Links to the Australian Curriculum

Voting and Elections: Voting: Should you have to?

History

  • History / Year 3 / Historical Skills / Perspectives and interpretations Identify different points of view. ACHHS069
  • History / Year 4 / Historical Skills / Perspectives and interpretations Identify different points of view. ACHHS085

English

  • English / Year 3 / Language / Language for interaction Understand that successful cooperation with others depends on shared use of social conventions, including turn-taking patterns, and forms of address that vary according to the degree of formality in social situations. ACELA1476
  • English / Year 3 / Literacy / Interacting with others Listen to and contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas and negotiate in collaborative situations. ACELY1676
  • English / Year 3 / Language / Language for interaction Examine how evaluative language can be varied to be more or less forceful. ACELA1477
  • English / Year 4 / Literacy / Interacting with others Use interaction skills such as acknowledging another’s point of view and linking students’ response to the topic, using familiar and new vocabulary and a range of vocal effects such as tone, pace, pitch and volume to speak clearly and coherently. ACELY1688
  • Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations incorporating learned content and taking into account the particular purposes and audiences. ACELY1689
  • English / Year 4 / Language / Language for interaction Understand differences between the language of opinion and feeling and the language of factual reporting or recording. ACELA1489

General capabilities

  • Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability

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