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• VCCCTM020

  Investigate a range of problem-solving strategies, including brainstorming, identifying, comparing and selecting options, and developing and testing hypotheses

  Elaborations

  • identifying and applying techniques to improve brainstorming such as setting time limits or swapping notes part way through to then build on another’s ideas
  • undertaking trials to develop an hypothesis about the relationship between two variables, for example between the angle of a boomerang and distance, and reflecting on how hypotheses can be used to make predictions for different purposes

  VCCCTM020 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 3 and 4 | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTM018

  Consider concrete and pictorial models to facilitate thinking, including a range of visualisation strategies

  Elaborations

  • drawing a picture to represent a descriptive text, such as a written description of a place, person or object, comparing pictures with others and discussing similarities and differences in interpretations
  • suggesting and using pictorial modelling as a strategy to assist in drawing a conclusion, for example suggesting using a bar graph to show ranking of preferences in response to a survey

  VCCCTM018 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 3 and 4 | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTM019

  Examine an increased range of learning strategies, including visualisation, note-taking, peer instruction and incubation, and reflect on how these can be applied to different tasks to reach a goal

  Elaborations

  • discussing different uses of visualisation as a learning strategy, for example to improve learning of a process or technique, to clarify a goal or to improve concentration
  • experimenting with allowing different times between practising spelling lists and reflecting on what was more effective

  VCCCTM019 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 3 and 4 | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTQ010

  Construct and use open and closed questions for different purposes

  Elaborations

  • providing a range of sample questions about a text and asking students to classify them in terms of having one right answer and many different possibilities
  • constructing and using closed and open questions, for example to investigate the characteristics of a place and how people describe these characteristics
  • elaborating on closed questions to transform them into open questions, for example for the purpose of gathering a range of data

  VCCCTQ010 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 3 and 4 | Questions and Possibilities

• VCCCTQ011

  Explore reactions to a given situation or problem and consider the effect of pre-established preferences

  Elaborations

  • examining health messages about particular foods and reflecting on whether their reaction to the message is influenced by whether they like the food or not
  • examining how a particular win/loss record might establish expectations for future outcomes
  • making predictions, for example about the buoyancy of objects in different liquids, then posing questions such as ‘how did our previous knowledge about the buoyancy of an object affect our predictions?’

  VCCCTQ011 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 3 and 4 | Questions and Possibilities

• VCCCTQ012

  Investigate different techniques to sort facts and extend known ideas to generate novel and imaginative ideas

  Elaborations

  • using a table to compare observable features of living, non-living and once living things; creating a checklist of what makes something living; and using the table and checklist to imagine a new living creature
  • using a technique such as ‘SCAMPER’ to generate novel ideas for the use of particular objects, for example adapting an object originally intended for cooking to be a musical instrument
  • exploring the technique of breaking down a movement sequence into its smaller parts and then rethinking the combination of those parts when creating a new movement sequence
  • exploring strategies to determine the strength of rules to explain patterns of numbers or shapes

  VCCCTQ012 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 3 and 4 | Questions and Possibilities

• VCCCTR017

  Explore distinctions when organising and sorting information and ideas from a range of sources

  Elaborations

  • discussing what things have in common and what is different and identifying the differences as distinctions, for example comparing music instruments from different cultures
  • using a graphic organiser to identify the category that things have in common and the differences within the category and reporting on the distinctions, for example categorising materials as solid or liquid and identifying differences within each category
  • discussing why distinctions may need to be made when developing a packaging design solution, for example to find the material that is the strongest or most durable; most environmental friendly; cheapest

  VCCCTR017 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 3 and 4 | Reasoning

• VCCCTR015

  Investigate why and when the consequences of a point of view should be considered

  Elaborations

  • discussing consequences of different alternatives and why doing this is useful, for example, to enable a plan to minimise negative impacts on people or the environment
  • considering when consequences of actions might need to be explicitly deliberated, for example when actions affect more than one group or individual; or, could involve risk or harm; or, are aimed at achieving a specific goal or design solution
  • distinguishing between good and bad consequences from different points of view

  VCCCTR015 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 3 and 4 | Reasoning

• VCCCTR016

  Identify and use ‘If, then…’ and ‘what if…’ reasoning

  Elaborations

  • using the sentence starter ‘What if…’ to explore possible consequences
  • using ‘what if…’ or ‘imagine that…’ to find examples to explore the strength of suggestions
  • identifying how ‘if, then…’ reasoning can be used to move from separate pieces of information to a conclusion, for example reasoning from historical sources (i) If a First Fleet convict in the colony were found guilty of a crime then they were punished; and (ii) this convict was found guilty of being disrespectful; to (iii) inferring the convict went on to be punished

  VCCCTR016 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 3 and 4 | Reasoning

• VCCCTR014

  Distinguish between main and peripheral ideas in own and others information and points of view

  Elaborations

  • annotating an argument with different colours or using a concept map to show the most important and less important information and explaining their annotations to others
  • experimenting with arguments by changing the order of ideas and discussing effectiveness
  • creating a bumper sticker or headline to show the main idea in a point of view
  • comparing different responses to identify main ideas and information, for example on why people participate in community activities

  VCCCTR014 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 3 and 4 | Reasoning

• VCCCTR013

  Examine and use the structure of a basic argument, with an aim, reasons and conclusion to present a point of view

  Elaborations

  • drawing the structure of a basic argument using digital and non-digital technologies
  • dropping and dragging jumbled sentences from an argument into order and explaining and comparing different orderings using digital technologies or hard copy cards
  • providing a prompt and sentence starters to structure arguments for and against a claim, for example that “Ignoring teasing is the best response”

  VCCCTR013 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 3 and 4 | Reasoning