Curriculum Outcomes

curriculum HASS

The impact of a significant development or event on an Australian colony (ACHASSK108)
The reasons people migrated to Australia and the experiences and contributions of a particular migrant group within a colony (ACHASSK109)
The role that a significant individual or group played in shaping a colony (ACHASSK110)
The environmental and human influences on the location and characteristics of a place and the management of spaces within them (ACHASSK)

Inquiry and Skills

Develop appropriate questions to guide an inquiry about people, events, developments, places, systems and challenges (ACHASSI094)
Locate and collect relevant information and data from primary sources and secondary sources (ACHASSI095)
Organise and represent data in a range of formats including tables, graphs and large- and small-scale maps, using discipline-appropriate conventions (ACHASSI096)
Sequence information about people’s lives, events, developments and phenomena using a variety of methods including timelines (ACHASSI097)
Examine primary sources and secondary sources to determine their origin and purpose (ACHASSI098)
Examine different viewpoints on actions, events, issues and phenomena in the past and present (ACHASSI099)
Interpret data and information displayed in a range of formats to identify, describe and compare distributions, patterns and trends, and to infer relationships (ACHASSI100)
Evaluate evidence to draw conclusions (ACHASSI101)
Work in groups to generate responses to issues and challenges (ACHASSI102)
Use criteria to make decisions and judgements and consider the advantages and disadvantages of preferring one decision over others (ACHASSI103)
Reflect on learning to propose personal and/or collective action in response to an issue or challenge, and predict the probable effects (ACHASSI104)
Present ideas, findings, viewpoints and conclusions in a range of texts and modes that incorporate source materials, digital and non-digital representations and discipline-specific terms and conventions (ACHASSI105)

Literacy

Navigate and read texts for specific purposes applying appropriate text processing strategies, for example predicting and confirming, monitoring meaning, skimming and scanning (ACELY1702)
Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources (ACELY1703)
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1704)
Re-read and edit student’s own and others’ work using agreed criteria for text structures and language features (ACELY1705)
Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced (ACELT1612)
Understand the use of vocabulary to express greater precision of meaning, and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts (ACELA1512)

Numeracy

Use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers to calculations (ACMNA099)
Create simple financial plans (ACMNA106)
Compare, order and represent decimals (ACMNA105)
Use a grid reference system to describe locations. Describe routes using landmarks and directional language (ACMMG113)