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• Geography: Level A achievement standards

  By the end of Level A, students recognise some personally significant places. They select preferred objects through reaching towards, accepting or rejecting actions.

  Students react to the familiar features of some personally significant places.

  Level description | The Humanities | Geography | Level A

• Geography: Level A description

  The Level A curriculum develops student’s awareness of a place on a personal local scale. Places will range in size from a part of a room or garden to community place. They are supported to use their senses to explore the tangible characteristics of a place such as the sound, smell, feel of significant...

  Level description | The Humanities | Geography

• VCGGC006

  React to an element of a place

  Elaborations

  • exposed to objects and features of a place
  • experience a place and elements within a place
  • reacting to the sensory information they receive from an object or feature within a space, for example, texture, smell

  VCGGC006 | The Humanities | Geography | Level A | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Data and information

• VCGGC003

  Experience places that are important for specific people and related activities

  Elaborations

  • exposed to the purpose of a space in a place, for example swimming in the middle pool at the local pool, shopping at supermarket at the local shops
  • exposed to special events and reacting to sensory element they experience, for example cream, face paint, whistle, sand, visual images
  • exposed to the caring and maintaining of a space, for example, watering, cleaning up
  • reacting to sensory element of an event or activity experienced in a place, for example decorations, food or parade

  VCGGC003 | The Humanities | Geography | Level A | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGC005

  React to images or sensory elements which represent preferred personally significant places

  Elaborations

  • exposed to elements within the place and their sensory characteristics
  • moving around exploring the spaces and distance within a place

  VCGGC005 | The Humanities | Geography | Level A | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Data and information

• VCGGC001

  Experience and react to a place and its features

  Elaborations

  • exposed to the sensory effect of the features of a place
  • experiencing the activities and people associated to a place
  • exposed to different peoples reaction and preferences to a places features

  VCGGC001 | The Humanities | Geography | Level A | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGC002

  React to familiar places and activities

  Elaborations

  • exposed to and experiencing a place regularly
  • reacting to sensory element of a place, for example significant sound, feel of objects and features, smell etc.
  • responding to significant people or objects within a significant place, for example smiling at a regular person in the place, moving to a preferred space in a place, reaching for a desired object

  VCGGC002 | The Humanities | Geography | Level A | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGC004

  Experience geographical information by using their senses

  Elaborations

  • exposed to environmental changes within a place
  • exposed to the collection and construction of texts which record different places, their features and their purpose
  • exposed to places being represented by images and photos
  • experiencing multimedia texts which represent the location of the places and/ or the location and features they pass on their way from school to the place

  VCGGC004 | The Humanities | Geography | Level A | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Data and information

• VCGGK007

  Experience the distance and location of familiar places

  Elaborations

  • exposed to being transported to different places
  • reacting to the experience of movement, significant people, objects or features experienced on the way to a place

  VCGGK007 | The Humanities | Geography | Level A | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK009

  Experience their connection to a place in Australia and across the world

  Elaborations

  • experience the purpose or special event/s of a space
  • experiencing the linking of special events and places to people, culture and other places
  • reacting to images of places

  VCGGK009 | The Humanities | Geography | Level A | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK011

  Experience weather and seasons

  Elaborations

  • exposed to weather conditions and their sensory characteristics
  • exposed to weather conditions being linked to pictures, words and images
  • experiencing the changing of clothing and activities due to the weather and the season

  VCGGK011 | The Humanities | Geography | Level A | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK008

  Experience personal places and their features represented on large-scale maps and models

  Elaborations

  • reacting to the features of a place
  • exposed to the collection and construction of texts which record different places, their features and their purpose
  • exposed to places and their features being represented by images and photos
  • experiencing places being represented in different ways and scales, for example through a series of large-scale bird's eye maps
  • exposed to sensory and visual representations of significant places, for example, thorough the use of daily timetable, or multimodal text of a daily task or activity

  VCGGK008 | The Humanities | Geography | Level A | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK013

  Experience the purpose of or the special event/s of a space

  Elaborations

  • exposed to the purpose of a space in a place, for example swimming in the middle pool at the local pool, shopping at supermarket at the local shops
  • exposed to special events and reacting to sensory element they experience, for example cream, face paint, whistle, sand, visual images
  • exposed to the caring and maintaining of a space, for example, watering, cleaning up
  • reacting to sensory element of an event or activity experienced in a place, for example decorations, food or parade

  VCGGK013 | The Humanities | Geography | Level A | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK012

  Experience and react to the sensory elements of a places

  Elaborations

  • exposed to elements within the place and their sensory characteristics
  • moving around exploring the spaces and distance within a place
  • experiencing the changing of a space and use of the space, for example construction and then participation in gym circuit or swimming session
  • reacting to the sensory information they receive from an object or feature within a space, for example, texture, smell

  VCGGK012 | The Humanities | Geography | Level A | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK014

  React to features and activities of a familiar place

  Elaborations

  • reacting to significant sensory elements of a space, for example object, texture, smell, sound
  • communicating a preference to a significant space, feature or activity within a place, for example physically going to a space or chair or equipment
  • reacting to changes in a place such as light, movement of equipment
  • exposed to events and activities associated with a space
  • coactively indicating some recognition of a place through participation in a program or activity

  VCGGK014 | The Humanities | Geography | Level A | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK010

  Experience local area dreaming stories and country/places

  Elaborations

  • exposed to place and word/s used by Aboriginal/ Torres Strait Islander peoples to describe for local area place/s
  • experiencing a multimodal retelling of a dreaming story
  • exposed to the sensory elements of country, for example sound, touch, sight
  • reacting to sensory elements of a significant feature of a countries/ place for example cold hard rock, cool water from a pool

  VCGGK010 | The Humanities | Geography | Level A | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them