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AC9HS6K08: Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences Content Descriptor – Economics and Business
AC9HS6K08 Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HS6K08 – Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences: Economics and Business

Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Economics and Business

This Content Descriptor from Year 6 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

influences on consumer choices and strategies that can be used to help make informed personal consumer and financial choices

Elaborations

  • • identifying goods they have purchased, and categorising and explaining factors that influence consumer purchasing decisions, including personal preferences, social trends, economic factors such as budgets and the amount of money available to spend, psychological factors such as advertising and peer pressure, and cultural, environmental, legal and ethical factors
  • • comparing the influence of a variety of selling and advertising strategies used by businesses on consumer choices; for example, the influence of television and internet advertising compared to email promotions
  • • recognising that financial transactions can include the use of notes, coins, credit and debit cards, and barter items; explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the different transaction types; and considering how these may influence the way people purchase items
  • • exploring the strategies that can be used when making consumer and financial decisions, such as finding more information, comparing prices, keeping a record of money spent and saving for the future
  • • exploring how a decision to buy an item at the local supermarket affects the family (for example, “Did the family have to put off buying another item to have this one?”) and the local community, such as providing jobs
  • • considering if their actions affect the environment; for example, “Does choosing local products rather than imports affect the environment?”

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 6 ASHASHASY6
Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 6, students explain the roles of significant people, events and ideas that led to Australian Federation, democracy and citizenship. They explain the causes and effects of migration to Australia since Federation. They explain the geographical diversity of places and the effects of interconnections with other countries. Students explain the key institutions, roles and responsibilities of Australia’s levels of government, and democratic values and beliefs. They explain influences on consumers and strategies for informed consumer and financial choices. Students develop questions, and locate, collect and organise information and data from a range of primary and secondary sources. They evaluate sources to determine origin, purpose and perspectives. Students evaluate a range of information and data formats to identify and describe patterns, trends or inferred relationships. They evaluate evidence to draw conclusions. Students propose actions or responses and use criteria to assess the possible effects. Students select and organise ideas and findings from sources, and use a range of relevant terms and conventions, to present descriptions and explanations.