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AC9HE7S01: Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences Content Descriptor – Questioning and researching
AC9HE7S01 Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HE7S01 – Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences: Questioning and researching

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Skills
Substrand
Questioning and researching

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.

Content Descriptor

develop questions to investigate a contemporary economic and business issue

Elaborations

  • • developing questions to form the basis of an investigation; for example, “How does an understanding of consumer rights and responsibilities impact on decision-making?” and “What are the attributes of an entrepreneur?”
  • • developing questions, using economic and business concepts and terms; for example, “How do businesses decide what to produce?”, “What is economic scarcity?” and “Why can individuals not have all the items they want, meaning they must choose?”

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASHASECOY7
Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 7, students describe how decisions are made to allocate limited resources to individuals and communities in an economy. They describe the reasons businesses exist and types of businesses, and identify how entrepreneurial characteristics contribute to the success of a business. They describe the reasons individuals choose to work, how they may derive an income and the types of work that exist. Students identify the rights and responsibilities of individuals and businesses in terms of products and services. Students develop questions to investigate an economic and business issue. They locate, select and organise data and information from sources. They interpret information and data to identify economic and business issues, trends or effects. They develop a response and identify potential costs and benefits. Students use economic and business knowledge, concepts, terms and sources to create descriptions and explanations.