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Year level 3-4 Enterprise Parents Fundraising Sustainability Mathematics English Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)
Students engage with budgeting, currency conversion, scams and online security by running a fundraising event to save a creature from extinction.
This digiactivity can be used by individual students or in pairs on computers or tablets.
Curriculum alignment
Year 3
Learning area: Mathematics
Content descriptions
Strand: Number and Algebra
- Sub-strand: Number and place value
- Recognise and explain the connection between addition and subtraction (ACMNA054)
- Recall addition facts for single-digit numbers and related subtraction facts to develop increasingly efficient mental strategies for computation (ACMNA055)
- Recall multiplication facts of two, three, five and ten and related division facts (ACMNA056)
- Represent and solve problems involving multiplication using efficient mental and written strategies and appropriate digital technologies (ACMNA057)
- Sub-strand: Money and financial mathematics
- Represent money values in multiple ways and count the change required for simple transactions to the nearest five cents (ACMNA059)
Learning area: English
Content descriptions
Strand: Language
- Sub-strand: Text structure and organisation
- Identify the features of online texts that enhance navigation (ACELA1790)
Strand: Literacy
- Sub-strand: Interpreting, analysing and evaluation
- Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1680)
Learning area: HASS
Content descriptions
Strand: Inquiry and Skills
- Sub-strand: Analysing
- Examine information to identify different points of view and distinguish facts from opinions (ACHASSI056)
- Sub-strand: Evaluating and reflecting
- Draw simple conclusions based on analysis of information and data (ACHASSI058)
- Reflect on learning to propose actions in response to an issue or challenge and consider possible effects of proposed actions (ACHASSI060)
Year 4
Learning area: Mathematics
Content descriptions
Strand: Number and Algebra
- Sub-strand: Number and place value
- Recall multiplication facts up to 10 x 10 and related division facts (ACMNA075)
- Develop efficient mental and written strategies, and use appropriate digital technologies for multiplication and for division where there is no remainder (ACMNA076)
- Sub-strand: Money and financial mathematics
- Solve problems involving purchases and the calculation of change to the nearest five cents with and without digital technologies (ACMNA080)
Learning area: English
Content descriptions
Strand: Language
- Sub-strand: Text structure and organisation
- Identify features of online texts that enhance readability including text, navigation, links, graphics and layout (ACELA1793)
Strand: Literacy
- Sub-strand: Interpreting, analysing and evaluation
- Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts (ACELY1692)
Learning area: HASS
Content descriptions
Strand: Inquiry and Skills
- Sub-strand: Analysing
- Examine information to identify different points of view and distinguish facts from opinions (ACHASSI077)
- Sub-strand: Evaluating and reflecting
- Draw simple conclusions based on analysis of information and data (ACHASSI079)
- Reflect on learning to propose actions in response to an issue or challenge and consider possible effects of proposed actions (ACHASSI081)
General capabilities
Level 3: Typically, by the end of Year 4, students:
- Literacy:
- navigate, read and view different types of texts with illustrations and more detailed graphics
- interpret literal information and make inferences to expand topic knowledge using comprehension strategies
- use growing knowledge of the structure and features of learning area texts to comprehend and compose an increasing number and range of texts
- Numeracy
- estimate a solution to a problem and then check the solution by recalling addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts
- estimate the change from simple purchases
- solve problems using equivalent fractions for tenths, hundredths, 1-place and 2-place decimals
- Critical and Creative Thinking
- identify and apply appropriate reasoning and thinking strategies for particular outcomes
- draw on prior knowledge and use evidence when choosing a course of action or drawing a conclusion