Cisco GPS - The Social Enterprise

Australian curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 6 HASS:

• The reasons businesses exist and the different ways they provide goods and services (ACHASSK151)
• Locate and collect relevant information and data from primary sources and secondary sources (ACHASSI123)
• Evaluate evidence to draw conclusions (ACHASSI129)
• Work in groups to generate responses to issues and challenges (ACHASSI130)
• Present ideas, findings, viewpoints and conclusions in a range of texts and modes that incorporate source materials, digital and non-digital representations and discipline-specific terms and conventions (ACHASSI133)

Syllabus outcomes: GE3-4

General capabilities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking

Relevant parts of Year 6 HASS achievement standards: Students identify the purpose of business and recognise the different ways that businesses choose to provide goods and services. They locate and collect useful data and information from primary and secondary sources. They reflect on their learning to propose action in response to an issue or challenge and describe the probable effects of their proposal. They present ideas, findings, viewpoints and conclusions in a range of communication forms that incorporate source materials, mapping, graphing, communication conventions and discipline-specific terms.

• Student Worksheet – one copy per student
• Device capable of presenting a website to the class

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• Communication
• Collaboration
• Teamwork

These lessons have been developed in partnership with Cisco. Cisco believes that our future will be defined by global problem solvers – global citizens ready to thrive in a connected and digital future by thinking like entrepreneurs, innovating like technologists, and acting as agents of social change.