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• VCSSU024

  Weather involves sun, rain, wind and clouds and can be hot, cold and warm

  Elaborations

  • responding to questions related to the weather, for example, ‘Do you think it will rain?’, ‘Do you feel hot?, ‘Is it snowing?’
  • identifying and sorting pictures and objects into 'hot' and 'cold' weather activities

  VCSSU024 | Science | Level C | Science Understanding | Earth and space sciences

• VCSSU100

  Some of Earth’s resources are renewable, but others are non-renewable

  Elaborations

  • considering what is meant by the term ‘renewable’ in relation to the Earth’s resources
  • considering timescales for regeneration of resources

  VCSSU100 | Science | Levels 7 and 8 | Science Understanding | Earth and space sciences

• Science: Levels 9 and 10 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 10, students analyse how models and theories have developed over time and discuss the factors that prompted their review. They predict how future applications of science and technology may affect people’s lives. They explain the concept of energy conservation and model...

  Level description | Science | Levels 9 and 10

• The Humanities | Geography: Learning in Geography

  Concepts

  The Geography curriculum identifies the concepts of place, space, environment, interconnection, sustainability, scale and change, as integral to the development of geographical understanding. These are high-level ideas or ways of thinking that can be applied across the subject to identify...

  Overview material | Geography

• VCFRU124

  Examine the nature of language change in response to changing cultural conditions

  Elaborations

  • identifying factors involved in language change and adaptation, for example by creating flowcharts or diagrams using captions such as la mondialisation, l’immigration, le multiculturalisme, les médias, les informations
  • finding examples of cross-cultural influences between French, English and Australian-English cultural expressions, art forms and vocabulary, for example, young musicians in France studying le didgeridoo
  • considering the concept of ‘ecology’ in relation to French and other languages; that is, the interaction of the language with constantly changing environments due to globalisation, technology, language shifts and exchange
  • understanding that languages increasingly blend to create new forms and functions, for example by comparing traditional creole languages in English-speaking and francophone communities

  VCFRU124 | Languages | French | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10 | Understanding | Language variation and change

• VCKOU036

  Explore and reflect on the nature of language change in response to changing cultural and social conditions

  Elaborations

  • understanding how Hangeul was created in response to the need for a writing system that would reflect the sound system of spoken Korean in 15th-century Korea; reflecting on how its creation has impacted on the Korean language and culture and people’s lives up until now, discussing the role of script in aspects of culture in everyday life
  • discussing possible reasons for changes in Korean language use, such as exposure to other languages, changing contexts of use and the development of digital technology
  • exploring how globalisation has accelerated the use of English words and expressions in Korean language use, discussing advantages and disadvantages in the blending of languages
  • examining how acronyms or short forms of words are used in Korean and in English, discussing how these forms reflect people’s changing lifestyles

  VCKOU036 | Languages | Korean | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10 | Understanding | Language variation and change

• 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

• Science: Level C description

  In Level C, students intentionally participate in investigations that require them to explore, observe and identify 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 weather, and changes...

  Level description | Science

• Science: Level D description

  In Level D, students are building their independence to observe and share what they discover about the characteristics 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 weather,...

  Level description | Science

• 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

• Science: Levels 5 and 6 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 6, students explain how scientific knowledge is used in decision making and develops from many people’s contributions. They discuss how scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions affect peoples’ lives. They compare the properties and behaviours of solids...

  Level description | Science | Levels 5 and 6

• VCASFU248

  Understand and control additional elements of Auslan grammar, such as the use of non-manual features for topicalisation, negation or conditional forms, and develop awareness of how signers use constructed action and depicting signs in composite utterances

  Elaborations

  • observing that some noun groups are not signed overtly, particularly if maintaining the same referent rather than introducing a new one
  • distinguishing between the citation form of a sign and the adverbial NMF overlaid and what meaning each part carries, for example: MAN SPRINT (base form), MAN SPRINT-_fast (manner added)
  • recognising that signers can give information about how a verb happens over time by changing the movement, for example, signing WATCH versus WATCH-_{for-a-long-time}, or with lexical signs such as WATCH AGAIN++
  • recognising that some adverbs modify adjectives, not verbs, for example VERY, and that these modifications to adjectives can also be expressed with NMFs, for example changes in mouth patterns and movement of signs can intensify adjectives, for example, RED-_really, PLEASED-_really, TALL-_really
  • recognising that typically signers use DSs to show spatial relationships, not separate signs such as ON or UNDER
  • recognising how conjunctions such as PLUS, IF or BUT are used to join clauses and create cohesion
  • recognising that clauses can also be joined through particular NMFs
  • noticing that clauses can be linked equally or unequally, where one clause depends on another
  • recognising that the element of a clause that a signer wants to focus on most in Auslan is sometimes moved to be signed first and that this process of topicalisation involves particular NMFs
  • noticing that clauses are elaborated and made more vivid by adding adjectives and adverbs and by enacting or using DSs
  • realising that in many clauses signers ‘tell’ with fully-lexical signs at the same time as ‘show’ with DS, periods of CA and other gestural elements
  • noticing when signers are using composite utterances, for example those that include elements of CA, DSs, points and lexical signs, and how that affects the structure of a clause

  VCASFU248 | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VCSSU073

  Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to inform personal and community decisions and to solve problems that directly affect people’s lives

  Elaborations

  • exploring objects and devices that include parts that involve the reflection, absorption or refraction of light, for example, mirrors, sunglasses and prisms
  • considering how electricity and electrical appliances have changed the way some people live
  • considering how decisions are made to grow particular plants and crops depending on environmental conditions
  • considering how guidelines help to ensure the safe use of electrical devices
  • comparing the benefits of using solid, liquid or gaseous fuels to heat a home
  • designing shelters for living things that are exposed to changed or harsh environments, for example, as a result of bushfire or displacement

  VCSSU073 | Science | Levels 5 and 6 | Science Understanding | Science as a human endeavour

• VCSSU035

  The shape of objects will affect how they move

  Elaborations

  • investigating how the shape of an object affects how well it can roll or slide
  • investigating how the shape of a helicopter blade affects how long a model paper helicopter can stay in the air

  VCSSU035 | Science | Level D | Science Understanding | Physical sciences

• VCSSU015

  Objects can be changed and manipulated

  Elaborations

  • exploring the effects that simple physical actions have on everyday objects, for example, pushing a toy car to make it move, letting go of an inflated balloon, dropping a ball
  • investigating how objects can change shape, for example, by squeezing, tearing, twisting, pulling, dropping

  VCSSU015 | Science | Level B | Science Understanding | Physical sciences

• VCGGC101

  Identify, analyse and explain interconnections within places and between places and identify and explain changes resulting from these interconnections

  Elaborations

  • describing how water is an available resource when it is groundwater, soil moisture (green water), and surface water in dams, rivers and lakes (blue water), and a potential resource when it exists as salt water, ice, water vapour or waste water, and using the concept of the water cycle to show the connections between the different forms
  • explaining how the movement of water through the environment connects places. For example, the melting of snow in spring feeding rivers and dams downstream
  • comparing student access to and use of places and spaces in their local area and evaluating how this affects perceptions of liveability
  • analysing the role of landforms and landscapes in tourism. For example, Uluru in Australia or the Grand Canyon in the USA
  • examining how urbanisation can affect environmental quality and analysing the effects of erosion and sedimentation produced by human activities on landscape quality

  VCGGC101 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCPSCSO021

  Describe the ways in which similarities and differences can affect relationships

  Elaborations

  • thinking about someone you admire and explore whether there are similarities or differences between yourself and that person
  • reading a story to enable students to discuss similarities and differences and the affect on relationships
  • discussing the statement ‘Differences can contribute to good relationships’

  VCPSCSO021 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Social Awareness and Management | Relationships and diversity

• Mathematics Version 2.0: Level 10A description

  Level 10A provides optional, additional content to extend students in their mathematical studies in number, algebra, function, geometry, probability and statistics.

  Level 10A does not include an achievement standard and does not require reporting.

  Students may extend...

  Level description | Mathematics | Mathematics Version 2.0

• Mathematics Version 2.0: Level 10 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 10, students recognise the effect of approximations of real numbers in repeated calculations.

  Students use mathematical modelling to solve problems involving growth and decay in financial and other applied situations, applying linear, quadratic and exponential...

  Level description | Mathematics | Mathematics Version 2.0 | Level 10

• VCHHK110

  Changes in society and the perspectives of key groups affected by change including the influence of law and religion

  Elaborations

  • Egypt
    • distinguishing between groups using historical sources such as the nobility, bureaucracy, women, and slaves in hieroglyphics
    • creating a graphic representation of the social structure of Egyptian society
    • outlining the rights of women, for example, in the areas of marriage, family life, work and education, and their responsibilities, that is, generally limited to the home and family
  • Greece
    • examining evidence of the social structure of Athenian or Spartan society, for example, the roles of citizens, women, slaves in Athenian society and the roles of Spartiates, Perioikoi and Helots in Spartan society
    • outlining the rights of citizens in ancient Athens, for example, the right to vote, their responsibilities, for example, military service, attending assembly meetings, and the invention of freedom
  • Rome
    • examining the evidence of the social structure of Roman society, for example, the roles of patricians, plebeians, women and slaves in the city of Rome, and the idea of Republican virtue and its historical resonance
    • describing the significance of slavery in the period of the Roman Empire, for example, the acquisition of slaves through warfare, the use of slaves as gladiators and agricultural labourers, and the rise of freedmen
  • India
    • creating a graphic representation of the social structure of Indian society
    • explaining the social structure of India, including the role of Brahmins – priests, teachers, Kshatriyas – kings, warriors, Vaishyas – merchants, artisans, Shudras – labourers, peasants
  • China
    • creating a graphic representation of the social structure of Chinese society such as kings, emperors, scholars, farmers, craftsmen, women
    • outlining the rights and responsibilities of women, for example, in the areas of marriage, family life, work and education

  VCHHK110 | The Humanities | History | Levels 7 and 8 | Historical Knowledge | Ancient world and early civilisations – 60 000 BC (BCE) – c.650 AD (CE)