AC9HE7S03 Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HE7S03 – Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences: Interpreting and analysing

Strand

Skills

Substrand

Interpreting and analysing

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

interpret information and data to identify economic and business issues, trends and economic cause-and-effect relationships

Elaborations

• interpreting information to identify economic and business issues; for example, inferring the effect of growth in shopping online on the number of customers entering stores
• interpreting multi-variable data by using interactive digital tools to identify trends and to answer questions such as “For a 10-year period, to what extent has the number of people in casual work changed?”
• interpreting visual displays of multi-variable data to identify a cause-and-effect relationship within an economic and business issue, such as the relationship between income earned by an individual and levels of saving and spending

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.