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• VCHPEM098

  Perform movement sequences which link fundamental movement skills

  Elaborations

  • performing routines incorporating different jumping techniques and connecting movements
  • demonstrating fundamental movement skills in correct sequence to complete a movement task or challenge
  • performing tumbling routines using rolling actions, incline, weight transfer, flight and balances
  • participating in dance routines from different cultures, such as Tinikling from The Phillipines, Polynesian dance, Japanese parasol dance, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance
  • using a surface dive and propelling the body underwater to recover an object

  VCHPEM098 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 3 and 4 | Movement and Physical Activity | Moving the body

• VCHPEP044

  Identify the major parts of the body by their names and sequence images of major stages of life

  Elaborations

  • identifying the major parts of the body by their proper names and beginning to describe their function
  • identifying those parts of the body that are ‘private’ and identify the contexts in which body parts should be kept private
  • learning how bodies grow and change over time through major stages of life, baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult, older person

  VCHPEP044 | Health and Physical Education | Level D | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• 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

• VCMNA018

  Use number names ‘one’, ‘two’ and ‘three’ in sequence to count in everyday situations

  Elaborations

  • assisting to count objects initially to three, by participating in activities, stories, songs and rhymes that involve number. This could include nodding as objects are counted, tapping an object as it is counted, tracking objects being counted, repeating some number names as objects are being counted
  • responding to number of names in everyday situations, for example waiting for counting down or up before starting an action, sound, activity; stepping, clapping, making a sound, tapping a switch for each number
  • exploring and using some number names by ‘repeating’ number name either verbally or through a communication system or augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)

  VCMNA018 | Mathematics | Level B | Number and Algebra | Number and place value

• VCZHC115

  Locate information about people and objects from a range of sources, and sequence events

  Elaborations

  • sharing information with the class on topics of interest (for example, 我的宠物), providing information and answering peers’ questions, for example, 我的猫很小，有棕色和白色的毛
  • identifying details about people and events heard in media texts, including children’s educational TV programs

  VCZHC115 | Languages | Chinese | Background Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Communicating | Informing

• VCZHU044

  Form sentences to express details such as the time, place and manner of an action and to sequence ideas

  Elaborations

  • developing knowledge of metalinguistic terminology, discussing, for example: What is the plural form? How do we know it’s plural when reading in English? Can we tell when we read a Chinese word?
  • recognising that in Chinese, verbs convey tense without verb conjugation, for example, explaining why 有 can mean ‘have’, ‘had’ and ‘will have’
  • comparing the use of tenses in English and Chinese, for example, how future tense is often expressed through time phrases in Chinese (我明天去北京，下个星期去上海)
  • identifying the use of adverbial phrases, and extending understanding of sentence structure using subject–time–place–manner–verb–object, for example, 我星期一上学。我在墨尔本上学。我走路上学
  • examining the clauses of a sentence in Chinese and noticing how they are linked coherently, for example, 他叫王晓明，(他) 是我的朋友 (i.e. no subject/pronoun)
  • applying processes of discourse development, including joining (也、 和), contrasting (但是) and sequencing (就) information
  • using alternative language to clarify intended meaning, for example, saying 我不胖不瘦 when they don’t know the phrase 中等身材

  VCZHU044 | Languages | Chinese | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VCMNA103

  Investigate number sequences, initially those increasing and decreasing by twos, threes, fives and ten from any starting point, then moving to other sequences

  Elaborations

  • developing fluency and confidence with numbers and calculations by saying number sequences
  • recognising that the natural numbers with zero form an ordered infinite set {0, 1, 2, 3 … } with a first element but no last element
  • recognising patterns in number sequences, such as adding 10 always results in the same final digit

  VCMNA103 | Mathematics | Level 2 | Number and Algebra | Number and place value

• Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking: Structure

  Critical and Creative Thinking is organised into three interrelated strands: Questions and Possibilities, Reasoning and Meta-Cognition.

  Strands	Questions and Possibilities	Reasoning	Meta-Cognition
  	Explore the nature of questioning and a range of processes and techniques to develop ideas	Explore...

  Overview material | Critical and Creative Thinking

• The Humanities | Civics and Citizenship: Structure

  Civics and Citizenship is organised by three strands: Government and Democracy, Laws and Citizens, and Citizenship, Diversity and Identity. 

  Strands	Government and Democracy	Laws and Citizens	Citizenship, Diversity and Identity
  	Involves a study of Australian democracy and the key institutions...

  Overview material | Civics and Citizenship

• VCSIS134

  Formulate questions or hypotheses that can be investigated scientifically, including identification of independent, dependent and controlled variables

  Elaborations

  • formulating questions that can be investigated within the scope of the classroom or field with available resources
  • developing ideas from students' own or others' investigations and experiences to investigate further
  • revising and refining research questions to target specific information and data collection or finding a solution to the specific problem identified

  VCSIS134 | Science | Levels 9 and 10 | Science Inquiry Skills | Questioning and predicting

• The Humanities | History: Structure

  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. 

  Sub-strands
  Chronology
  Historical...

  Overview material | History

• VCADAD030

  Develop technical and expressive skills in fundamental movements and body actions and use choreographic devices to create dance sequences

  Elaborations

  • participating in structured improvisations designed to build technical skill in body control, accuracy, alignment, strength, balance and coordination
  • making and recording decisions about selected movement such as what to keep, what to discard or how to extend an idea
  • rehearsing a combination of fundamental movements using different dynamics and levels, for example, faster and slower
  • preparing and presenting a work in progress, developing and asking questions to check whether intended ideas have been perceived by the audience and make refinements to the dance in response to feedback
  • using questions to develop understanding of forms and elements, for example, the clues in a dance re where it was made, by whom and why, or dances they are familiar with, or the styles of dance found in their community, or how they would represent their neighbourhood in a dance

  VCADAD030 | The Arts | Dance | Levels 5 and 6 | Dance Practices

• VCADAD022

  Use choreographic devices to select and organise movement ideas and create and practise dance sequences

  Elaborations

  • practising fundamental movements such as walking, running, marching, galloping, skipping, crawling, bending, stretching, twisting and turning, focusing on technical skills of body control, posture, strength, balance and coordination
  • devising a range of body shapes and travelling movements suggested by action words focusing on the dynamic qualities, for example, rising, jumping, stopping, falling, opening, closing and then use the devices of repetition and contrast to form dance sequences
  • using questions as part of the dance-making process, for example, asking how ideas are communicated in this dance, how they are varying speeds, levels, directions?
  • exploring movement possibilities and making choices about ways of communicating emotions or observations about the texture of an object, for example, eating something sticky
  • making decisions about how a short dance will begin and end, refining and evaluating options through feedback, practice and repetition

  VCADAD022 | The Arts | Dance | Levels 1 and 2 | Dance Practices

• VCADAD002

  Show general awareness of body position and own body when being moved by others during fundamental movement and dance sequences

  Elaborations

  • reacting to movements or actions during dance experiences
  • responding to a range of fundamental movements to music, for example, bending, stretching, twisting, turning (non-locomotor), crawling, moving up and down (locomotor)
  • practising fundamental movements with support to begin to develop technical skills of body control, posture, strength, balance and coordination

  VCADAD002 | The Arts | Dance | Level A | Dance Practices

• VCADAD026

  Use choreographic devices to organise dance sequences, and practise body actions and technical skills

  Elaborations

  • creating short dances that communicate ideas and feelings based on response to stimuli such as found objects
  • practising combinations of fundamental locomotor and non-locomotor movements, for example, running and sliding, bending and stretching, walking and stretching
  • developing safe dance practices, for example warming up their bodies before executing more complex movement patterns
  • developing body awareness and technical skills of body control, accuracy, alignment, strength, balance and coordination, refining movement in response to teacher feedback and observation of other dancer’s skills

  VCADAD026 | The Arts | Dance | Levels 3 and 4 | Dance Practices

• VCADAE029

  Explore movement possibilities and choreographic devices using safe dance practice and the elements of dance to create movement ideas, sequences, and phrases

  Elaborations

  • improvising new movement to communicate ideas in response to stimulus, for example, dancers grouped in close proximity to represent overcrowded cities
  • exploring stimulus or analysing other dances to devise a variety of movement possibilities, for example, using safe dance practice to explore different ways to jump and land, roll and stand or spiral down to the ground
  • using questions to interpret dance, for example, the movement of the body to communicate ideas about a story, character or idea, or how space is used in the dance
  • using dance-making processes such as abstraction and improvisation to create movements and patterns that can be developed to become a sequence

  VCADAE029 | The Arts | Dance | Levels 5 and 6 | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCADAE025

  Improvise and structure movement ideas for dance sequences using safe dance practice, the elements of dance and choreographic devices

  Elaborations

  • using the devices of contrast and repetition to explore and generate new movement ideas in response to stimuli, for example, using repetition to show emphasis
  • using questions to explore forms and elements of dances they view and make, for example, how shapes are combined and varied in the dance
  • exploring known movements to find alternative ways of performing them, for example, same action/different level, same action/different body part
  • completing structured improvisations using choreographic devices of unison, canon, contrast and repetition
  • working with symmetrical and asymmetrical group formations

  VCADAE025 | The Arts | Dance | Levels 3 and 4 | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCDTCD009

  Follow, and with assistance, represent a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve simple problems

  Elaborations

  • re-sequencing a known everyday activity using visual images or verbal cues
  • experimenting with very simple, visual step-by-step procedures to explore using a device or completing a task, for example printing a picture or starting a game
  • identifying sequences of instructions or events that are commonly experienced such as the sequence of traffic lights or instructions for making a sandwich
  • following two to three-step series of instructions to use a piece of hardware or software, for example locating a website by keying in its URL or inserting an image in a file

  VCDTCD009 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level C | Creating Digital Solutions

• VCDTCD017

  Follow, describe and represent a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve simple problems

  Elaborations

  • experimenting with very simple, step-by-step procedures to explore programmable devices, for example providing instructions to physical or virtual objects or robotic devices to move in an intended manner
  • jointly writing and entering a simple set of instructions to sequence events and actions, for example scanning personal photographs and collating and ordering significant personal events or milestones and describing the steps involved in the process
  • presenting a sequence of instructions or events in a series of slides or screens with text and pictures
  • recognising sequences of instructions or events that are commonly experienced such as the sequence of traffic lights, or how their lunch order is taken and delivered
  • following a series of instructions to use a piece of hardware or software, for example taking a photograph, editing and storing it to include in a slow motion

  VCDTCD017 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Foundation to Level 2 | Creating Digital Solutions

• VCDTCD032

  Design, modify and follow simple algorithms represented diagrammatically and in English, involving sequences of steps, branching, and iteration

  Elaborations

  • following a diagram of a simple method of sorting numbers or words
  • following, modifying and describing the design of a game involving simple algorithms represented diagrammatically or in English, for example creating a flowchart with software that uses symbols to show decisions, processes and inputs and outputs
  • experimenting with different ways of representing an instruction to make a choice, for example branches in a tree diagram or using an ‘IF’ statement to indicate making a choice between two different circumstances using a spreadsheet or a visual program
  • experimenting with different ways of representing an instruction to make a repetition, for example loops in a flowchart diagram or using a ‘REPEAT’ statement
  • designing the instructions for a robot vacuum cleaner to clean a room
  • using different design tools to record ways in which digital solutions will be developed, for example creating storyboards or flowcharts to record relationships or instructions about content or processes

  VCDTCD032 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Levels 5 and 6 | Creating Digital Solutions