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• VCEALL099

  Recognise questions or statements through word order and vocabulary, as well as through intonation

  Elaborations

  • distinguishing between questions and statements based on intonation
  • recognising common forms of statements, for example ‘I am …’, ‘This is …’
  • recognising ‘Who’, ‘When’, ‘Where’, ‘How’ and ‘Why’ question forms
  • recognising a range of different question openers, such as ‘Do you ...?’, ‘Can anybody …?’, ‘Is it …?’

  VCEALL099 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL125

  Understand and use a small range of metalanguage for elements of texts

  Elaborations

  • understanding terminology such as ‘author’, ‘title’, ‘letter’, ‘word’, ‘sentence’
  • locating and labelling features of a text, such as author, heading, diagram, blurb
  • identifying features of a text in answer to questions, for example ‘Who is the author of this book?’, ‘Where can we find the contents page?’

  VCEALL125 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL131

  Relate most letters of the alphabet to sounds

  Elaborations

  • using the common sound of each letter when reading a new word
  • understanding that a letter can represent more than one sound
  • pronouncing the sound of each letter when sounding out new words
  • recognising beginning, middle or final sounds in words

  VCEALL131 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCELA016

  React to different sounds, and words, and respond to visual text

  Elaborations

  • encountering various types of text, genre and modes and their structure and organisation
  • reacting to objects and events within the environment
  • exploring how sounds stop and start, and can be long or short
  • responding to familiar people and objects, for example acknowledgement by looking at, or reaching towards, a desired object

  VCELA016 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Writing | Language

• VCELA280

  Understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity

  Elaborations

  • investigating in texts how adverb group/phrases and prepositional phrases can provide details of the circumstances surrounding a happening or state (for example, ‘At midnight (time) he rose slowly (manner) from the chair (place) and went upstairs (place)’

  VCELA280 | Curriculum content | English | Level 4 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA003

  Experience sentences being used to express ideas and information and responds to different words, sounds and noise

  Elaborations

  • experiencing sentences being communicated in different modes to express ideas, e.g. words, keywords, visuals, or sign
  • turning attention towards the spoken word of a familiar other
  • exploring how noises stop and start and can be long or short
  • tracking images, actions and objects moving horizontally and vertically

  VCELA003 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCGGK149

  Application of environmental economic and social criteria in evaluating management responses to an environmental change, and the predicted outcomes and further consequences of management responses on the environment and places, comparing examples from Australia and at least one other country

  Elaborations

  • explaining how communities and governments attempt to balance environmental, economic and social criteria in decisions on environmental programs, and the extent to which there can be trade-offs between them
  • debating the practical and ethical dilemmas of national and international conservation programs aimed at the environmental change being investigated

  VCGGK149 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Knowledge | Environmental change and management

• VCGGK122

  The causes and consequences of urbanisation, drawing on a study from Indonesia

  Elaborations

  • discussing urbanisation as a shift in where, how and why people live where they do
  • exploring the connections between urbanisation and economic and social opportunities
  • examining how urbanisation can affect environmental quality. For example, carbon emissions and water consumption

  VCGGK122 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Knowledge | Changing nations

• VCGGK150

  Interconnecting causes of spatial variations between countries in selected indicators of human wellbeing

  Elaborations

  • investigating the locational, economic, social, technological, political and or environmental causes of inequalities in wellbeing between countries
  • examining and explaining differences in indicators by gender between countries
  • investigating the interrelationships between the rate of population growth and human wellbeing in countries
  • examining how the possession of natural resources, such as minerals can affect wellbeing in a country

  VCGGK150 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Knowledge | Geographies of human wellbeing

• VCHPEM140

  Evaluate and justify reasons for decisions and choices of action when solving movement challenges

  Elaborations

  • explaining and justifying the movement concepts and strategies selected in response to movement challenges
  • demonstrating to others the approach taken to solve movement challenges
  • identifying factors that enabled them to achieve success in movement activities and explaining how these factors can be transferred to other learning contexts

  VCHPEM140 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 7 and 8 | Movement and Physical Activity | Learning through movement

• VCHPEM066

  Explore how regular physical activity keeps individuals healthy and well

  Elaborations

  • describing their feelings after participating in different physical activities
  • describing how the body responds to participating in different physical activities
  • sharing the things they enjoy about being physically active
  • identifying how regular physical activity can help keep people healthy

  VCHPEM066 | Health and Physical Education | Foundation Level | Movement and Physical Activity | Understanding movement

• VCHPEM119

  Manipulate and modify the elements of effort, space, time, objects and people to perform movement sequences

  Elaborations

  • demonstrating an understanding of how to adjust the force and speed of an object to improve accuracy and control
  • creating a movement sequence that demonstrates variations in flow and levels and involves individuals moving together in time
  • working with a partner to explore pushing and pulling movements and how these can be manipulated to perform counter-balances

  VCHPEM119 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 5 and 6 | Movement and Physical Activity | Understanding movement

• VCHPEM156

  Analyse the impact of effort, space, time, objects and people when composing and performing movement sequences

  Elaborations

  • experimenting with the manipulation of force and speed applied to an object to examine the difference created in movement paths
  • demonstrating and describing how the body can absorb force
  • creating a group performance that demonstrates synchronous and individual movements
  • using ICT to analyse movements and enhance movement sequences and performances

  VCHPEM156 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 9 and 10 | Movement and Physical Activity | Understanding movement

• VCHPEM135

  Practise, apply and transfer movement concepts and strategies

  Elaborations

  • examining and demonstrating the similarities of strategies used in different physical activities and how they can be transferred to new movement situations
  • exploring similarities in the bases of support and flow of movements when performing movement sequences
  • selecting previously successful strategies and applying the most appropriate when solving new movement challenges

  VCHPEM135 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 7 and 8 | Movement and Physical Activity | Moving the body

• VCHPEM084

  Incorporate elements of effort, space, time, objects and people in performing simple movement sequences

  Elaborations

  • comparing different types of movements and identifying which ones are easier and harder and why this might be the case
  • performing movements under, over, through and between objects, people and equipment
  • demonstrating how they can balance on different parts of the body and make different shapes

  VCHPEM084 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 1 and 2 | Movement and Physical Activity | Understanding movement

• VCMNA208

  Identify and describe properties of prime, composite, square and triangular numbers

  Elaborations

  • understanding that some numbers have special properties and that these properties can be used to solve problems
  • representing composite numbers as a product of their prime factors and using this form to simplify calculations by cancelling common primes
  • understanding that if a number is divisible by a composite number then it is also divisible by the prime factors of that number.

  VCMNA208 | Mathematics | Level 6 | Number and Algebra | Number and place value

• VCMNA277

  Solve a range of problems involving rates and ratios, including distance-time problems for travel at a constant speed, with and without digital technologies

  Elaborations

  • understanding that rate and ratio problems can be solved using fractions or percentages and choosing the most efficient form to solve a particular problem
  • calculating population growth rates in Australia and Asia and explaining their difference
  • finding one of distance travelled, time taken or average speed given the other two quantities

  VCMNA277 | Mathematics | Level 8 | Number and Algebra | Real numbers

• VC2M10P02

  describe the results of two- and three-step chance experiments, both with and without replacements, assign probabilities to outcomes and determine probabilities of events; investigate the concept of independence

  Elaborations

  • recognising that a subsequent event can be dependent, and that this will affect the way its probability is calculated, for example, cards chosen from a standard deck without replacement, conditional selection problems from a fixed sample size, or the Bertrand’s box paradox

  VC2M10P02 | Mathematics | Mathematics Version 2.0 | Level 10 | Probability

• VCMSP235

  Construct, interpret and compare a range of data displays, including side-by-side column graphs for two categorical variables

  Elaborations

  • comparing different student-generated diagrams, tables and graphs, describing their similarities and differences and commenting on the usefulness of each representation for interpreting the data
  • understanding that data can be represented in different ways, sometimes with one symbol representing more than one piece of data, and that it is important to read all information about a representation before making judgments

  VCMSP235 | Mathematics | Level 6 | Statistics and Probability | Data representation and interpretation

• VCMSP350

  Construct and interpret box plots and use them to compare data sets

  Elaborations

  • understanding that box plots are an efficient and common way of representing and summarising data and can facilitate comparisons between data sets
  • using parallel box plots to compare data about the age distribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with that of the Australian population as a whole

  VCMSP350 | Mathematics | Level 10 | Statistics and Probability | Data representation and interpretation