In Levels 7 and 8, students make and respond to dance, independently, with their peers, teachers and communities. They explore dance forms and styles through choreography and performance and by exploring ideas and intentions, forms and elements.
Working within their own body capabilities, students...
Level description | The Arts | Dance
In Levels 3 and 4, students make and respond to dance independently, collaboratively with peers and teachers, and as an audience for other dancers’ work.
Students extend their awareness of how the whole body and different parts, zone and bases can be used to communicate ideas. They explore and...
Level description | The Arts | Dance
In Levels 5 and 6, students are making and responding to dance independently and collaboratively with their peers, teachers and communities.
Students further develop their awareness of the body, their control and accuracy of body actions and their understanding of safe dance practice. They extend...
Level description | The Arts | Dance
In Levels 9 and 10, students develop a personal movement vocabulary that is informed by knowledge of dance from different cultures, times and locations.
Students build on their awareness of how the body can be used to communicate dance ideas and how it is used in specific dance styles. They...
Level description | The Arts | Dance
By the end of Level 2, students describe the purpose of familiar designed solutions and how they meet the needs of users and affect others and environments. They identify the features and uses of some technologies for each of the prescribed technologies contexts.
With guidance, students create...
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Foundation to Level 2
In Foundation to Level 2 students explore and investigate technologies, including their purpose and how they meet personal and social needs within local settings. Students develop an understanding of how society and environmental sustainability factors influence design and technologies decisions...
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies
By the end of Level A, students react to significant designed solutions that meet their needs.
With guidance, students experience designed solutions in at least one technologies context. They begin to communicate their needs and indicate a choice or preference through accept and reject actions.
Studen...
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level A
In Level A, students are exposed to technologies, including its purpose and how technologies meet every day personal needs.
Students experience the characteristics and properties of some familiar designed solutions from one of the technologies contexts:
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies
By the end of Level B, students are using some familiar designed solutions appropriately to meet their needs.
With guidance, students explore designed solutions in at least one technologies context. They experience designed solution ideas and select materials and components based on personal preferences.
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level B
In Level B students explore technologies, including its purpose and how technologies meet personal and social needs.
Students examine the characteristics and properties of some technologies from one of the technologies contexts:
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies
By the end of Level C, students use and identify the purpose of familiar designed solutions. They match some designed solutions to a need.
Students use designed solutions in at least two technologies contexts. With guidance, students reflect on created and produced designed solutions, developing...
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level C
In Level C students explore and investigate technologies, including its purpose and how technologies meet needs.
Students describe the characteristics and properties of familiar designed solutions from one of the technologies contexts:
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies
By the end of Level D, students describe the purpose of familiar designed solutions and what needs they meet.
Students use designed solutions in at least two technologies contexts, identifying significant features.
With guidance, students create designed solutions evaluating their ideas based on...
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level D
In Level D students explore and investigate technologies, including its purpose and how technologies meet personal and social needs within local settings.
Students explore the characteristics and properties of familiar designed solutions from one of the technologies contexts:
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies
By the end of Level 10 students explain how people working in design and technologies occupations consider factors that impact on design decisions and the technologies used to create designed solutions. They identify the changes necessary to designed solutions to realise preferred futures they...
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Levels 9 and 10
By the end of Level 6 students describe some competing considerations in the design of solutions taking into account sustainability. They describe how design and technologies contribute to meeting present and future needs. Students explain how the features of technologies impact on designed solutions...
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Levels 5 and 6
By the end of Level 4 students explain how solutions are designed to best meet needs of the communities and their environments. They describe contributions of people in design and technologies occupations. Students describe how the features of technologies can be used to create designed solutions...
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Levels 3 and 4
By the end of Level 8 students explain factors that influence the design of solutions to meet present and future needs. They explain the contribution of design and technology innovations and enterprise to society. Students explain how the features of technologies impact on designed solutions and...
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Levels 7 and 8
In Levels 9 and 10, students use design thinking, design and technologies knowledge and understanding, processes and production skills to produce designed solutions to identified needs or opportunities of relevance to individuals, local, national, regional and global communities.
Students undertake...
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies
In Levels 5 and 6, students critically examine technologies that are used regularly in the home and in local, national, regional or global communities, with consideration of society, ethics and social and environmental sustainability factors. Students consider why and for whom technologies were developed.
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies