AC9HE9S03 Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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, explaining economic and business issues, trends and economic cause-and-effect relationships, and make predictions about consumer and financial impacts

Elaborations

• 1 interpreting information to explain the nature and extent of economic and business issues; for example, the way Australian businesses operate in the global economy
• 2 interpreting multi-variable data to explain direction and time period for a change; for example, change in the direction and composition of Australia’s trade in the past 10, 20 or 50 years
• 3 explaining relationships between the actions of individuals and businesses; for example, the way businesses operate in the global economy and implications for the Australian market
• 4 explaining trends to make predictions about who will be affected and how; for example, the trend for money lost in scams and age groups most affected, and predictions about how it will affect the behaviour of individuals and businesses

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