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• VCKOU129

  Notice and identify different types of simple spoken, written and digital texts used for different purposes in familiar contexts

  Elaborations

  • listening to and viewing different types of simple texts in Korean including digital or online texts and recognising that Korean is used for purposes such as songs, chants, dialogues and stories
  • identifying Korean words in spoken and written texts where Korean is used alongside words from other languages

  VCKOU129 | Languages | Korean | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VC2M10A04

  expand binomial products and factorise monic quadratic expressions using a variety of strategies

  Elaborations

  • exploring the method of completing the square to factorise quadratic expressions and solve quadratic equations
  • identifying and using common factors, including binomial expressions, to factorise algebraic expressions using the technique of grouping in pairs
  • using the identities for perfect squares and the difference of squares to factorise quadratic expressions

  VC2M10A04 | Mathematics | Mathematics Version 2.0 | Level 10 | Algebra

• VC2M10ASP01

  prove and apply relationships between angles and various lines associated with circles (radii, diameters, chords, tangents)

  Elaborations

  • identifying and proving relationships, for example, angles between tangents and chords, angles subtended by a chord with respect to the centre of a circle and angles subtended by a chord with respect to a point on the circumference of a circle, including using dynamic geometry software
  • exploring how deductive reasoning and diagrams are used in proving geometric theorems related to circles

  VC2M10ASP01 | Mathematics | Mathematics Version 2.0 | Level 10A | Space

• VC2M6M01

  convert between common metric units of length, mass and capacity; choose and use decimal representations of metric measurements relevant to the context of a problem

  Elaborations

  • recognising the significance of the prefixes in units of measurement
  • identifying and using the correct operations when converting between units including millimetres, centimetres, metres, kilometres, milligrams, grams, kilograms, tonnes, millilitres, litres, kilolitres and megalitres
  • recognising the equivalence of measurements, such as 1.25 metres is the same as 125 centimetres

  VC2M6M01 | Mathematics | Mathematics Version 2.0 | Level 6 | Measurement

• VCMNA332

  Expand binomial products and factorise monic quadratic expressions using a variety of strategies

  Elaborations

  • exploring the method of completing the square to factorise quadratic expressions and solve quadratic equations
  • identifying and using common factors, including binomial expressions, to factorise algebraic expressions using the technique of grouping in pairs
  • using the identities for perfect squares and the difference of squares to factorise quadratic expressions

  VCMNA332 | Mathematics | Level 10 | Number and Algebra | Patterns and algebra

• VCPSCSO011

  Identify how families can have a range of relationships

  Elaborations

  • exploring the features of their family including who lives at home and name their relationships to each of these people
  • brainstorming what is a family’s role, such as providing love, support and food, and identify the family members who undertake these tasks
  • graphing class results showing the number of students who have brothers, sisters and pets

  VCPSCSO011 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 1 and 2 | Social Awareness and Management | Relationships and diversity

• VCRAC052

  Engage with others to exchange ideas, experiences and interests

  Elaborations

  • exchanging opinions about family, friends, teachers, subjects, entertainment, sport and leisure
  • comparing aspects of their personal world such as school or home life
  • recounting significant events, special occasions and milestones
  • interacting in class activities and (electronic) games
  • socialising with friends and family at events, including chatting about school or holidays

  VCRAC052 | Languages | Roman Alphabet Languages | F–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Communicating | Socialising

• VCRAU016

  Develop awareness that languages borrow from each other

  Elaborations

  • knowing that both languages use the same alphabet
  • recognising that many languages borrow words from English and that English borrows many words from other languages
  • keeping a class record of words in the language that are borrowed from other languages, including loan words from Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages

  VCRAU016 | Languages | Roman Alphabet Languages | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Understanding | Language variation and change

• VCSIS070

  Compare results with predictions, suggesting possible reasons for findings

  Elaborations

  • identifying and discussing numerical and visual patterns in data collected from students’ investigations and from other sources
  • discussing how well predictions matched results from an investigation
  • comparing, in small groups, results of investigations and accounting for differences, including explanation of their reasoning

  VCSIS070 | Science | Levels 3 and 4 | Science Inquiry Skills | Analysing and evaluating

• VCSSU047

  Earth’s resources are used in a variety of ways

  Elaborations

  • identifying Earth’s resources, including water, soil and minerals, and describing how they are used at school and in the home
  • considering what might happen to humans if there were a change in a familiar available resource, for example, water
  • identifying actions at school that can conserve resources, for example, turning off dripping taps

  VCSSU047 | Science | Foundation to Level 2 | Science Understanding | Earth and space sciences

• VCVIU121

  Recognise that Australia is a multilingual society and that Vietnamese is one of the major community languages in Australia

  Elaborations

  • exploring and naming different languages that they have encountered in everyday life, for example, languages of their parents, grandparents, neighbours or classmates
  • exploring the range of languages spoken in Australia, including Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages, Asian languages and world languages

  VCVIU121 | Languages | Vietnamese | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Understanding | Language variation and change

• VCZHC115

  Locate information about people and objects from a range of sources, and sequence events

  Elaborations

  • sharing information with the class on topics of interest (for example, 我的宠物), providing information and answering peers’ questions, for example, 我的猫很小，有棕色和白色的毛
  • identifying details about people and events heard in media texts, including children’s educational TV programs

  VCZHC115 | Languages | Chinese | Background Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Communicating | Informing

• VCZHU061

  Analyse how authors adjust features of different text types for different purposes and audiences

  Elaborations

  • comparing diverse genres with similar topics (for example, 生日会的安排 and 我的生日日记), recognising the differences in purpose, focus of information and language choice
  • analysing and explaining the organisation and development of ideas or an argument in a range of genres, including textual features such as paragraphing

  VCZHU061 | Languages | Chinese | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VCZHU157

  Recognise and apply conventions of personal texts and compare textual features of different texts

  Elaborations

  • exploring metaphorical and literal meaning in texts, for example, 远远的街灯亮了，像是闪着无数的明星
  • analysing rhetorical devices in texts, including 比喻、夸张、排比; identifying culturally specific features such as 日月如梭，难于上青天; and experimenting with rhetorical devices in own speech and writing

  VCZHU157 | Languages | Chinese | Background Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VCELC145

  Create bilingual texts and learning resources, such as signs, notices, games, displays, websites or word banks, for the school community

  Elaborations

  • creating simple bilingual texts in print or digital form for specific audiences, such as school signs for Greek visitors, invitations to parents for class or school events, posters for the school community to advertise an upcoming event, online bilingual story books including text and images for a younger audience, or a bilingual game, such as Snap, using words only
  • creating and posting Greek versions of existing school signs, recognising difference in word order, for example, staffroom, canteen
  • constructing and maintaining a bilingual website for a sister-school or a contact group of young learners of English in a Greek-speaking community
  • creating a word bank which includes words, phrases and common expressions, as a classroom resource to reinforce learning

  VCELC145 | Languages | Modern Greek | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6 | Communicating | Translating

• VCESC119

  Recognise themselves as belonging to groups, for example, ‘my friends’, ‘my class’, ‘my school’, ‘my family’ and ‘my community’

  Elaborations

  • making simple statements about themselves, including where they come from and what language(s) they speak
  • identifying themselves as belonging to different groups, such as family, class or peer groups (Yo soy australiana y chilena, Soy un niño/una niña. Estoy en la clase B), and representing these relationships through drawing pictures, adding captions to photos, or digital text creation
  • comparing their own ways of communicating, including using any other languages with those of friends or family members who speak different languages
  • considering whether there are any aspects of their ways of communicating that might be unfamiliar to children from different cultural backgrounds

  VCESC119 | Languages | Spanish | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Communicating | Reflecting

• VCGGC075

  Represent data and the location of places and their characteristics by constructing tables and simple graphs and maps of appropriate scale that conform to cartographic conventions of border, scale, legend, title and north point

  Elaborations

  • creating tables or picture and column graphs to show patterns in data collected from observations or other sources about the similarities and differences between places
  • using maps of vegetation for Australia, Africa and South America to compare the most common types of vegetation in each continents
  • making a plan of the classroom or home, using pictorial symbols
  • annotating a map to show selected natural and human characteristics of Australia, Africa or South America using the appropriate cartographic conventions including map symbols and north point
  • constructing maps to show the features of places, using basic cartographic conventions including map symbols and north point

  VCGGC075 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 3 and 4 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Data and information

• VCGGK119

  Human causes of landscape degradation, the effects on landscape quality and the implications for places

  Elaborations

  • analysing the effects of erosion and sedimentation produced by human activities on landscape quality, including farming and recreation
  • examining the effects of mining and quarrying, and urban development, on landscape quality and how this affects places
  • describing the effects of river regulation, including dams, locks, channel straightening and drains, on riverine and wetland landscape quality
  • investigating the effects on coastal landscape quality of the built elements of places. For example, urban development, marinas and sea walls
  • investigating the ways introduced plants or animals or activities such as mining affect landscape quality and examining the effects on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

  VCGGK119 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Knowledge | Landforms and landscapes

• VCGGK140

  Ways in which transportation and information and communication technologies are used to connect people to services, information and people in other places

  Elaborations

  • describing the differences in people’s access to the internet between and within countries and exploring how information and communication technologies are being used to connect people to information, services and people in other places, for example, in rural and remote areas across Australia and the world, including selected countries of the Asia region
  • examining how information and communication technologies have made it possible for places in India and the Philippines, for example, to provide a range of global business services
  • exploring how transport networks operate to connect people to services, including how supply chain logistics influence these connections

  VCGGK140 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Knowledge | Geographies of interconnection

• VCHPEM155

  Design, implement and evaluate personalised plans for improving or maintaining their own and others’ physical activity and fitness levels

  Elaborations

  • using ICT to design, implement and monitor a personal fitness plan which includes a timeframe, goals and a variety of specific activities that meet the needs of different people
  • investigating target training heart-rate zones for a range of different people and how these zones relate to health, wellbeing and fitness
  • justifying the selection of physical activities included in a personalised plan linked to the components of health- and skill-related fitness they wish to improve or maintain
  • using non-specialised equipment to develop health- or skill-related fitness circuits that can be used by family or community members

  VCHPEM155 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 9 and 10 | Movement and Physical Activity | Understanding movement