AC9HE9S03 Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HE9S03 – Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences: Interpreting and analysing

Strand

Skills

Substrand

Interpreting and analysing

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.

Content Descriptor

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

• interpreting information to explain the nature and extent of economic and business issues; for example, the way Australian businesses operate in the global economy
• 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
• 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
• 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

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASHASECOY9

Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 9, students explain the role of Australia’s financial sector and its effect on economic decision-making by individuals and businesses. They explain the interdependence of participants in the global market and the effect on economic decision-making. They explain the reasons for trade and Australia’s pattern of trade with Asia. They explain why businesses seek to create and maintain a competitive advantage. Students explain how individuals and businesses manage consumer and financial risks and rewards. Students develop and modify questions to investigate an economic and business issue. They locate, select and analyse information and data from a range of sources. They interpret and analyse information and data to explain economic trends and cause-and-effect relationships, and identify consumer and financial impacts. They develop a response to an economic and business issue, taking account of economic, business or financial factors. They evaluate a response using criteria and make decisions about how it is to be implemented. Students use economic and business knowledge, concepts and terms to develop descriptions, explanations and arguments that acknowledge research findings.