How can you tell they’ve got it: Pitching an Idea?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: Deliver a 1-2 minute pitch for a business idea covering: what it is, who it helps, and why it's good; Answer at least two questions about their idea from an audience; Explain why being able to explain your idea clearly matters for getting support. Or just try it together: If your child had to stand up in front of the class and explain a business idea in two minutes, could they do it confidently and persuasively?

Life Skills Entrepreneurship Ages 9–11

Pitching an Idea

Your child can stand up and explain a business idea clearly: what it is, who it helps, and why it is good. They can answer questions about it too.

In curriculum terms

Presenting a business idea to others convincingly; explaining what makes it good and why people should support it; building confidence in public speaking about ideas

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How to tell they’ve got it

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Deliver a 1-2 minute pitch for a business idea covering: what it is, who it helps, and why it's good
Answer at least two questions about their idea from an audience
Explain why being able to explain your idea clearly matters for getting support

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Try this together

If your child had to stand up in front of the class and explain a business idea in two minutes, could they do it confidently and persuasively?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Making a Simple Planages 7–9Must be able to plan a business before pitching it

Marketing Basicsages 7–9Marketing skills support persuasive pitching

Pitching an Ideathis skill · ages 9–11

Unlocks

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solid = must come firstdashed = helps

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

VC2HG6S07low confidenceGeography · Levels 5 and 6 · Geographical Skills 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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