How can you tell they’ve got it: Ethics in Business?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: Name at least two things that make a business ethical (fair wages, honest advertising, environmentally responsible); Explain why a business that only cares about profit might cause problems; Describe a situation where a business owner faces an ethical choice and suggest what they should do. Or just try it together: If your child heard about a company paying its workers very little to make bigger profits, could they explain why that's unfair and suggest a better approach?

Life Skills Entrepreneurship Ages 9–11

Ethics in Business

Your child knows a good business is fair and honest. It pays workers fairly, tells the truth in ads, and cares about more than money.

In curriculum terms

Being honest, being fair, treating workers well, not harming the environment; what makes a 'good' business; whether businesses should care about more than profit

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How to tell they’ve got it

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Name at least two things that make a business ethical (fair wages, honest advertising, environmentally responsible)
Explain why a business that only cares about profit might cause problems
Describe a situation where a business owner faces an ethical choice and suggest what they should do

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Try this together

If your child heard about a company paying its workers very little to make bigger profits, could they explain why that's unfair and suggest a better approach?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Being a Good Sellerages 7–9Must understand honest selling before examining broader business ethics

Fair Trade & Ethicsages 7–9Cross-domain: fair trade & ethics (Money & Finance) extends to business ethics

Social Enterpriseages 9–11Social enterprise awareness supports ethical business thinking

Supply Chainsages 9–11Supply chain knowledge reveals ethical issues in production and trade

Ethics in Businessthis skill · ages 9–11

Unlocks

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Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1).

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2TDE6S01low confidenceDesign and Technologies · Levels 5 and 6 · Technologies and Society strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

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