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• Science: Level A description

  In Level A, students learn that their senses can help them understand the world around them and the objects within it. They experience a range of activities that will assist them to attend to and explore the world around them with as much independence as possible. They are exposed to and encouraged...

  Level description | Science

• English: Level A description

  In Level A, students begin to engage, participate and receive communication with known adults, teachers and peers. Opportunities are provided for students to explore English knowledge, understanding, skills and processes through everyday experiences, personal interests and significant events....

  Level description | English

• VCAMUE001

  Exposure to sound and silence and ways of using voice, movement and/or instruments

  Elaborations

  • explore the sound, smell and feel of various objects, such as the crunching of dry leaves or the sound and feel of guitar strings, body part moving, clapping, tapping
  • exposed to different ways of making sound and to create music such as coactively participate in songs and rhymes, safe use of musical instruments
  • exposed to music elements such as sound and silence, beat and tempo; loud, soft; high, low; long and short
  • supported to use different parts of the body to explore rhythm and sound
  • reacting to a range of musical sounds
  • reacting to patterns and musical pieces

  VCAMUE001 | The Arts | Music | Level A | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCSSU002

  Living things are part of the world around us

  Elaborations

  • experiencing a variety of living things in a range of situations such as pets at school, plants in a garden, animals on a farm or in the school grounds
  • responding to the characteristics of different things, for example, texture of their covering, softness, size, sounds they make

  VCSSU002 | Science | Level A | Science Understanding | Biological sciences

• VCDSTS001

  Experience how people create familiar designed solutions to meet their needs

  Elaborations

  • experiencing designed solutions such as harvesting products from the school garden
  • being exposed to people making design decisions based on personal needs. For example, the types of tools and equipment used in the school garden
  • experiencing the use and impact of technologies in their life such as types of outdoor play equipment

  VCDSTS001 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level A | Technologies and Society

• VCHHC005

  Experience narratives about a person or the past

  Elaborations

  • experiencing retellings of significant events within their community, family and school life through multisensory experiences and texts
  • experiencing the construction of a narrative about a recent significant event
  • viewing various text and representation of their family, life and significant events

  VCHHC005 | The Humanities | History | Level A | Historical Concepts and Skills | Historical significance

• VCDTDI002

  React to patterns and different types of data and experience how data is sorted and represented as images using digital systems

  Elaborations

  • experiencing how their movements can create sounds and visual effects
  • using numeric data and displaying them as images, for example selecting and displaying photos of classmates who are present at school on a given day
  • experiencing the use of visual data, for example searching through a school-based digital photo library to select an image of themselves and significant people in their life
  • experiencing different types of data processing by digital systems, for example images, sound, text and numbers

  VCDTDI002 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level A | Data and Information

• VCADAR004

  React to dance

  Elaborations

  • experience dance in their lives and as part of the school and local community, for example, experiencing dance which communicates cultural knowledge
  • exposed to dance that show that people have different feelings, experiences and ways of dancing
  • reacting to specific element within a dance for example movements the dancers perform, what are they wearing, kind of music are they dancing to

  VCADAR004 | The Arts | Dance | Level A | Respond and Interpret

• 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

• VCSSU004

  Changes in the world around us can affect responses

  Elaborations

  • making decisions about clothing, location and activity based on their reaction to, and changes in, the weather
  • demonstrating an awareness of the time of day by responding to activities associated with different times of the day, for example, eating lunch, getting dressed to go to school, packing bags to go home

  VCSSU004 | Science | Level A | Science Understanding | Earth and space sciences

• VCDTDS001

  React to the use of some common digital systems, (hardware and software components), as they experience their purpose

  Elaborations

  • experiencing digital systems used within everyday life and school programs, for example phones, printers, cameras, multimedia presentations, tablets, games
  • using voice and body movements to make sounds in a microphone
  • experiencing cause and effect devices, for example touch keys on a banana keyboard
  • experiencing and playing with switches, for example a jelly bean switch
  • experiencing changes in a program due to the activation/deactivation of a switch by another, coactively or through individual exploration

  VCDTDS001 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level A | Digital Systems

• VCELA024

  Use sounds and facial expressions to affect familiar others

  Elaborations

  • encountering various languages and forms of communication at home, school and in the community
  • experiencing others engaging, communicating and changing things in the world around them
  • reacting to the sounds and voices of familiar others
  • reacting to a range of gestures, signs, images and facial features of familiar others
  • using sounds, noises, gestures, eye gaze etc. to gain attention or request an object, e.g. reaching towards something they want
  • turning towards a communication partner

  VCELA024 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCHHK010

  Commemorate significant events

  Elaborations

  • experiencing significant events and using senses to explore objects used to celebrate these, such as cake, balloons, music
  • reacting to elements of a significant cultural events, e.g. aboriginal music, dance, multimedia story during NAIDOC Week celebrations
  • participating in significant commemorative and cultural events of their family, school and community through preparation activities and celebration, e.g. footy day, Anzac Day, Easter

  VCHHK010 | The Humanities | History | Level A | Historical Knowledge | Community histories

• VCAVAR004

  React to visual artworks

  Elaborations

  • experiencing a range and various forms of visual art and may react to some stimuli such as images and objects or respond to art experiences, for example maintain attention, visual tracking
  • experiencing art in their lives and communities, for example, art gallery, local coffee shops, exhibitions with the school, special events visual artworks that sustain and communicate cultural knowledge
  • exposed to artworks which are from and made for different reasons/ purposes, displayed in different ways and using different processes
  • exposed to different design elements, such as line, shape, colour or texture, in their artworks and in the artwork of others
  • exposed to the role of artist and audience

  VCAVAR004 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Level A | Respond and Interpret