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• Science: Level B description

  In Level B, students play and use structured activities to make observations and use their senses to investigate the behaviours and properties of everyday objects, materials and living things. They explore change in the world around them, including changes that impact on them, for example the...

  Level description | Science

• VCSSU012

  Living things can look and feel different

  Elaborations

  • handling and observing living and non-living things
  • developing an emerging awareness of some essential characteristics of living things, for example, 'Eyes are for seeing’

  VCSSU012 | Science | Level B | Science Understanding | Biological sciences

• VCCCTM071

  Encounter everyday problems and learn how to solve them

  Elaborations

  • exploring objects and their appropriate use in structured situations
  • learning how to solve everyday problems through a set routine or process
  • learning to communicate their needs and request help

  VCCCTM071 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Meta-Cognition

• VCELY046

  Attend to texts that have a variety of contexts

  Elaborations

  • comparing and identifying things that are the ‘same’ and ‘different’ within texts
  • exploring texts with the same theme to identify things that are the ‘same’ and ‘different’

  VCELY046 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCCCTQ063

  Explore questions about the world around them

  Elaborations

  • experiencing the sensory characteristics of familiar objects and exploring what is the same and different
  • actively exploring objects and materials in a wide variety of familiar contexts and structured environments
  • exploring the answer to questions related to their feelings and preferences in structured experiences and situations
  • answering questions by making choices and experiencing the consequences

  VCCCTQ063 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Questions and Possibilities

• VCGGC015

  Explore the features of a place and demonstrate a preference for certain features

  Elaborations

  • indicating some of the features of the place when labelled, for example their chair, pigeon hole
  • identifying what they like in a place, by making choices in structured lesson such as selecting a book or finding a preferred activity.

  VCGGC015 | The Humanities | Geography | Level B | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCSIS017

  Explore using their senses

  Elaborations

  • beginning to use their senses, with teacher guidance, to explore and describe the world around them by tasting, smelling, seeing, touching and hearing
  • interacting with living things and objects, with teacher guidance, for example, comparing the textures of different animal coats, listening to different bird calls, comparing shapes and sizes of different containers

  VCSIS017 | Science | Level B | Science Inquiry Skills | Planning and conducting

• Health and Physical Education: Level B achievement standards

  By the end of Level B, students recognise themselves in mirror and photographs and explore the personal characteristics and capabilities they possess. Students express their feelings, needs, likes and dislikes through gesture and ‘yes’ and ‘no’ responses. Students recognise...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education | Level B

• Critical and Creative Thinking: Level B achievement standards

  By the end of Level B, students use their senses and cause and effect to explore and understand the world around them. Students generate ideas based on their experiences and make choices in structured situations.

  Students begin to become aware of their own point of view through their emotions...

  Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B

• Critical and Creative Thinking: Level B description

  In Level B, the curriculum focuses on developing students understanding of the world around them, how to learn and solve everyday problems. Students become familiar with simple strategies to structure and understand the world and thinking. Students are exposed to thinking processes.

  Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking

• Geography: Level B description

  The Level B curriculum focuses on places I live in and developing students’ awareness of the places they experience daily. They are supported to develop their curiosity of place by exploring some of the significant features of the place and what they do in each. They are developing an emerging...

  Level description | The Humanities | Geography

• VCELA063

  Connect sounds and words and match them to objects

  Elaborations

  • learning about the connection between everyday images and objects
  • learning about the connection between everyday objects and their name
  • exploring different sounds and words and their connection to objects and people
  • exploring sounds and words by imitating and making approximations of words

  VCELA063 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCHHK024

  Explore significant places and site, and events associated with them

  Elaborations

  • exploring different places and events by experiencing stories and exploring related objects and images
  • visiting and using the spaces of a significant place
  • investigating culture, spiritual importance and/or different events, by experiencing stories and exploring related objects and images

  VCHHK024 | The Humanities | History | Level B | Historical Knowledge | Community histories

• Digital Technologies: Level B description

  In Level B, students become less reliant on high levels of co-active support and become more reliant on verbal prompts and gestures to facilitate learning. Students will have opportunities to create a range of digital solutions through structured learning experience, guided play and integrated...

  Level description | Technologies | Digital Technologies

• VCHHK020

  The structure of their immediate family

  Elaborations

  • viewing images of their family both past and present
  • using images and stories to explore their family structure
  • learning the terms used for immediate family members such as mother, mum, father, sister
  • sharing and experiencing stories about their immediate family, its members and structure, and viewing stories about their peers’ families

  VCHHK020 | The Humanities | History | Level B | Historical Knowledge | Personal histories

• VCHPEP021

  Engage in structured play activities

  Elaborations

  • focusing attention to significant people and watching and responding to others during structured play
  • experiencing the interaction of others through playing and being able to react to classmates and significant adults
  • exploring basic play equipment and learning how to use play equipment
  • responding to and cooperating with the teacher to complete tasks and games

  VCHPEP021 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Personal, Social and Community Health | Contributing to healthy and active communities

• VCHPEM025

  Explore the space around them and learn to move in relation to effort, space and objects

  Elaborations

  • exploring movement over various surfaces and environments
  • moving in different ways and in different directions in a designated area
  • following directions to keep personal space during physical activities
  • exploring body positions and developing coordination and flexibility when performing a range of different movements

  VCHPEM025 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Movement and Physical Activity | Understanding movement

• VCGGK026

  The major features of a place

  Elaborations

  • using objects, images, photos or Augmentative Alternative Communication to identify a place or activity from a field of two
  • matching feathers to a place using images
  • exploring the features of a place
  • creating a class multimedia text which identifies a place and its key features

  VCGGK026 | The Humanities | Geography | Level B | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCHPEP015

  Identify what they like and dislike

  Elaborations

  • developing a sense of self, including recognising themselves in a mirror and photographs
  • developing personal preferences and attempting tasks related to their personal preferences
  • identifying from a small selection of foods things they like
  • identifying from images people that are significant to them

  VCHPEP015 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• VCELA036

  Recognise that texts can have many forms, can use images, objects and symbols

  Elaborations

  • beginning to understand that multimodal texts may include symbols, images and objects
  • recognising some photographs, images and objects in a text

  VCELA036 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing | Language