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• Dance: Levels 1 and 2 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 2 students use the elements of dance and fundamental movement skills to make and perform safely, dance sequences that express ideas.

  Students communicate about dances they make, perform and view, and discuss where and why people dance.

  Level description | The Arts | Dance | Levels 1 and 2

• Dance: Levels 1 and 2 description

  In Levels 1 and 2, students continue their exploration of how dance can communicate ideas about themselves and their world and they make dances to express their ideas. They share their dance with peers and in informal settings, learn about safe dance practice and experience dance as audiences.

  As ...

  Level description | The Arts | Dance

• Drama: Levels 1 and 2 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 2, students make and present drama using the elements of role, situation and focus in dramatic play and improvisation.

  Students describe what happens in drama they make, perform and view. They identify some elements in drama and describe where and why there is drama.

  Level description | The Arts | Drama | Levels 1 and 2

• Drama: Levels 1 and 2 description

  In Levels 1 and 2, students continue their exploration and learning about how ideas and stories can be imagined and communicated through drama. They improvise and create roles, characters and situations and learn about focus and identifying the main idea of the drama. They share their drama with...

  Level description | The Arts | Drama

• Media Arts: Levels 1 and 2 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 2, students describe the media artworks that they make and view, and describe where and why media artworks are made.

  Students use the story principles of structure, character, intent and setting, media technologies and the elements of media arts to make and share media artworks.

  Level description | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 1 and 2

• Media Arts: Levels 1 and 2 description

  In Levels 1 and 2, students explore media arts and experiment with story and elements of media arts. They develop an understanding of a range of media artworks. They make and share their media artworks as artists and audience.

  Students become aware of structure, intent, character and settings as...

  Level description | The Arts | Media Arts

• Music: Levels 1 and 2 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 2 students use imagination, their voices and instruments to improvise, compose, arrange and perform music. They explore and make decisions about ways of organising sounds to communicate ideas. They achieve intended effects and demonstrate accuracy when performing and composing.

  Th...

  Level description | The Arts | Music | Levels 1 and 2

• Music: Levels 1 and 2 description

  In Levels 1 and 2, students listen to and experiment with a range of sounds. They develop skills in imagining and creating and performing music which explores their ideas about the world. Students share their music with peers. They present music for school events and experience diverse music as...

  Level description | The Arts | Music

• VCADAD022

  Use choreographic devices to select and organise movement ideas and create and practise dance sequences

  Elaborations

  • practising fundamental movements such as walking, running, marching, galloping, skipping, crawling, bending, stretching, twisting and turning, focusing on technical skills of body control, posture, strength, balance and coordination
  • devising a range of body shapes and travelling movements suggested by action words focusing on the dynamic qualities, for example, rising, jumping, stopping, falling, opening, closing and then use the devices of repetition and contrast to form dance sequences
  • using questions as part of the dance-making process, for example, asking how ideas are communicated in this dance, how they are varying speeds, levels, directions?
  • exploring movement possibilities and making choices about ways of communicating emotions or observations about the texture of an object, for example, eating something sticky
  • making decisions about how a short dance will begin and end, refining and evaluating options through feedback, practice and repetition

  VCADAD022 | The Arts | Dance | Levels 1 and 2 | Dance Practices

• VCADAE021

  Use safe dance practice, fundamental locomotor and non-locomotor movements, body parts, bases and zones to explore, improvise and structure movement ideas for dance

  Elaborations

  • trialling ways of safely using the whole body and different body parts, bases and zones to communicate ideas, experiences and feelings, for example, making a rounded shape to explore ideas about enclosed spaces
  • exploring options for creating and extending movements, alone and then with a partner, for example, forming and changing shapes within space
  • using questions to explore ways of using forms and elements, for example, dancers consider how they can communicate an emotion or idea, how a shape can be varied, how two shapes can be combined
  • using stimulus materials to explore ideas for dance, for example, using percussion instruments or body percussion to explore how movements can be varied by performing them at different speeds, or identifying patterns in images and recreating the ideas through movement

  VCADAE021 | The Arts | Dance | Levels 1 and 2 | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCADAP023

  Use simple technical and expressive skills when presenting dance that communicates ideas about themselves and their world to an audience

  Elaborations

  • rehearsing learned dance sequences in the performance space, discussing feedback and making changes to enhance communication with the audience
  • combining movement and the use of props such as scarves when presenting dance
  • performing a dance they have created to the class focusing on using appropriate facial expressions and maintaining safe dance practices
  • using questions to interpret dance they view, for example, what did this dance make them think about and why?, what shapes can they see in the dance?, how are the movements combined?

  VCADAP023 | The Arts | Dance | Levels 1 and 2 | Present and Perform

• VCADAR024

  identify where people can experience dance in the local community, for example, talking with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people about how dance sustains and communicates cultural knowledge

  Elaborations

  • identifying where people can experience dance in the local community, for example, keeping a diary of ‘dance experiences’ and discussing how dance sustains and communicate cultural knowledge
  • recognising that dance can show that people have different feelings about the world based on their experiences
  • using questions to explore the societies and cultures of dance they view, for example, when is this dance performed?, who made the dance?, how do people learn this dance?
  • recognising and describing patterns of movement in dances they make, perform and view, using their own words and learnt dance terminology

  VCADAR024 | The Arts | Dance | Levels 1 and 2 | Respond and Interpret

• VCADRD022

  Use voice, facial expression, movement and space to imagine and establish role and situation

  Elaborations

  • communicating verbally by using the voice to explore and show role and situation
  • communicating non-verbally by using facial expression and movement to explore and show role and situation
  • practising movement within a space to create the difference between their performance space and the audience space
  • manipulating objects, puppets, 2D images and available technologies to create stories
  • responding to feedback as they develop their drama, for example, responding to questions such as ‘how is the character’s mood communicated?, why did they use a freeze-frame (tableaux) in their drama?’

  VCADRD022 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 1 and 2 | Drama Practices

• VCADRE021

  Explore roles, characters and dramatic action in dramatic play, improvisation and process drama

  Elaborations

  • taking part in small-group improvisations and story-telling, focusing on experiencing the roles and situations they create
  • taking turns in offering and accepting ideas
  • exploring possibilities for role and situation when participating in whole group teacher-led process drama and role-play
  • taking photos or videoing drama they devise to view and extend their drama ideas
  • using observations from drama they view to explore possibilities for drama they will make, for example, how did the performers use their voices, what sorts of movements did the performers use, and what voice and movement from others’ performances they might consider using when making their own drama, and why?

  VCADRE021 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 1 and 2 | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCADRP023

  Present drama that communicates ideas, including stories from their community, to an audience

  Elaborations

  • presenting scenes in which they apply story structures to set the scene, link action and create an ending, such as re-telling a cultural or community story with the assistance of representatives from the community
  • following cues and using voice and movement to link action, ideas and stories in their drama
  • considering meanings and interpretations when rehearsing and performing sequences of ideas to communicate stories through drama, for example, ‘what do they want the audience to think about their drama?
  • enhancing ideas and stories in their drama by using available software and technologies, for example, using a mobile device to add sound effects to a performance

  VCADRP023 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 1 and 2 | Present and Perform

• VCADRR024

  Respond to drama, expressing what they enjoy and why, and why people in their local area make and perform drama, including drama of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  Elaborations

  • identifying where they might experience drama in their community, for example, sharing experiences of attending a Tanderrum, or taking part in a drama performance in their community and considering how drama sustains and communicates cultural knowledge
  • talking about how voices, movement and space are used in drama they make and see
  • connecting to and sharing drama experiences through available digital access
  • discussing ways drama can show people’s different feelings about the world, based on their experiences of the environment and other people

  VCADRR024 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 1 and 2 | Respond and Interpret

• VCAMAE021

  Experiment with ideas and develop characters and settings through stories using images, sounds and text

  Elaborations

  • exploring and experimenting with sound to communicate ideas, for example, creating sound effects to enhance the mood of a story
  • experimenting with image, text and character, for example, retelling a story of the school day in a series of captioned images
  • experimenting with media technologies in still or moving images moving images to tell a story

  VCAMAE021 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 1 and 2 | Explore and Represent Ideas

• VCAMAM022

  Use media technologies to capture and edit images and sounds and text to tell stories

  Elaborations

  • using digital cameras to capture still or moving images, reviewing captured images, zooming in and out, and deleting unwanted images, to sequence a story
  • using sound recording technology to create, record and edit sound effects to support a story
  • using computer software to add captions to images to enhance meaning to a series of still images
  • selecting and arranging images, sounds and text to organise the structure of a story

  VCAMAM022 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 1 and 2 | Media Arts Practices

• VCAMAP023

  Create and present media artworks that communicate ideas and stories to an audience

  Elaborations

  • capturing and sequencing images and text in a multimodal presentation that demonstrates a range of stories
  • collecting and sharing stories from a range of community areas, starting with their local area, and including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and presenting them in a multimodal form
  • creating, rehearsing and recording a sound sequence for a specified audience
  • producing and presenting a media artwork for a particular purpose, for example, creating an animation based on a class discussion on a social issue or theme

  VCAMAP023 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 1 and 2 | Present and Perform

• VCAMAR024

  Respond to media artworks and consider where and why people in their local area make media artworks, including media artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  Elaborations

  • identifying where they might experience media artworks in their lives and communities, for example, considering how media artworks from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples sustain and communicate cultural knowledge
  • identifying the artistic intentions in media artworks they make and view
  • identifying features in media artworks, including elements such as time, sound, colour and lighting, and story principles such as characters and setting
  • identifying how media language and technologies are used to tell stories, for example, discussing how a family story is told using images and text

  VCAMAR024 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 1 and 2 | Respond and Interpret