Inquiry in the Australian Curriculum

Inquiry in the Curriculum

If you are in a school context, you will need to draw on the relevant curriculum (Australian Curriculum, state curriculum, International Baccalaureate) in your unit plan.

If you’re in a non-Australian context, please use the standards and continua that are relevant to your context.

Australian Curriculum inquiry skills

The Australian Curriculum explicitly includes the development of inquiry skills within:

• F-12 Science
• F-10 Humanities and Social Sciences (History, Geography, Civics & Citizenship, Economics & Business)
• 11-12 English, Ancient History, Modern History and Geography

STANDARDS & CONTINUA

• inquiry skills F-10 scope & sequence – Karen Bonanno & Lee FitzGerald 2015

Analysing your unit in light of the Australian Curriculum continua/scope & sequence

• How are the scope and sequence for the Australian Curriculum (or other curricula) being used in the inquiry?
• How are the Australian Curriculum general capabilities being used in the inquiry?

READING

Barbara Braxton (2017) The scope and sequence hat [for TLs]