Challenge students to think critically about national priorities and resource allocation with this worksheet.
Present descriptions and explanations, drawing ideas, findings and viewpoints from sources, and using relevant terms and conventions
Locate, collect and organise information and data from primary and secondary sources in a range of formats
Australia’s interconnections with other countries and how these change people and places
Develop evidence-based conclusions
Influences on consumer choices and strategies that can be used to help make informed personal consumer and financial choices
Develop questions to investigate people, events, developments, places and systems
Evaluate information and data in a range of formats to identify and describe patterns and trends, or to infer relationships
Evaluate primary and secondary sources to determine origin, purpose and perspectives
Propose actions or responses to issues or challenges and use criteria to assess the possible effects
Interpret data and information displayed in a range of formats to identify, describe and compare distributions, patterns and trends, and to infer relationships
Sequence information about people’s lives, events, developments and phenomena using a variety of methods including timelines
Australia’s connections with other countries and how these change people and places
The effect that consumer and financial decisions can have on the individual, the broader community and the environment
Evaluate evidence to draw conclusions
Organise and represent data in a range of formats including tables, graphs and large- and small-scale maps, using discipline-appropriate conventions
How the concept of opportunity cost involves choices about the alternative use of resources and the need to consider trade-offs
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
Develop appropriate questions to guide an inquiry about people, events, developments, places, systems and challenges
Locate and collect relevant information and data from primary sources and secondary sources
Work in groups to generate responses to issues and challenges
Examine different viewpoints on actions, events, issues and phenomena in the past and present
Reflect on learning to propose personal and/or collective action in response to an issue or challenge, and predict the probable effects
Examine primary sources and secondary sources to determine their origin and purpose
The reasons businesses exist and the different ways they provide goods and services
Use criteria to make decisions and judgements and consider advantages and disadvantages of preferring one decision over others
Identifies change and continuity and describes the causes and effects of change on Australian society
Explains interactions and connections between people, places and environments
Describes and explains the significance of people, groups, places and events to the development of Australia
Acquires, processes and communicates geographical information using geographical tools for inquiry
Describes the diverse features and characteristics of places and environments
Compares and contrasts influences on the management of places and environments
Applies a variety of skills of historical inquiry and communication
Collect and record relevant geographical data and information from the field and secondary sources, using ethical protocols
Interpret maps and other geographical data and information using digital and spatial technologies as appropriate, to develop identifications, descriptions, explanations and conclusions that use geographical terminology
Australia’s connections with other countries and how these change people and places
Make decisions, identify appropriate actions by considering the advantages and disadvantages, and form conclusions concerning an economics or business issue or event
Consider the effect that the consumer and financial decisions of individuals may have on themselves, their family, the broader community and the natural, economic and business environment
Describe and explain interconnections within places and between places, and the effects of these interconnections
Identify the origin, content features and the purpose of historical sources and describe the context of these sources when explaining daily life in colonial Australia, reasons for migration and causes and effects of Federation
Explore the concept of opportunity cost and explain how it involves choices about the alternative use of limited resources and the need to consider trade-offs
Represent the location of places and other types of geographical data and information in different forms including diagrams, field sketches and large-scale and small-scale maps that conform to cartographic conventions of border, scale, legend, title, north point and source; using digital and spatial technologies as appropriate
Identify the reasons businesses exist and investigate the different ways they produce and distribute goods and services