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• VCHHK109

  How physical features influenced the development of the civilisation

  Elaborations

  • Egypt
    • describing the importance of the River Nile to Egyptian society, for example, inundation and farming, the worship of Hapi (god of the Nile), and the use of the Nile as a means of transportation
  • Greece
    • describing the impact of the sea and mountain ranges of Ancient Greece on the development of self-governing city-states
  • Rome
    • mapping the geography of Rome’s River Tiber and the seven hills of Rome to explain reasons for the development of the city
    • describing the methods used by the Romans to manage resources, for example the water supply through aqueducts and plumbing systems
  • India
    • describing how harmonious relationships with the natural world were reflected in Indian belief systems, for example, Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism
    • creating a graphic representation of the extent of India as a political unit at this time, including for example its diverse climatic and geographical features, types and location of food production, areas of high and low density population
  • China
    • describing the significance of the Yellow River to irrigation and the impact of features such as the Himalayas on contacts with other societies, including trade

  VCHHK109 | The Humanities | History | Levels 7 and 8 | Historical Knowledge | Ancient world and early civilisations – 60 000 BC (BCE) – c.650 AD (CE)

• VCHPEM068

  Cooperate with others when participating in physical activities

  Elaborations

  • working with a partner or small group to complete a movement task or challenge
  • mirroring a partner while moving to music
  • using words and body language to communicate intentions clearly when playing minor games

  VCHPEM068 | Health and Physical Education | Foundation Level | Movement and Physical Activity | Learning through movement

• VCHPEM070

  Follow rules when participating in physical activities

  Elaborations

  • following instructions for personal safety and fair play
  • responding to a whistle and commands when participating in physical activities
  • identifying boundaries such as personal space and playing area
  • demonstrating appropriate use of equipment

  VCHPEM070 | Health and Physical Education | Foundation Level | Movement and Physical Activity | Learning through movement

• VCHPEM102

  Adopt inclusive practices when participating in physical activities

  Elaborations

  • using cooperative skills to complete a movement task, such as a partner balance, partner passing strategy or team strategy
  • working cooperatively with team members to maintain possession in a game by passing to other players and listening to team-mates
  • modifying physical activities to ensure that everyone is included, such as changing equipment, rules or playing space

  VCHPEM102 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 3 and 4 | Movement and Physical Activity | Learning through movement

• VCHPEM026

  Cooperate with an adult to use equipment during physical activity

  Elaborations

  • demonstrating a readiness to explore and participate in new experiences
  • initiating a task when prompted by an adult
  • attempting to follow adult’s movements and use of equipment
  • working with an adult to complete a movement task or challenge

  VCHPEM026 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Movement and Physical Activity | Learning through movement

• VCHPEM012

  Cooperate when experiencing physical activities and movement

  Elaborations

  • demonstrate an awareness of the teacher when participating in physical activity
  • assisting with the movement of body parts during physical activities

  VCHPEM012 | Health and Physical Education | Level A | Movement and Physical Activity | Learning through movement

• VCHPEM009

  Experience a variety of physical and structured leisure activities

  Elaborations

  • developing their grasp and demonstrating a squeeze grasp
  • experiencing various games and reacting to sensory stimuli during a game

  VCHPEM009 | Health and Physical Education | Level A | Movement and Physical Activity | Moving the body

• VCHPEM024

  Engage in regular physical activities and explore the development of their ability

  Elaborations

  • developing gross motor skills including reaching with either hand and crossing the midline
  • demonstrating a range of purposeful movements in aquatic environments
  • preforming familiar tasks with support in a limited range of locations
  • learning about how their body moves during and develops during participation in different physical activities

  VCHPEM024 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Movement and Physical Activity | Understanding movement

• VCHPEM083

  Discuss the body’s reactions to participating in physical activities

  Elaborations

  • participating in activities of different intensity and comparing the body’s reactions
  • identifying positive feelings they experience when participating in physical activities
  • participating in new and unfamiliar activities and describing how they felt about the experience

  VCHPEM083 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 1 and 2 | Movement and Physical Activity | Understanding movement

• VCHPEP089

  Explore strategies to manage physical, social and emotional change

  Elaborations

  • discussing physical, social and emotional changes that occur as individuals get older, and exploring how these changes impact on how they think and feel about themselves and different situations
  • exploring how friendships change as they grow older and identifying strategies to manage change
  • identifying people or sources of information that they can access if they have questions about the changes that are occurring

  VCHPEP089 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 3 and 4 | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• 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

• VCELA236

  Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and things

  Elaborations

  • exploring how language is used to express feelings including learning vocabulary to express a gradation of feeling, for example ‘happy’, ‘joyful’, ‘pleased’, ‘contented’
  • exploring in stories, everyday and media texts moral and social dilemmas; such as right and wrong, fairness/unfairness, inclusion and exclusion; learning to use language to describe actions and consider consequences
  • exploring how language is used to construct characters and settings in narratives, including choice of nouns such as ‘girl’, ‘princess’ or ‘orphan’, and choice of adjectives such as ‘gentle’, ‘timid’ or ‘frightened’

  VCELA236 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCPSCSO012

  Listen to others’ ideas, and recognise that others may see things differently

  Elaborations

  • sharing with a partner things that they like to do and partner then retells the whole class comparing what is similar and what is different
  • providing students with a series of statements, such as cats are better than dogs or chocolate ice-cream is better than vanilla, ask students to share their opinion and provide a reason
  • discussing how opinions and thoughts may change after hearing others’ ideas, and that different views are not better or worse, just different

  VCPSCSO012 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 1 and 2 | Social Awareness and Management | Relationships and diversity

• VCHPEP016

  Identify some major body parts

  Elaborations

  • actively participate in songs, action games and games associated with the identification of major body parts
  • exploring topics related to their body parts relevant to their age and physical growth and development
  • identifying major body parts when communicated

  VCHPEP016 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• VCDSTC024

  Investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a designed solution

  Elaborations

  • examining models to identify how forces and materials are used in the design of a toy
  • exploring through play how movement can be initiated by combining materials and using forces, for example releasing a wound rubber band to propel a model boat
  • conducting investigations to understand the characteristics and properties of materials and forces that may affect the behaviour and performance of a product or system, for example woomera design
  • deconstructing a product or system to identify how motion and forces affect behaviour, for example in a puppet such as a Japanese bunraku puppet or a model windmill with moving sails
  • identifying and exploring properties and construction relationships of an engineered product or system, for example a structure that floats; a bridge to carry a load
  • experimenting with available local materials, tools and equipment to solve problems requiring forces including identifying inputs (what goes in to the system), processes (what happens within the system) and outputs (what comes out of the system), for example designing and testing a container or parachute that will keep an egg intact when dropped from a height

  VCDSTC024 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Levels 3 and 4 | Technologies Contexts | Engineering principles and systems

• VCKOC030

  Reflect on own identity and on how it is affected by the experience of Korean language learning

  Elaborations

  • gathering examples of language/s used by various people in different contexts, including the Korean language spoken by Koreans in different social/age groups and in different places, and discussing how the examples reveal aspects of identity
  • discussing challenges and rewards they feel during intercultural interactions and how the experience of learning and using Korean challenges preconceptions or stereotypes and helps them to revise own attitudes
  • recounting personal stories, in oral, written or digital forms, about significant encounters, explaining why they consider them significant
  • monitoring own language use and sense of identity across a range of intercultural interactions, such as by using a blog or journal, and considering personal experience, perspectives and values about being a learner and user of Korean
  • sharing with others the ongoing influence of Korean language learning on the shaping of their identity

  VCKOC030 | Languages | Korean | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10 | Communicating | Reflecting

• VCMSP177

  Identify events where the chance of one will not be affected by the occurrence of the other

  Elaborations

  • explaining that the probability of a new baby being either a boy or a girl does not depend on the sex of the previous baby

  VCMSP177 | Mathematics | Level 4 | Statistics and Probability | Chance

• 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

• VCSIS038

  Use pictures, words and provided simple graphic organisers to record observations and findings and sort objects into groups based on particular characteristics

  Elaborations

  • using photos , pictures and words to represent and record their observations, for example, the life cycle of living things, parts of different plants
  • sorting objects or living things based on set characteristics, for example, number of legs, type of body covering

  VCSIS038 | Science | Level D | Science Inquiry Skills | Recording and processing

• VC2M10P01

  use the language of ‘if … then …’, ‘given’, ‘of’ and ‘knowing that’ to investigate conditional statements and identify common mistakes in interpreting such language, and describe and interpret situations involving conditional probability; design and conduct simulations using digital tools to model...

  Elaborations

  • using two-way tables and Venn diagrams to understand conditional statements using the language of ‘if … then …’, ‘given’, ‘of’ and ‘knowing that’ and identifying common mistakes in interpreting such language
  • using arrays and tree diagrams to represent, interpret and compare probabilities of dependent and independent events 
  • using samples of different sizes with and without replacement from a population to identify when the difference in methods becomes negligible
  • using simulations to gather data on frequencies for situations involving chance that appear to be counterintuitive, such as the three-door problem or the birthday problem
  • identifying situations in real life where probability simulations are used for decision-making, such as supply and demand of product, insurance risk and queueing 
  • using simulation to predict the number of people likely to be infected with a strain of flu or virus

  VC2M10P01 | Mathematics | Mathematics Version 2.0 | Level 10 | Probability