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Year level 7 Mobile phones Sustainability Economics and business Mathematics English
Students investigate ways to save money by buying smart and using comparative shopping to make savings.
Learning outcomes
Students:
- examine the concept of comparative shopping in grocery shopping and mobile phone plans
- investigate unit pricing
- perform calculations related to mobile calls, messaging and data downloads
- design a poster to apply their learning and recommend ways to reduce spending.
Curriculum alignment
Year 7
Learning area: Mathematics
Content descriptions
Strand: Number and Algebra
- Sub-strand: Real Numbers
- Round decimals to a specified number of decimal places (ACMNA156)
- Sub-strand: Money and financial mathematics
- Investigate and calculate ‘best buys’, with and without digital technologies (ACMNA174)
Strand: Statistics and Probability
- Sub-strand: Data Representation and interpretation
- Identify and investigate issues involving numerical data collected from primary and secondary sources (ACMSP169)
Learning area: English
Content descriptions
Strand: Literacy
- Sub-strand: Interpreting, analysing, evaluation
- Use comprehension strategies to interpret, analyse and synthesise ideas and information, critiquing ideas and issues from a variety of textual sources (ACELY1723)
- Sub-strand: Creating texts
- Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, selecting aspects of subject matter and particular language, visual, and audio features to convey information and ideas (ACELY1725)
Learning area: Economics and business
Content descriptions
Strand: Knowledge and Understanding
- The ways consumers and producers interact and respond to each other in the market (ACHEK017)
- Why and how individuals and businesses plan to achieve short-term and long-term personal, organisational and financial objectives (ACHEK018)
Strand: Skills
- Sub-strand: Interpretation and analysis
- Interpret data and information displayed in different formats to identify relationships and trends (ACHES034)
- Sub-strand: Economic reasoning, decision-making and application
- Generate a range of alternatives in response to an observed economic or business issue or event, and evaluate the potential costs and benefits of each alternative (ACHES024)
- Apply economics and business knowledge, skills and concepts in familiar and new situations (ACHES025)
- Sub-strand: Communication and reflection
- Present evidence-based conclusions using economics and business language and concepts in a range of appropriate formats, and reflect on the consequences of alternative actions (ACHES026)
General capabilities
Level 5: Typically, by the end of Year 8, students:
- Literacy:
- navigate, read and view a variety of challenging subject-specific texts with a wide range of graphic representations
- interpret and evaluate information, identify main ideas and supporting evidence, and analyse different perspectives using comprehension strategies
- compose and edit longer sustained learning area texts
- use pair, group and class discussions and formal and informal debates as learning tools to explore ideas, test possibilities, compare solutions, rehearse ideas and arguments in preparation for creating texts
- use wide knowledge of the structure and features of learning area texts to comprehend and compose texts, using creative adaptations of text structures and conventions for citing others
- recognise and use aspects of language to suggest possibility, probability, obligation and conditionality
- Numeracy
- solve complex problems by estimating and calculating using efficient mental, written and digital strategies
- identify and justify ‘best value for money’ decisions
- identify trends using number rules and relationships
- convert between common metric units for volume and capacity and use perimeter, area and volume formulas to solve authentic problems
- ICT
- locate, retrieve or generate information using search facilities and organise information in meaningful ways
- Critical and Creative Thinking
- pose questions to probe assumptions and investigate complex issues
- clarify information and ideas from texts or images when exploring challenging issues
- draw parallels between known and new ideas to create new ways of achieving goals
- generate alternatives and innovative solutions, and adapt ideas, including when information is limited or conflicting
- predict possibilities, and identify and test consequences when seeking solutions and putting ideas into action
- assess assumptions in their thinking and invite alternative opinions
- evaluate and justify the reasons behind choosing a particular problem-solving strategy
- justify reasons for decisions when transferring information to similar and different contexts
- differentiate the components of a designed course of action and tolerate ambiguities when drawing conclusions
- explain intentions and justify ideas, methods and courses of action, and account for expected and unexpected outcomes against criteria they have identified
- Personal and Social Capability
- identify and choose a range of learning strategies appropriate to specific tasks and describe work practices that assist their learning
- assess the extent to which individual roles and responsibilities enhance group cohesion and the achievement of personal and group objectives