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• VCCCTM087

  Experience ways to express their thinking, including expression of ideas and feelings about learning

  Elaborations

  • persisting when trying something new or solving a problem and attempting different ideas and solutions
  • reflecting on knowledge and learning and communicating what is new
  • initiating how they feel about different learning experiences and what they found hard
  • reflecting on their work and indicating when they are finished, how they have improved and what they are proud of

  VCCCTM087 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level D | Meta-Cognition

• VCNRU016

  Recognise that Australia has speakers of many different languages, including the language being studied, and that languages borrow words from each other and sometimes use the same alphabet symbols and vocabulary

  Elaborations

  • understanding and recognising, where applicable, the similar order of letters and comparing the lower and uppercase alphabet in the language and English-alphabet letters
  • understanding that there are many everyday words and names in English that have origins in other languages, for example, alphabet, telephone, echidna, eucalyptus, disco, hippopotamus, Zoe

  VCNRU016 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Foundation to Level 2 | Understanding | Language variation and change

• VCCCTQ023

  Identify and form links and patterns from multiple information sources to generate non-routine ideas and possibilities

  Elaborations

  • discussing how looking for factors such as underlying skills, causes, or processes can assist in finding links across apparently unconnected sources
  • examining the approach to a particular problem in multiple sources and looking for patterns in approaches, for example in creating a text comparing written, spoken and multi-modal sources for patterns in how they represent a particular aesthetic effect or emotion
  • exploring arts works from a particular movement unfamiliar to them, identifying links between the works to identify the style, and creating their own work using that style
  • when creating a new game, exploring a comparison of invasion game movements as a strategy to construct a new movement sequence

  VCCCTQ023 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 5 and 6 | Questions and Possibilities

• VCCCTM009

  Investigate ways to problem-solve, using egocentric and experiential language

  Elaborations

  • discussing sequencing of steps as a problem-solving approach in response to a ‘how do I…?’ problem, and experimenting with different sequences
  • using number sentences as a problem-solving approach to solve a worded problem involving quantities, and thinking out loud to a partner while constructing these sentences, for example ‘I want to know how many farm animals have escaped. I can see that…’

  VCCCTM009 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Foundation to Level 2 | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTR024

  Investigate common reasoning errors including contradiction and inconsistency, and the influence of context

  Elaborations

  • using an example such as the statement: "I love chocolate and I hate chocolate" to discuss whether different contexts can explain apparent inconsistencies
  • identifying an apparent contradiction in a point of view and discussing whether clarifying what is meant would resolve it; for example, clarifying that apparently having time to pay attention to the teacher but not to read the textbook is not a contradiction about wanting to learn but rather an indication of difficulty in understanding the textbook

  VCCCTR024 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 5 and 6 | Reasoning

• VCNRC044

  Engage in intercultural experiences, comparing ways of communicating in Australian and speaking contexts of the language being studied and identifying ways that culture influences language use

  Elaborations

  • investigating aspects of own language use that reflect own cultural perspective and experiences, for example, using colloquialisms and idioms such as g’day, howzat, this arvo, mozzie
  • reflecting on situations where interactions in the target language have felt awkward or difficult, discussing own reactions and adjustments
  • considering what linguistic or cultural information they would need to know in order to visit a school in a country where the target language is spoken and talking about adjustments they may need to make in language use and behaviour

  VCNRC044 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 5 and 6 | Communicating | Reflecting

• VCCCTQ034

  Synthesise information from multiple sources and use lateral thinking techniques to draw parallels between known and new solutions and ideas when creating original proposals and artefacts

  Elaborations

  • identifying how scientists collaborate and may use natural forms as an inspiration to solve a problem, for example using the structure of humpback whale fins to develop and improve wind turbines
  • creating a set of words and images of simple objects that can be shuffled, selected at random and linked to the problem at hand, to stimulate thinking when experiencing a creativity block
  • discussing how acquiring data from a range of sources can improve the range of proposed digital solutions
  • investigating the similarities between algorithms used for different purposes, and synthesising this information into a more general algorithm for broader applications

  VCCCTQ034 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 7 and 8 | Questions and Possibilities

• VCCCTR027

  Examine the difference between valid and sound arguments and between inductive and deductive reasoning, and their degrees of certainty

  Elaborations

  • exploring the link between probability and inductive reasoning, for example when conducting chance experiments
  • discussing how predictions in science can be based on inductive reasoning, for example making predictions based past observations; or deductive reasoning, for example making predictions based on general rules
  • investigating how an argument can be logically valid but not sound for example All gladiators were men, the person in this historical source is a female, therefore, the person could not have been a gladiator, when some gladiators were female (premise one is false) and the person in the picture was actually male (premise two is false)
  • examining the distinction between sound and valid arguments in the context of a topic such as stereotyping; for example ‘All boys can run faster than girls, we only need fast runners for this team, therefore boys should be picked for this team’

  VCCCTR027 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 5 and 6 | Reasoning