The Science curriculum has two interrelated strands: Science Understanding and Science Inquiry Skills. Together, the two strands of the science curriculum provide students with understanding, knowledge and skills through which they can develop a scientific view of the world.
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Overview material | Science
Mathematics is presented in 11 levels, from Foundation to Level 10.
Level 10 also includes Level 10A, which provides opportunities for students to extend their exploration of mathematical notions and further their mathematical studies.
The curriculum is organised into 6 interrelated...
Overview material | Mathematics Version 2.0
Critical and Creative Thinking is organised into three interrelated strands: Questions and Possibilities, Reasoning and Meta-Cognition.
| Strands | Questions and Possibilities | Reasoning | Meta-Cognition |
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| Explore the nature of questioning and a range of processes and techniques to develop ideas | Explore... |
Overview material | Critical and Creative Thinking
Geography is organised by two strands: Geographical Concepts and Skills and Geographical Knowledge.
Strand: Geographical Concepts and Skills
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| Place, space and interconnection |
| Data and information |
Strand: Geographical Knowledge
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Levels A – D Foundation – Level 2 | Places a... |
Overview material | Geography
The curriculum consists of two strands: Understanding Concepts and Decision Making and Actions.
| Strands | Understanding Concepts | Decision Making and Actions |
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Students explore:
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Overview material | Ethical Capability
The curriculum is structured around four strands each of which involves making and responding.
| Strand | Explore and Represent Ideas | Visual Communication Design Practices | Present and Perform | Respond and Interpret |
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| Exploring and experimenting with ideas and representations in Visual... |
Overview material | Visual Communication Design
The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority has developed a curriculum for Non-Roman Alphabet languages which will allow these languages to be offered by a Victorian school where there is no specific curriculum available.
Understanding the diverse language...
Overview material | Non-Roman Alphabet Languages
The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority has developed a curriculum for Roman Alphabet languages which will allow these languages to be offered by a Victorian school where there is no specific curriculum available.
Understanding the diverse language backgrounds...
Overview material | Roman Alphabet Languages
Mathematics provides students with access to important mathematical ideas, knowledge and skills that they will draw on in their personal and work lives. The curriculum also provides students, as life-long learners, with the basis on which further study and research in mathematics and...
Overview material | Mathematics
The Geography curriculum presents a structured way of exploring, analysing and understanding the characteristics of the places that make up our world, using the concepts of place, space, environment, interconnection, sustainability, scale and change. It addresses scales from the personal...
Overview material | Geography
In Design and Technologies, students are actively engaged in the processes of creating designed solutions for personal, domestic and global settings for a sustainable future. For younger children, this usually involves personal and family settings, where there is an immediate, direct and tangible...
Overview material | Design and Technologies
The Dance curriculum is structured around four interdependent strands, each of which involves making and responding.
| Strand | Explore and Express Ideas | Dance Practices | Present and Perform | Respond and Interpret |
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Focuses on exploring and shaping ideas to express and communicate intentions. Students... |
Overview material | Dance
The curriculum is structured around four interdependent strands, each of which involves making and responding.
| Strand | Explore and Express Ideas | Drama Practices | Present and Perform | Respond and Interpret |
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Focuses on imagining and creating characters, roles and situations. Students... |
Overview material | Drama
The curriculum is structured around four strands, each of which involves making and responding.
Strand | Explore and Represent Ideas | Media Arts Practices | Present and Perform | Respond and Interpret |
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Exploring and experimenting with ideas and representations using images, sound and text. Manipulating... |
Overview material | Media Arts
The curriculum is structured around four strands, each of which involves making and responding.
| Strand | Explore and Express Ideas | Visual Arts Practices | Present and Perform | Respond and Interpret |
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| Exploring, imagining, experimenting and expressing ideas, concepts, themes, values, beliefs, observations... |
Overview material | Visual Arts
History is organised by two strands: Historical Concepts and Skills and Historical Knowledge.
Historical Concepts and Skills are fundamental to the discipline of history and provide a structure for the development of historical understanding.
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| Chronology |
| Historical... |
Overview material | History
The Music curriculum is structured around four interdependent strands, each of which involves making and responding.
| Strand | Explore and Express Ideas | Music Practices | Present and Perform | Respond and Interpret |
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| Focuses on exploring sound and silence and ways of using voice, body percussion... |
Overview material | Music
Digital Technologies comprises of three related strands: Digital Systems, Data and Information, and Creating Digital Solutions.
| Strands | Digital Systems | Data and Information | Creating Digital Solutions |
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| Focuses on the hardware, software and network components of digital systems. Students initially... |
Overview material | Digital Technologies
Civics and Citizenship is organised by three strands: Government and Democracy, Laws and Citizens, and Citizenship, Diversity and Identity.
| Strands | Government and Democracy | Laws and Citizens | Citizenship, Diversity and Identity |
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| Involves a study of Australian democracy and the key institutions... |
Overview material | Civics and Citizenship
The Personal and Social Capability curriculum is organised into two interrelated strands: Self-Awareness and Management and Social Awareness and Management.
Each strand contains content descriptions that are organised in sub-strands.
| Strands | Self-Awareness and Management | Social Awareness... |
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Overview material | Personal and Social Capability
