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Economics and business / Year 7 / Economics and Business Knowledge and Understanding

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Why individuals work, types of work and how people derive an income (ACHEK020)

Elaborations
  • investigating the contribution that work can make to an individual (for example, earning an income, contributing to an individual’s self-esteem, contributing to the community, material and non-material living standards and happiness)
  • exploring different types of work such as full-time, part-time, casual, at home, paid, unpaid, unrecognised, volunteer
  • investigating alternative sources of income such as through owning a business, being a shareholder, providing a rental service
  • discussing the ways people who have retired from employment earn an income (for example, age pension, superannuation and private savings)
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Work (Labour),  Income

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Untold education project: The invisible farmer

  • TLF-IDA003501

Invisible Farmer is the largest ever study of Australian women on the land. The project collects oral histories of women by creating interview-based video content. This website provides videos ,interview questions and suggestions to support teachers to guide students to create their own multimodal stories of women on the land.

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PreVET

  • TLF-IDM020528

The PreVet program is designed for students in the middle years and explores ideas around work culture and the value of literacy and numeracy in working life. It is a vast, multi-layered website providing student and teacher resources promoting job pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people in remote northern ...

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IP in everyday life

  • TLF-IDM019436

This is an interactive resource about products that exist in everyday life that have protected intellectual property. The resource is presented as a timeline of one day, beginning at breakfast in the morning through until night. Interactive images appear as the mouse scrolls across the timeline. These images are linked ...

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Trade and Investment at a Glance

  • TLF-IDM025125

Using an illustrated report from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, this Teacher guide provides ten learning sequences that engage students in the analysis and interpretation of data about Australian imports and exports. Students: identify Australia's major exports and imports; investigate international trade ...

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Australia's Trade through Time

  • TLF-IDM025126

Using an interactive timeline created by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, this Teacher guide provides 12 series of learning experiences that engage students in the analysis and interpretation of data about Australian trade from 1900 to the present day. Students study videos, tables, images and texts in order ...

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