Light LearningEvery topic a child covers in Year 10 under the Australian Curriculum v9.0 (ACARA), as the app teaches it. 22 topics across 15 subjects: Art, Physical education, Health, Computing, Social studies, Music, Drama, Business studies, Economics, Mathematics, English, Writing, Physics, Chemistry, Biology.
This is the real list, not a summary. Each line is one topic in Light Learning, in the words of the Australia programme rather than reworded.
Mathematics
8 topics in Mathematics this year.
Quadratic equations
- Years 10 to 12: solving x² equations by factorising, and what the two answers mean on the graph. At Year 10: factorising a quadratic, solving by factorising.
Simultaneous equations
- Years 10 to 12: two unknowns and two facts, solved together and then checked. At Year 10: solving by elimination, solving by substitution, checking the pair.
Trigonometry
- Years 10 to 12: sine, cosine and tangent, and the two triangles the exact values come from. At Year 10: the three ratios, exact values, finding a missing side.
Sequences and series
- Years 10 to 12: finding any term without listing the ones before it, and summing a run of them. At Year 10: the nth term of an arithmetic sequence.
Straight lines and graphs
- Years 10 to 12: reading a line off two points, and writing the equation that describes it. At Year 10: gradient from two points, the equation of a line.
Number in senior years
- Years 10 to 12: very large and very small numbers, indices and surds, handled without a calculator. At Year 10: standard form, laws of indices.
Financial mathematics
- Years 10 to 12: the arithmetic of money over time, which is the mathematics most adults actually need. At Year 10: compound interest.
Statistics and probability in senior years
- Years 10 to 12: spread as well as average, and probability treated as a distribution. At Year 10: measures of spread.
Art
1 topic in Art this year.
Senior art
- Years 10 to 12: sustained personal projects, working to a brief, and writing about art as well as making it. Working at Year 10: a sustained project, working to a set brief, critical study.
Physical education
1 topic in Physical education this year.
Coaching, officiating and analysis
- Senior work: leading a session, officiating a game, and analysing performance with numbers rather than impressions. At Year 10: planning a session, officiating properly, analysing performance, training principles.
Health
1 topic in Health this year.
Health in the wider world
- Senior work: how health is measured across a population, and what actually changes it. At Year 10: public health, reading health claims, long-term conditions.
Computing
1 topic in Computing this year.
Senior computing
- Senior work: writing real programs, storing data properly, and the ethics that come with both. At Year 10: data structures, databases, algorithms and efficiency, testing and validation.
Social studies
1 topic in Social studies this year.
Senior humanities
- Senior work: history and geography as arguments made from evidence, and how a state actually functions. At Year 10: writing a historical argument, population and development, systems of government.
Music
1 topic in Music this year.
Senior music
- Senior work: analysing a set piece, composing to a brief, and performing prepared repertoire. At Year 10: analysing a set work, composing to a brief, performing prepared music.
Drama
1 topic in Drama this year.
Senior drama
- Senior work: devising, directing, and writing about performance as well as making it. At Year 10: devising, directing, practitioners and styles, writing about performance.
Business studies
1 topic in Business studies this year.
Senior business
- Senior work: reading real accounts, planning marketing, and judging a decision on the numbers. At Year 10: ratio analysis, budgeting and forecasting, marketing.
Economics
1 topic in Economics this year.
Senior economics
- Senior work: markets that fail, policy that tries to fix them, and the trade-offs in both. At Year 10: market failure, fiscal and monetary policy, international trade.
English
1 topic in English this year.
Senior English
- Years 10 to 12: whole texts read closely, arguments built and defended, and writing under examination conditions. At Year 10: studying a whole text, poetry comparison, unseen texts, literary technique, building an essay argument, using evidence, writing to time, spoken language.
Writing
1 topic in Writing this year.
Senior writing
- Years 10 to 12: sustained writing that holds an argument, and writing to a specification. At Year 10: the extended essay, writing to a specification, editing at length.
Physics
1 topic in Physics this year.
Senior physics
- Years 10 to 12: motion, energy and electricity treated quantitatively, with the equations that go with them. At Year 10: equations of motion, newton’s laws, electric circuits, quantitatively.
Chemistry
1 topic in Chemistry this year.
Senior chemistry
- Years 10 to 12: the mole, equations that balance, and reactions predicted rather than remembered. At Year 10: balanced equations, bonding, energy in reactions.
Biology
1 topic in Biology this year.
Senior biology
- Years 10 to 12: cells, inheritance and systems, at the level examinations at sixteen and eighteen ask for. At Year 10: cell division, dna and inheritance, enzymes, respiration and photosynthesis.