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Learning area: Mathematics

Content descriptions

Strand: Measurement and Geometry

• Sub-strand: Using units of measurement
  
  • Convert between common metric units of length, mass and capacity (ACMMG136)
  • Solve problems involving the comparison of lengths and areas using appropriate units (ACMMG137)

Strand: Number and Algebra

• Sub-strand: Number and place value
  
  • Select and apply efficient mental and written strategies and appropriate digital technologies to solve problems involving all four operations with whole numbers (ACMNA123)

Learning area: English

Content descriptions

Strand: Literacy

• Sub-strand: Interacting with others
  
  • Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions (ACELY1709)
  • Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for defined audiences and purposes, making appropriate choices for modality and emphasis (ACELY1710)

Learning area: HASS

Content descriptions

Strand: Knowledge and Understanding

• Sub-strand: Economics and business
  
  • How the concept of opportunity cost involves choices about the alternative use of resources and the need to consider trade-offs (ACHASSK149)
  • The effect that consumer and financial decisions can have on the individual, the broader community and the environment (ACHASSK150)

Strand: Inquiry and Skills

• Sub-strand: Questioning
  
  • Develop appropriate questions to guide an inquiry about people, events, developments, places, systems and challenges (ACHASSI122)
• Sub-strand: Researching
  • Locate and collect relevant information and data from primary and secondary sources (ACHASSI123)
  • Organise and represent data in a range of formats including tables, graphs and large- and small-scale maps, using discipline-appropriate conventions (ACHASSI124)
• Sub-strand: Evaluating and reflecting
  • Evaluate evidence to draw conclusions (ACHASSI129)
  • Work in groups to generate responses to issues and challenges (ACHASSI130)
  • Use criteria to make decisions and judgements and consider advantages and disadvantages of preferring one decision over others (ACHASSI131)
  • Reflect on learning to propose personal and/or collective action in response to an issue or challenge, and predict the probable effects (ACHASSI132)
• Sub-strand: Communicating
  • 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 (ACHASSI133)

Learning area: Design and Technologies

Content descriptions

Strand: Processes and Production Skills

• Sub-strand: Generating and designing
  • Negotiate criteria for success that include sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions (ACTDEP027)
• Sub-strand: Collaborating and managing
  • Develop project plans that include consideration of resources when making designed solutions individually and collaboratively (ACTDEP028)