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• History: Levels 5 and 6 description

  From Colony to Nation

  In Levels 5 and 6, students study colonial Australia in the 1800s and the development of Australia as a nation, particularly after 1900. Students look at the founding of British colonies and the development of a colony. They learn about what life was like for different groups...

  Level description | The Humanities | History

• VCGGC099

  Explain processes that influence the characteristics of places

  Elaborations

  • explaining the physical causes and the temporal and spatial patterns of an atmospheric or hydrological hazard through a study of either droughts, storms, tropical cyclones or floods
  • exploring the geomorphology of the land and how this affects the liveability of a place
  • contrasting the effects of geomorphic processes that lower the land surface (weathering and erosion) and those that raise the land surface (transportation and deposition)
  • discussing urbanisation as a shift in where, how and why people live where they do

  VCGGC099 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• Chinese - Second Language Learner - F–10 Sequence: Levels 7 and 8 description

  Students extend their knowledge of the grammatical system and its use through spoken and written communication. Students experiment with language, exploring how cultural meanings are expressed. They analyse how messages are conveyed across languages, and apply their skills in moving between Chinese...

  Level description | Languages | Chinese | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence

• Critical and Creative Thinking: Levels 5 and 6 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 6, students apply questioning as a tool to focus or expand thinking. They use appropriate techniques to copy, borrow and compare aspects of existing solutions in order to identify relationships and apply these to new situations.

  Students distinguish between valid and sound...

  Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 5 and 6

• Drama: Level A description

  In Level A students are exposed to drama to assist them to attend to and explore the world around them with as much independence as possible. They experience how drama can represent the world and represent ideas about the world. They experience dance and are encouraged to use gestures and body...

  Level description | The Arts | Drama

• History: Level B description

  Personal and Present Family History

  The curriculum at Levels A to D provides a study of personal and family histories. Students learn about their own history and that of their family; this may include stories from different cultures and other parts of the world. As participants in their own history...

  Level description | The Humanities | History

• History: Level C description

  Personal and Recent Celebrations and History

  The curriculum at Levels A to D provides a study of personal and family histories. Students learn about their own history and that of their family; this may include stories from different cultures and other parts of the world. As participants in their...

  Level description | The Humanities | History

• History: Level D description

  Personal Past History

  The curriculum at Levels A to D provides a study of personal and family histories. Students learn about their own history and that of their family; this may include stories from different cultures and other parts of the world. As participants in their own history, students...

  Level description | The Humanities | History

• Music: Level A description

  In Level A, students are exposed to music to assist them to listen to and explore sound and attend to and explore the world around them with as much independence as possible. They listen to and explore sound and experience how they can make music. They experience music as part of an audience.

  Student...

  Level description | The Arts | Music

• VCELA038

  Know that an object has a name

  Elaborations

  • pointing towards or naming an object to communicate a choice
  • recognising that single words, signs or switches can communicate a need

  VCELA038 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCEALA382

  Draft a piece of writing focusing on meaning, and revise after rereading or discussion

  Elaborations

  • drafting based on a plan showing text organisation and sequence of ideas
  • reading aloud to self or partner to check meaning and comprehensibility
  • adding or deleting ideas, and correcting simple errors in spelling and punctuation after rereading or discussion with peers or teacher

  VCEALA382 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALL126

  Focus on both content and functional words to understand the main idea in a text

  Elaborations

  • identifying the main idea in a text based on recognising repeated content words
  • using function words (such as ‘the’, ‘and’, ‘as’, ‘in’, ‘of’) to understand the relationship between ideas in a text

  VCEALL126 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL423

  Self-correct and improve aspects of pronunciation that impede communication, and focus on correction

  Elaborations

  • identifying patterns of pronunciation that pose difficulty in own speech, such as the articulation of final consonants or a specific vowel sound, or inappropriate word stress
  • rehearsing pronunciation with a partner or recording pronunciation using a digital device to self-assess, in order to make improvements

  VCEALL423 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• Mathematics Version 2.0: Level 9 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 9, students recognise and use rational and irrational numbers to solve problems.

  Students extend and apply the exponent laws with positive integers and the zero exponent to variables. They expand binomial products and factorise monic quadratic expressions. They...

  Level description | Mathematics | Mathematics Version 2.0 | Level 9

• Digital Technologies: Levels 7 and 8 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 8, students distinguish between different types of networks and their suitability in meeting defined purposes.

  Students explain how text, image and sound data can be represented and secured in digital systems and presented using digital systems. They analyse and evaluate data...

  Level description | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Levels 7 and 8

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway A: Early immersion - EAL: Level B3 achievement standards - Writing

  At Level B3 students communicate for a range of purposes on a variety of familiar topics, using a basic repertoire of text types. They write sequenced and ordered factual texts, and narrative texts that maintain a cohesive storyline and characterisation. They demonstrate an awareness of how effective...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B3 | Writing

• 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

• Design and Technologies: Levels 7 and 8 description

  In Levels 7 and 8, students investigate and select from a range of technologies. They consider the ways characteristics and properties of technologies can be combined to create designed solutions to problems for individuals and the community, considering society and ethics, and economic, environmental...

  Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies

• VCCCTM069

  Use thinking to identify and express basic needs and linking objects to a label and purpose

  Elaborations

  • clarifying and simplifying communication of basic needs and wants, for example consistent yes/ no response, ways of gaining attention
  • beginning to use some objects purposefully and identify significant objects when named
  • exploring and modifying use of objects based on past experience and investigation in structured situations

  VCCCTM069 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Meta-Cognition

• VCDSCD003

  React to a designed solution that has been created and produced safely to meet their needs

  Elaborations

  • communicating simple choices through accept or reject actions as they experience making, doing and drawing
  • learning to indicate what they like when prompted
  • experiencing the production of a designed solution, for example, tasting fruit salad
  • experiencing being part of a group design process

  VCDSCD003 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level A | Creating Designed Solutions