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• Geography: Level D achievement standards

  By the end Level D, students label familiar routine places and some of their features and the related activities undertaken in these places. They recognise places can have a special purpose or connection for some people. Students reflect on their learning to suggest ways they can care for a familiar...

  Level description | The Humanities | Geography | Level D

• Geography: Level D description

  The Level D curriculum focuses on the features of places where students live focusing on developing student’s awareness, understanding and purpose of a place. Students are encouraged to be curious about a place and explore its local area. They use their senses to explore the tangible characteristics...

  Level description | The Humanities | Geography

• VCGGC045

  Identify personally significant places and their connection and importance

  Elaborations

  • exploring and identifying community places and what special events they are used for
  • experiencing and learning the functions of significant community facilities
  • experiencing and learning about significant local areas and why they are important and to who
  • participate in preparing for and celebrating significant local events in their connected place

  VCGGC045 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGC043

  Identify familiar places and their features, using photos and locational vocabulary

  Elaborations

  • identifying and labelling places they regularly visit
  • discussing the major features and spaces of each place, such as: What do I do here? What do I like/ dislike?
  • exploring all the spaces and features of a space and capturing images of a place
  • becoming familiar with the location of significant community facilities and the spaces within them

  VCGGC043 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGC048

  Answer yes/no questions about a place based on geographical observations and information

  Elaborations

  • identify a place and why they like it and what they like to do there
  • developing an awareness of environmental issues through participation in investigating of local community issue
  • investigating questions related to who, what, where why questions about a place
  • exploring elements and features of a place

  VCGGC048 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Data and information

• VCGGC046

  Reconstruct geographical data and information

  Elaborations

  • assisting to construct a recount of the journey to a place
  • comparing and contrasting images within a place and between places
  • labelling features and elements of a place within pictures and photos

  VCGGC046 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Data and information

• VCGGC047

  Model or draw key features of a familiar place

  Elaborations

  • collecting images, objects to represent a place or space
  • identifying a place by its significant feature
  • using three dimensional objects to construct a map of a familiar place and it’s spaces
  • creating a two dimensional representation of a familiar place

  VCGGC047 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Data and information

• VCGGC044

  Describe the location of a familiar place and the related activities

  Elaborations

  • identifying some key places and features of their journey to a place
  • identifying and participating in basic processes that enable them to use public transport to journey to significant places with supervision
  • using their own experience to identify places they like and their purpose

  VCGGC044 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGK056

  Places used regularly in the community, their location, activities undertaken in this place and frequency of visits

  Elaborations

  • using pictures, symbols, labels to identify features or spaces in a significant place
  • beginning to use special, locational and directional vocabulary
  • investigating places, activities and frequency of visits
  • exploring places and reason for visiting different places in the community

  VCGGK056 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK050

  How places can be defined at a variety of scales

  Elaborations

  • considering how street addresses define places locally, regionally and nationally
  • using large-scale and small-scale maps while investigating places and how they are defined

  VCGGK050 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK051

  The connection of their school and local community to other places in Australia and across the world

  Elaborations

  • investigating how local celebrations and events link to places in the world
  • exploring the location of places people have visited

  VCGGK051 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK054

  The major features of a place and their location

  Elaborations

  • participating in structured discussions about a place, exploring the major features and locations of familiar places
  • comparing characteristics of familiar places
  • answering questions about a place using a single word or short simple sentence

  VCGGK054 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK052

  The Countries/Places that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people belong to in the local area

  Elaborations

  • exploring local aboriginal Country/Places and what special events they are used for
  • investigating dreaming stories and their relationship to local features and places

  VCGGK052 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK055

  What people do in specific spaces

  Elaborations

  • assisting to construct a recount of what a place can be used for
  • identifying how they look after a place
  • identifying some rules about a place, for example, not running, quiet voice etc.
  • participating in structured activities which investigate different places and what they do and do not do in each place
  • identifying and following rules and expectations within a place

  VCGGK055 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK053

  Ways weather and seasons are described

  Elaborations

  • investigating the seasons and their associated weather, clothes and events
  • explore how local cultural groups view the seasons and related events

  VCGGK053 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK049

  Locating familiar places and label place and purpose

  Elaborations

  • assisting to create maps or models of significant places and the spaces within them
  • following simple maps of the school or classroom

  VCGGK049 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them