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• VCHHK148

  Effects of World War II, with a particular emphasis on the changes and continuities brought to the Australian home front and society

  Elaborations

  • categorising and organizes the effects of World War II, with a particular emphasis on the Australian home front, including the changing roles of women and use of wartime government controls such as conscription, manpower controls, rationing and censorship
  • investigating the effects of World War II at a local and national level, for example, significant events such as the bombing of Darwin, the Japanese submarine attack on Sydney, the sinking of ships off the Australian coast, the ‘Battle of Brisbane’, the Cowra breakout and the Brisbane Line

  VCHHK148 | The Humanities | History | Levels 9 and 10 | Historical Knowledge | The modern world and Australia | Australia at war (1914 – 1945): World War II

• VCSSU090

  Science and technology contribute to finding solutions to a range of contemporary issues; these solutions may impact on other areas of society and involve ethical considerations

  Elaborations

  • considering decisions made in relation to the recycling of greywater and blackwater
  • investigating strategies implemented to maintain part of the local environment, such as bushland, a beach, a lake, a desert or a shoreline
  • investigating the development of vehicles over time, including the application of science and technology to the designs of solar-powered or electric vehicles
  • relating regulations about wearing seatbelts or safety helmets to knowledge of forces and motion
  • discussing ethical issues that arise from organ transplantation

  VCSSU090 | Science | Levels 7 and 8 | Science Understanding | Science as a human endeavour

• VCGGK105

  Classification of environmental resources and the forms that water takes as a resource

  Elaborations

  • classifying resources into renewable/non-renewable and finite/infinite resources, and investigating examples of each type
  • 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

  VCGGK105 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Knowledge | Water in the world

• Civics and Citizenship: Levels 3 and 4 description

  The Level 3 and 4 curriculum introduces students to democracy in the context of the familiar and personal as well as the purpose of local government and the services it provides to the community. It explores an understanding of democracy as rule by the people through learning about decision making...

  Level description | The Humanities | Civics and Citizenship

• Personal and Social Capability: Levels 9 and 10 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 10, students reflect critically on their emotional responses to challenging situations in a wide range of contexts. They demonstrate persistence, motivation, initiative and decision-making through completion of challenging tasks. They evaluate personal characteristics, strategies...

  Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 9 and 10

• VCMNA284

  Solve linear equations using algebraic and graphical techniques. Verify solutions by substitution

  Elaborations

  • solving real life problems by using variables to represent unknowns

  VCMNA284 | Mathematics | Level 8 | Number and Algebra | Linear and non-linear relationships

• Languages | Korean: Learning in Korean

  Korean language learning

  Korean is spoken by around 80 million people in the Korean Peninsula and worldwide. With the rapidly growing popularity of and interest in Korean culture across the world, the number of people learning Korean is also growing fast in many countries in Asia, Oceania, the...

  Overview material | Korean

• Economics and Business: Levels 5 and 6 description

  In Levels 5 and 6, students explore the importance of economic and financial decision-making in everyday life. They consider the concept of opportunity cost and examine why decisions about the ways resources are allocated to meet needs and wants in their community involve trade-offs.

  Students examine...

  Level description | The Humanities | Economics and Business

• 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

• VCEBR011

  Examine the ways consumers and producers respond to and influence each other in the market, particularly through price mechanism

  Elaborations

  • investigating how consumers rely on businesses to meet their needs and wants
  • identifying and creating a list of who is involved in the market system in Australia
  • explaining the influence of buyers and sellers on prices and how markets enable the distribution and allocation of resources, including examining how businesses answer questions of what to produce, how to produce and for whom to produce
  • examining how businesses respond to the demands of consumers, such as preferences for healthy options, environmentally friendly packaging or organic food
  • considering how consumers might influence producers in other countries to provide goods and services, such as those in the Asia region
  • describing how goods and services are produced

  VCEBR011 | The Humanities | Economics and Business | Levels 7 and 8 | Resource Allocation and Making Choices

• VCSSU089

  Scientific knowledge and understanding of the world changes as new evidence becomes available; science knowledge can develop through collaboration and connecting ideas across the disciplines and practice of science

  Elaborations

  • investigating how advances in telescopes and space probes have provided new evidence about space
  • investigating how the development of microscopes has changed understanding of cell function and malfunction, and how this has led to improved medical treatments for disease
  • investigating how knowledge of the location and extraction of mineral resources relies on expertise from across the disciplines of science
  • considering how advances in technology, combined with scientific understanding of the functioning of body systems, has enabled organ repair and replacement
  • investigating how land management practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples can help inform sustainable management of the environment

  VCSSU089 | Science | Levels 7 and 8 | Science Understanding | Science as a human endeavour

• VC2M1M03

  describe the duration and sequence of events using years, months, weeks, days and hours

  Elaborations

  • naming, listing and using familiar units of time, such as hours, days, weeks and years
  • comparing the number of days in the months of the year and explaining how the months cycle from one year to the next
  • sequencing familiar events, including representing time, on pictorial timelines
  • discussing events and activities and deciding whether they would take closer to an hour, a day, a week, a month or a year; for example, it takes a day for the sun to rise and fall and rise again, but it takes less than an hour for me to walk to school
  • investigating durations of time represented in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander seasonal calendars

  VC2M1M03 | Mathematics | Mathematics Version 2.0 | Level 1 | Measurement

• VC2M2M04

  recognise and read the time represented on an analog clock to the hour, half-hour and quarter hour

  Elaborations

  • creating an analog clock from a paper plate, showing the placement of the numbers and the 2 hands, and explaining how long it takes for the 2 hands to move around the clock face and what time unit each is showing
  • recognising and describing the relationship between the movement of the hands on an analog clock and the duration of time it represents; for example, connecting the language of ‘half past’ to mean when the ‘big hand’ will be at half past the hour and recognising this position as being halfway around its full cycle
  • dividing a clock face into halves and quarters, and connecting the subdivisions with telling the time to the half-hour and quarter hour; and explaining the meaning of ‘quarter past’ and ‘quarter to’ referring to the hour

  VC2M2M04 | Mathematics | Mathematics Version 2.0 | Level 2 | Measurement

• VCITC065

  Create texts for particular audiences that depict experiences or topics of interest

  Elaborations

  • creating cartoons, picture stories, plays or big books for younger audiences
  • creating and performing own texts which reflect Italian cultural behaviours, attitudes and social conventions (for example, writing the script and creating a video recording to introduce aspects of family life, school life, local community life or virtual life), and comparing own texts to others’
  • creating a short film with subtitles depicting an aspect of contemporary teenage life from an Italian, Australian or diasporic perspective

  VCITC065 | Languages | Italian | F–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Communicating | Creating

• The Humanities | Civics and Citizenship: Rationale and Aims

  The VCAA has published the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0. To view the curriculum, familiarisation resources and support material, go to the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 website.
  
  Go to the VCAA website to explore the timeline for familiarisation and implementation of...

  Overview material | Civics and Citizenship

• The Humanities | Geography: Rationale and Aims

  The VCAA has published the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0. To view the curriculum, familiarisation resources and support material, go to the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 website.
  
  Go to the VCAA website to explore the timeline for familiarisation and implementation of...

  Overview material | Geography

• Geography: Levels 3 and 4 description

  In Levels 3 and 4, the curriculum continues to develop students’ mental map of the world and their understanding of place through examining the major characteristics of Australia, Australia's neighbouring countries and Africa and South America. The concept of place is developed by examining...

  Level description | The Humanities | Geography

• Health and Physical Education: Level C achievement standards

  By the end of Level C, students recognise key stages of life, how they have grown and changed. They identify some obvious emotions and their cause. They experience and become more independent with actions that help them be healthy, safe and physically active.

  They identify some different settings...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education | Level C

• Mathematics: Level 1 description

  In Level 1, students use mathematical symbols and language as well as materials and drawings in their mathematical explorations of daily life.

  Students recognise, represent and order numbers to at least 100 using materials, diagrams, words, numerals and a number line, and apply this with respect...

  Level description | Mathematics

• VCHHC005

  Experience narratives about a person or the past

  Elaborations

  • experiencing retellings of significant events within their community, family and school life through multisensory experiences and texts
  • experiencing the construction of a narrative about a recent significant event
  • viewing various text and representation of their family, life and significant events

  VCHHC005 | The Humanities | History | Level A | Historical Concepts and Skills | Historical significance