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Who Is a Customer?

Your child knows a customer is the person who buys what you make. They can think about what the customer wants, not just what they want to make.

In curriculum terms

Understanding that a customer is someone who buys what you make or do; thinking about what customers want and need; the idea that businesses serve people

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How to tell they’ve got it

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Try this together

If your child was planning to sell lemonade at a school event, could they think about what would make people want to buy their lemonade rather than someone else's?

Where this sits on the map

Stuck here? Check the skills it builds on first. Confident? Here’s what it unlocks.

Builds on
Buyers & Sellersages 5–7Must understand buyers and sellers before exploring customer concept in depth
Making Something to Sellages 5–7Making a product helps understand what customers want
Who Is a Customer?this skill · ages 5–7
Unlocks
Being a Good Sellerages 7–9Must understand customer concept before learning about customer service and trust
Having a Business Ideaages 7–9Must understand customers before spotting problems to solve for them
Marketing Basicsages 7–9Must understand customers before learning to reach them through marketing

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Curriculum alignment

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

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).

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