AC9HE8S03 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 interpreting information to identify economic and business issues; for example, inferring a change in the price of a key commodity as a signal about scarcity of resources or increasing consumer expenditure
• 2 interpreting data displayed in tables and graphs to identify trends and answer questions such as, “For a 10-year period, what is the trend in the percentage of people over 60 paying income tax?”
• 3 interpreting multi-variable data to identify a cause-and-effect relationship within an economic and business issue; for example, an increase in income earned by an individual and taxation paid, or when the supply of a good and service increases, the price adjusts

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