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AC9HE8S05: Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences Content Descriptor – Communicating
AC9HE8S05 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HE8S05 – Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences: Communicating

Strand
Skills
Substrand
Communicating

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

create descriptions and explanations, using economic and business knowledge, concepts and terms, and referencing information and data from sources

Elaborations

  • • developing a response to an issue that orients the audience (for example, peers or community groups) to the issue, using relevant economic and business concepts and terms such as “markets”, “business”, “consumer and financial decision-making” and “taxation”
  • • creating a description or explanation using data or information presented in appropriate formats to support decisions and conclusions about an economic and business issue

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.