| LEARNING AREAS |
STRAND |
KEY IDEAS |
ESSENTIAL LEARNINGS |
KEY COMPETENCIES |
STANDARD 3 |
STANDARD 4 |
| SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT |
Time, Continuity & Change |
Students investigate and analyse events, ideas, issues and lives of people in their local community, nation and the world, identifying patterns, changes, continuities and possible futures. |
F In T C |
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3.1 Identifies and explains sequences of change that have occurred in Australia over time, and recognises various perspectives on events. |
4.1 Suggests and justifies reasons why groups of people in societies, countries or civilisations have undergone changes in wealth and/or their ability to sustain natural resources. |
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Place & Space
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Students analyse spatial associations in Australian and other regions, according to such factors as location, natural and built features, changing populations, employment, resources, transport and government decisions. They consider critically the differentials in power and access of individuals and groups in relation to valued community resources. |
F In T |
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3.4 Identifies and describes significant resources, explains the threats which endanger them, and suggest strategies to combat threats. |
4.4 Describes places in Australia and elsewhere according to their location, natural and built features, population and resources. Students explain inter-relationships, including the effects of human modifications. |
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Students access, investigate, interpret and represent information from fieldwork, electronic systems and other research, in order to explain local and global interactions and relationships between people and environments. |
In T C |
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3.5 Interprets and represents data about natural and built environments, resources, systems and interactions, both global and local, using maps, graphs and texts. |
4.5 Hypothesises, then collects, records, organises and evaluates data from fieldwork, print and electronic sources, in order to analyse local and global, environmental or socioeconomic issues |
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Students discuss environmental, conservation or resource issues, and individually and/or in teams collaboratively develop strategies to bring about positive change in the local community. |
F In T |
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3.6 Identifies factors affecting an environmental issue, and reports on ways to act for sustainable futures. |
4.6 Identifies and describes ways that places and natural environments are valued or threatened, and discusses strategies related to ecological sustainability. |
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Societies & Cultures |
Students develop research and social skills that promote recognition and appreciation of the heritage of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other groups. They develop the capacities to identify and counter prejudice and contribute to Reconciliation. |
F T C |
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3.8 Learns from rural and urban Aboriginal peoples and other minorities about their histories and present day experiences, and acts to counter prejudice. |
4.8 Demonstrates critical understanding of their own cultural practices in comparison to the histories, cultures and present day experiences of rural and urban Aboriginal groups, and acts for Reconciliation.
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Social Systems |
Students work cooperatively to collect, analyse and describe information about particular issues which have social, economic and environmental dimensions. They identify Key Ideas, justify positions, predict outcomes and suggest enterprising solutions. |
In T C |
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3.12 Recognises that individuals, groups and systems hold different views, values and beliefs, and identifies those which contribute to the common good. |
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| SCIENCE |
Earth & Space |
Students investigate, through fieldwork and research, the central importance of the earth's role in sustaining life and how changes impact on life; and understand the interaction of the atmosphere, the oceans and the earth's surface. |
F In T |
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3.1 Describes the characteristics that sustain life on earth and changes to these characteristics and their impact over time. |
4.1 Identifies and investigates changes, both natural and human-induced, on the earth and suggests ideas which encourage the preservation of the natural environment for all living things. |
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Life Systems |
Students develop a shared understanding of the characteristics and behaviour of living things and how they are interrelated and interdepenent. They appreciate and report on the place of humans in the earth's ecology, and develop their understanding of, explore future possibilities for, and act to contribute to, sustainable environments. |
F Id In |
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3.5 Explains the interreationships between systems within living things, and between living things in ecological systems. They relate these ideas to the health of individuals and to threats to the sustainability of ecological systems. |
4.5 Investigates and explains the functioning of living systems from the microscopic to the macroscopic. |
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