Music is uniquely an aural art form. The essential nature of music is abstract. Music encompasses existing sounds that are selected and shaped; new sounds created by composers and performers, and the placement of sounds in time and space. Composers, performers and listeners perceive and...
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The Music curriculum is structured around four interdependent strands, each of which involves making and responding.
Strand | Explore and Express Ideas | Music Practices | Present and Perform | Respond and Interpret |
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Focuses on exploring sound and silence and ways of using voice, body percussion... |
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Learning in Visual Arts involves students making and responding to artworks, drawing on the world as a source of ideas. Students engage with and develop knowledge of visual arts, skills, techniques and processes, and use materials as they explore a range of forms, styles and contexts.
Through...
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Visual Arts includes the fields of art, craft and design. Students create visual art works that communicate, challenge and express their own and others’ ideas. They develop perceptual and conceptual understanding, critical reasoning and practical skills through exploring and expanding...
Overview material | Visual Arts
The curriculum is structured around four strands, each of which involves making and responding.
Strand | Explore and Express Ideas | Visual Arts Practices | Present and Perform | Respond and Interpret |
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Exploring, imagining, experimenting and expressing ideas, concepts, themes, values, beliefs, observations... |
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In Visual Communication Design, students develop the skills and practice to communicate ideas and messages in visual communications. Visual communication design practice includes the use of design thinking skills and design as a process. Drawing conventions and the use of design elements and principles...
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Visual Communication Design conveys ideas and information to an audience through visual language. In Visual Communication Design students develop conceptual and aesthetic understandings about design solutions in the world around them. The ideation and visualisation of ideas and observational...
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The curriculum is structured around four strands each of which involves making and responding.
Strand | Explore and Represent Ideas | Visual Communication Design Practices | Present and Perform | Respond and Interpret |
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Exploring and experimenting with ideas and representations in Visual... |
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In the Victorian Curriculum F–10, the Humanities includes Civics and Citizenship, Economics and Business, Geography and History.
The Humanities provide a framework for students to examine the complex processes that have shaped the modern world and to investigate responses to different challenges...
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Civics and Citizenship is essential in enabling students to become active and informed citizens who participate in and sustain Australia’s democracy. Through the study of Civics and Citizenship, students investigate political and legal systems, and explore the nature of citizenship...
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While there is no formal economics and business curriculum prior to Level 5, students may have developed relevant knowledge and capabilities through other curriculum areas and interactions in everyday life.
Students may develop a basic understanding...
Overview material | Economics and Business
The Economics and Business curriculum explores the ways in which individuals, families, the community, workers, businesses and governments make decisions in relation to the allocation of resources. It enables students to understand the process of economic and business decision-making...
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Economics and Business is organised by six strands. Throughout these strands the study of economics and business issues, events and business case studies form an integral component of the curriculum. The content is intended to be taught through relevant contexts, which will help students make...
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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...
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The Geography curriculum presents a structured way of exploring, analysing and understanding the characteristics of the places that make up our world, using the concepts of place, space, environment, interconnection, sustainability, scale and change. It addresses scales from the personal...
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Geography is organised by two strands: Geographical Concepts and Skills and Geographical Knowledge.
Strand: Geographical Concepts and Skills
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Place, space and interconnection |
Data and information |
Strand: Geographical Knowledge
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Levels A – D Foundation – Level 2 | Places a... |
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In the History curriculum, students have the opportunity to develop historical understanding through the application of the following historical concepts and skills:
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History is a disciplined process of investigation into the past that develops students' curiosity and imagination. Awareness of history is an essential characteristic of any society, and historical knowledge is fundamental to understanding ourselves and others. It promotes the understanding...
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History is organised by two strands: Historical Concepts and Skills and Historical Knowledge.
Historical Concepts and Skills are fundamental to the discipline of history and provide a structure for the development of historical understanding.
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Chronology |
Historical... |
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