Future Thinking Capability

Capability Aims
Students identify the bases of ethical principles. Students engage with the challenges of managing ethical decision making and action for individuals and groups.

Students develop the capacity to be informed, responsible and active citizens who can contribute to the development of a world that is environmentally sustainable and socially just.

Students take positive action to protect, enhance and advocate for their own and others’ health, wellbeing and safety.

Understanding Concepts, Decision Making & Actions, Environmental Change, Healthy & Active Communities

Understanding Concepts
Investigate the connections and distinctions between fairness and equality, and respect and tolerance.

Explore a range of ethical problems.

Decision Making & Actions
Investigate how different factors involved in ethical decision-making can be managed by people and groups.

Environmental Change & Management
Environmental, economic and technological factors that influence environmental change and human responses to its management.

Environmental worldviews of people and their implications for environmental management.

Contributing to Healthy & Active Communities
Plan, implement and critique strategies to enhance the health, safety and wellbeing of their communities.Plan and evaluate interventions that promote own and others’ connection to community and natural and built environments, and how these interventions may work towards their preferred future.

Achievement Standards – by the end of Level 10

Understanding Concepts
Students identify and explain ethical concepts, including fairness, equality, respect and tolerance.

Student analyse a range of ethical problems.

Decision Making & Actions
Students explain how different factors involved in ethical decision-making can be managed.

Environmental Change & Management
Students evaluate alternative views on environmental challenges and strategies to address them.

Contributing to Healthy & Active Communities
Students compare and contrast a range of actions that could be undertaken to develop their preferred future and enhance their own and others’ health, safety and wellbeing.