AC9HE10S01 Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

develop and modify questions to investigate a contemporary economic and business issue

Elaborations

• 1 developing a range of questions to investigate a complex issue (for example, “Why does the government intervene in the economy to improve living standards?”) or formulating a hypothesis such as “Responding to an upswing in the economy with expansionary measures will improve business productivity”
• 2 developing and modifying a range of questions to improve the focus of an investigation; for example, modifying “What factors influence decision-making within consumer and financial contexts?” to “What factors influence choosing a mobile phone plan?”

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