Australian Curriculum Year 6 HASS Economics & Business Unit

Includes update to version 9 of the Australian Curriculum in addition to a version for 8.4. ✓ Editable Unit Planner ✓ Grading Guide ✓ Editable PowerPoint ✓ Worksheets ✓ Success Criteria/Learning Intentions

In this Year 6 unit, students explore influences on consumer choices and strategies that can be used to help make informed choices, addressing aspects of the HASS Australian Curriculum.

✩ It is a 9 lesson unit (designed to be taught over a term) that contains all lesson resources including worksheets and posters*.

✩ This HASS unit also contains an editable PowerPoint presentation that can be displayed during each lesson. It includes the learning intentions/success criteria, key discussion points, worksheets and display resources. This makes teaching every lesson even easier if your classroom has a T.V or Smartboard.

✩ The editable planner includes relevant Australian Curriculum links.

✩ The lessons are kept simple and succinct, five to six steps each, to help you save time. The clear instructions highlight the key points, allowing you to focus on the students and make the most of the learning opportunities.

✩ Mrs Amy123 is known for its fun and engaging lessons that involve a wide range of cooperative learning strategies. This means that some lessons will not feature worksheets, though many will.

✩ This unit also includes a grading guide that shows what each grade (A-E) would look like based on two activities from the unit. This document is also linked to the Achievement Standard for Year 6 HASS.

Included are:

♦ Editable planner (6 pages)

♦ Worksheets (11 pages)

♦ Resources (35 pages)

♦ Editable PowerPoint Presentation (100+ pages)

♦ Editable Grading Guide (1 page)

♦ Editable learning intentions and success criteria

Version 9 Outcomes covered:

Economics and Business:

Influences on consumer choices and strategies that can be used to help make informed personal consumer and financial choices (AC9HS6K08)

Inquiry Skills:

Questioning and research: Develop questions to investigate people, events, developments, places and systems (AC9HS6S01)

Locate, collect and organise information and data from primary and secondary sources in a range of formats (AC9HS6S02)

Interpreting, analysing and evaluating: Evaluate information and data in a range of formats to identify and describe patterns and trends, or to infer relationships (AC9HS6S03)

Evaluate primary and secondary sources to determine origin, purpose and perspectives (AC9HS6S04)

Concluding and decision-making: Develop evidence-based conclusions (AC9HS6S05)

Propose actions or responses to issues or challenges and use criteria to assess the possible effects (AC9HS6S06)

Communicating: Present descriptions and explanations, drawing ideas, findings and viewpoints from sources, and using relevant terms and conventions (AC9HS6S07)

Version 8.4 Outcomes covered:

Economics and Business: How the concept of opportunity cost involves choices about the alternative use of resources and the need to consider trade-offs (ACHASSK149)

The effect that consumer and financial decisions can have on the individual, the broader community and the environment (ACHASSK150)

The reasons businesses exist and the different ways they provide goods and services (ACHASSK151)

Inquiry Skills: ACHASSI122, ACHASSI123, ACHASSI124, ACHASSI125, ACHASSI126, ACHASSI127, ACHASSI128, ACHASSI129, ACHASSI130 and ACHASSI132

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