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AC9HE8S03: Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences Content Descriptor – Interpreting and analysing
AC9HE8S03 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HE8S03 – Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences: Interpreting and analysing

Strand
Skills
Substrand
Interpreting and analysing

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.

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 a change in the price of a key commodity as a signal about scarcity of resources or increasing consumer expenditure
  • • 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?”
  • • 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

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 8 ASHASECOY8
Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 8, students explain how markets influence the allocation of resources to the production of goods and services. They explain ways that businesses adapt to opportunities in markets and respond to the work environment. They describe the importance of Australia’s taxation system and its effect on decision-making by individuals and businesses. Students explain why individuals and/or businesses budget and plan. Students develop a range of questions to investigate an economic and business issue. They locate, select and organise relevant information and data. They interpret information and data to identify economic and business issues and trends, and describe economic cause-and-effect relationships. They develop a response to an economic and business issue. They identify and evaluate potential costs and benefits. Students use economics and business knowledge, concepts, terms and research findings to create descriptions and explanations.