AC9HE8S01 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 8 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 questions to investigate a contemporary economic and business issue

Elaborations

• 1 developing a range of questions to form the basis of an investigation; for example, “Why does an individual or group establish a business?” and “How are consumers’ rights protected?”
• 2 developing targeted or key questions using economics and business concepts and terms, such as, “How is the price of goods and services determined?” and “Why do changes in market price act as a signal about how scarce resources should be allocated?”

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