Humanities and social sciences / Year 6 / Inquiry and skills / Evaluating and reflecting

Curriculum content descriptions

Work in groups to generate responses to issues and challenges (ACHASSI130)

Elaborations
  • planning a project, campaign or enterprise around an identified challenge with specification of the sequence of tasks and activities, responsibilities and deadlines
  • participating collaboratively on committees, in an enterprise or a simulated parliament taking responsibility for respectful interactions with others
  • applying enterprising behaviours (for example, taking on a leadership role in a project, working with others to make decisions)
  • brainstorming solutions to an issue that is significant to a group and using negotiation to reach consensus on a preferred approach to resolving the issue
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Decision making,  Planning,  Group dynamics

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