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Year level 6 Sustainability Enterprise Budgeting Mathematics English Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) Design and Technologies
Students work with a budget of $1,000,000 to develop an environmentally-friendly nature fun park based on a number of conditions.
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Learning outcomes
Students:
- develop an environmentally friendly nature fun park with specific requests and budget
- prepare budget sheets
- present their plan including budget, and profits
Curriculum alignment
Year 6
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)
General capabilities
Level 4: Typically, by the end of Year 6, students:
- Literacy:
- navigate, read and view subject-specific texts with some challenging features and a range of graphic representations
- compose and edit learning area texts
- plan, research, rehearse and deliver presentations on learning area topics, selecting appropriate content and visual and multimodal elements to suit different audiences
- Numeracy
- solve problems and check calculations using efficient mental and written strategies
- create simple financial plans, budgets and cost predictions
- choose and use appropriate metric units for length, area, volume, capacity and mass to solve everyday problems
- ICT
- use ICT effectively to record ideas, represent thinking and plan solution
- independently or collaboratively create and modify digital solutions, creative outputs or data representation/ transformation for particular audiences and purposes
- Critical and Creative Thinking
- analyse, condense and combine relevant information from multiple source
- combine ideas in a variety of ways and from a range of sources to create new possibilities
- assess and test options to identify the most effective solution and to put ideas into action
- identify and justify the thinking behind choices they have made