Level 2 (Years 1 and 2) | Informed and safe use of information and devices | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Health and Physical Education - Years 5 and 6
Being healthy, safe and active Content descriptions with elaborations: Recognise how media and important people in the community influence personal attitudes, beliefs, decisions and behaviours (ACPPS057) examining how media and public identities …
Health and Physical Education - Years 5 and 6 | Digital media literacy | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources