AC9HE7K02 Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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.

the reasons businesses exist and how different types of businesses provide goods and services

Elaborations

• 1 identifying why businesses exist; for example, to produce goods and services, to make a profit, to provide employment, and investigating the different ways that goods and services are provided to people, such as through shopping centres, local markets, online, small independent stores and remote community stores
• 2 identifying the features of different types of businesses, including sole proprietorship, partnership, cooperative, corporation, franchise and not-for-profit organisation
• 3 investigating a business owned by First Nations Australians, exploring the types of goods and services offered and why this business was started
• 4 identifying examples of different types of businesses that sell goods and/or services in the local community; for example, a sole proprietor operating a car yard, a partnership providing legal services or a corporation selling groceries through a chain of supermarkets

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