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• VCNRC011

  Describe aspects of self, such as family, school/class and language/s, recognising how these are part of one’s identity

  Elaborations

  • identifying self as belonging to family, class or peer groups and representing these relationships through drawing pictures or adding captions to photos
  • identifying languages they speak or are learning or with which they are familiar and stating with whom they speak these languages
  • recognising own use of words, expressions or behaviours that make them who they are, such as words from different languages, ways of celebrating or talking that may not be familiar to other people
  • identifying how cultural symbols reflect identity, such as flags of countries, national costumes, famous buildings and treasures, national emblems, sporting emblems/jerseys, and reflecting on own identity

  VCNRC011 | Languages | Non-Roman Alphabet Languages | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Communicating | Reflecting

• VCNRC104

  Participate in collaborative planning and decision making for events and shared experiences, and engage in different forms of spoken and written transactions

  Elaborations

  • planning a performance, event or presentation, making decisions collaboratively, for example, a class party, activities for languages week
  • making transactions in either authentic or simulated situations, such as purchasing goods, checking receipts to confirm the price and other information relating to the purchase, for example, currency conversion, change
  • planning an orientation activity to guide younger students around the school, and collaboratively developing a map of the school with target language names and symbols
  • planning collaboratively for an event by participating in scenarios related to travelling in countries where the target language is spoken for example, planning an itinerary
  • sharing opinions about the benefits of visiting various tourist sites in countries where the language is spoken

  VCNRC104 | Languages | Non-Roman Alphabet Languages | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10 | Communicating | Socialising

• VCVIU136

  Recognise the features and purpose of a range of familiar texts such as stories, greeting cards, recipes, advertisements and posters

  Elaborations

  • classifying a range of texts such as stories, greeting cards, recipes, advertisements and posters according to their purpose(s), for example, to entertain, to describe, to inform or to persuade, and recognising language features typically associated with particular texts, for example, the use of imperatives in recipes, time markers in stories, or recycling symbols on packaging
  • recognising how different textual elements such as titles or headings, layout, images and script combine to make meaning in a text such as an invitation, web page or picture book
  • comparing features of simple spoken and written texts in Vietnamese, such as a verbal greeting or a handwritten postcard, and comparing these with similar texts in English, noting, for example, the format used to write the date and address and different ways of addressing people

  VCVIU136 | Languages | Vietnamese | F–10 Sequence | Levels 3 and 4 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VCADAD035

  Practise and refine technical and expressive skills in style-specific techniques

  Elaborations

  • learn, extending and practising movement vocabulary relevant to specific styles
  • extending technical competences such as articulation, control, coordination, accuracy, alignment, balance, flexibility, strength and endurance
  • using questions to develop or extend understanding of style-specific techniques, for example, viewing dances from different cultures and asking ‘is the relationship between dance, sound or music accompaniment the same for each dance?’, or ‘How costumes and props are used symbolically in dances?’
  • applying safe dance practices when performing a specific dance style, for example, identifying the musculoskeletal system and linking to alignment
  • analysing and practising technical skills to build safe dance practice, for example, develop awareness of self and others in a dance space and use techniques to control movement through the space

  VCADAD035 | The Arts | Dance | Levels 7 and 8 | Dance Practices

• VCAMAR032

  Explain how the elements of media arts and story principles communicate meaning and viewpoints by comparing media artworks from different social, cultural and historical contexts, including media artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

  Elaborations

  • identifying story structures or particular technical or symbolic elements, such as shot type, sound quality, lighting or setting, that contribute to formation of genre in media artworks
  • researching and comparing historical and contemporary media representations and explaining how context influences the characters, stories and values portrayed in the media artworks, for example, comparing TV representations of families
  • discussing the role of media artworks in sharing cultural information about a group of people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and their spirituality using appropriate images and story principles
  • describing protocols about acceptable and unacceptable use of borrowed material in making and publishing media artworks
  • discussing safety issues and cultural sensitivities in relation to acceptable and unacceptable use to personal and cultural images, sounds, and texts when making and publishing media artworks

  VCAMAR032 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 5 and 6 | Respond and Interpret

• VCAVAR032

  Identify and describe how ideas are expressed in artworks by comparing artworks from different contemporary, historical and cultural contexts, including artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  Elaborations

  • making judgments about the practices of artists, what and why they design and create, using visual conventions
  • comparing artworks from different cultures and identifying the ideas expressed by the artist, for example, when comparing paintings from India and Australia, what do they recognise, what is new, what are the different meanings the artists are expressing?
  • explaining the artistic vision of artists from different contexts, for example, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, particularly referencing the meaning the artworks convey
  • analysing how symbolic meanings or metaphors are constructed in their own artworks and artworks of others
  • expressing an opinion about the way numerous artists communicate their viewpoints through their artwork
  • describing their ideas about an issue in an artwork they have created and describe their art making practice, for example, did it make them think more seriously about the issue? Did the rest of the class understand their message?

  VCAVAR032 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 5 and 6 | Respond and Interpret

• VCDEC106

  Identify key words and information in simple shared texts related to personal worlds

  Elaborations

  • recognising symbols, words and phrases of written German, for example, labels, titles and captions
  • recognising key words in stories, rhymes or songs, using intonation and visual cues such as gestures and facial expressions to assist understanding
  • demonstrating understanding by labelling, pointing, matching, clicking, dragging, drawing, miming, facial expressions and actions
  • locating specific words and expressions, for example, in spoken texts by clapping or raising hands, and in written texts by pointing to or highlighting the word(s)
  • ordering/matching items of information in relation to different texts, such as responding to questions about story, for example, Wer ist das? Er hat drei Brüder und wohnt in …

  VCDEC106 | Languages | German | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Communicating | Informing

• VCDEC006

  Engage with imaginative and creative texts by identifying, describing and discussing key elements, including characters, events and ideas

  Elaborations

  • engaging with imaginative texts to respond to questions about characters, events and ideas, for example, producing a profile of a character or a timeline of the main events
  • responding to an imaginative text in various ways, such as using a thinking tool to give opinions about the characters and express reactions to the text, for example, Ich finde das Mädchen sehr lustig. Das Ende ist traurig.
  • selecting images to illustrate a piece of text, such as a picture, colour, symbol or emoticon to reflect the content or mood, and explaining choice, for example, Das Lied ist optimistisch/aggressiv.
  • listening to and viewing performances such as music video clips or extracts from films, sharing reactions with peers, noticing ideas and comparing aspects that may be similar or different across cultures
  • performing a song or poem in response to an imagined experience, incorporating actions and props to enhance meaning and to entertain

  VCDEC006 | Languages | German | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Communicating | Creating

• VCDEU119

  Notice that the languages people use relate to who they are and where and how they live

  Elaborations

  • exploring the meaning of ‘culture’, how it involves visible elements, such as ways of eating or symbols such as flags, and invisible elements, such as how people live, what they value, and how they think about themselves and others
  • understanding that learning German involves ways of using language that may be unfamiliar, for example, using Guten Appetit before commencing a meal or using danke when refusing an offer
  • noticing expressions and terms that are used in Australian contexts, such as for foods, animals, sports and activities, for example, ‘sausage roll’, ‘Vegemite’, ‘joey’, ‘possum’, ‘Little Athletics’
  • understanding that gestures differ across cultures, for example, shaking hands is generally more common in German-speaking countries than in Australia and omission to do so may be considered impolite from a German perspective

  VCDEU119 | Languages | German | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Understanding | Role of language and culture

• VCDSCD050

  Generate, develop and test design ideas, plans and processes using appropriate technical terms and technologies including graphical representation techniques

  Elaborations

  • using a variety of critical and creative thinking strategies such as brainstorming, sketching, 3-D modelling and experimenting to generate innovative design ideas
  • considering which ideas to further explore and investigating the benefits and drawbacks of ideas, for example using digital polling to capture the views of different groups in the community
  • identifying factors that may hinder or enhance project development, for example intercultural understanding
  • developing models, prototypes or samples using a range of materials, tools and equipment to test the functionality of ideas
  • producing annotated concept sketches and drawings, using: technical terms, scale, symbols, pictorial and aerial views to draw environments; production drawings, orthogonal drawings; patterns and templates to explain design ideas
  • documenting and communicating the generation of design ideas for an intended audience, for example developing a digital portfolio with images and text which clearly communicates each step of a design process

  VCDSCD050 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Levels 7 and 8 | Creating Designed Solutions | Generating

• VCDTCD030

  Define problems in terms of data and functional requirements, drawing on previously solved problems to identify similarities

  Elaborations

  • checking existing solutions to identify features that are transferable to new but similar digital solutions, for example identifying if there are any similarities, such as user age and special requirements, between an existing game and a new game to be created
  • investigating characteristics of user interfaces that are common for particular types of problems, for example, touch screens encourage users to respond more intuitively than keyboards, or the consistent placement of symbols in games to speed up users' responses
  • using and interpreting data, establishing the root cause of a problem, for example using an annotated diagram to identify omissions, duplications or mismatches of data
  • describing in simple terms the nature of a problem and what a solution needs to achieve, for example what need the problem is associated with, who the solution is needed for, what data are needed and what features the solution would need to include

  VCDTCD030 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Levels 5 and 6 | 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

• VCDTCD031

  Design a user interface for a digital system, generating and considering alternative design ideas

  Elaborations

  • exploring different features of user interfaces that allow people from different cultures to access information irrespective of language background, for example using icons and consistently placing icons or symbols in games interfaces to reduce the frustrations of game players
  • applying the principles and elements of design to a set of requirements in order to produce a user interface for a system that addresses an identified need, for example to emphasise or highlight an area of the screen to draw the viewer’s attention to an event or action
  • designing the user interface of a solution using different design tools, for example using a storyboard to outline the stages of a game or a mock-up to show the placement of icons
  • generating alternative design ideas for a user interface, for example sketching different concepts for a splash screen of a game or interactive multimedia experience or designing different user interfaces for people with visibility loss, taking into account size of icons and responsive font size

  VCDTCD031 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Levels 5 and 6 | Creating Digital Solutions

• VCDTDI036

  Investigate how digital systems represent text, image and sound data in binary

  Elaborations

  • explaining that characters in text correspond to numbers defined by the character set, for example ‘A’ corresponds to 65 in the ASCII and Unicode character sets
  • recognising that Unicode attempts to represent the written symbols of every language; and using Unicode charts to look up characters from Asian writing systems
  • investigating the different representation of bitmap and vector graphics and its consequences, for example pixelation in magnified bitmap and vector images
  • investigating how colours are represented in images and videos, for example manipulating red, green and blue (RGB) colours in an image editor
  • converting between decimal and 8-bit (1 byte) unsigned binary, covering whole numbers typically used for characters and RGB, for example 65 in decimal is 01000001 in 8-bit binary
  • explaining ways media elements are presented, for example the difference between embedded and linked media elements

  VCDTDI036 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Levels 7 and 8 | Data and Information

• VCELC108

  Participate in shared imaginative activities and respond in a variety of ways such as through predicting, singing, chanting, play-acting and movement

  Elaborations

  • reading shared imaginative digital and online texts, repeating words and rehearsed language patterns, and making predictions about the storyline and characters, using cues from the heading, symbols, pictures and words in the text
  • performing songs, chants and rhymes in response to an imaginative digital or online text, for example, Η πολύ πεινασμένη κάμπια, experimenting with different expressive effects, such as using simple gestures or different voices
  • interacting with a character or puppet in an imaginary situation or setting, for example, ‘Spot the dog’, Πού είναι ο Σπότ; Τί κάνει ο Σποτ;
  • acting out their favourite character or event from a shared story and making simple statements, for example, Είμαι η Μορμώ.

  VCELC108 | Languages | Modern Greek | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Communicating | Creating

• VCELC127

  Translate and interpret words, phrases and sentences used in familiar environments such as school and home, recognising how they may have similar or different meanings to words in English or other known languages

  Elaborations

  • playing matching games with Greek and English word cards, for example, days of the week, months, seasons or vocabulary associated with weather
  • translating simple sentences into Greek, such as requests in the classroom, to understand the gist, noticing how meaning changes when translating into English, as in the case of expressions of politeness, for example, Ένα μολύβι, παρακαλώ or Θα ήθελα ένα μολύβι, παρακαλώ (A literal translation of Μπορώ να έχω ένα μολύβι, σε παρακαλώ; would not be used in Greek.)
  • translating signs or phrases in familiar contexts from Greek into English, for example, street signs, addresses, food labels (Δελφών 30, ΟΔΟΣ ΕΡΜΟΥ, ΦΡΕΣΚΟ ΓΑΛΑ, 4€), noting that some signs and symbols are universal, for example, the ‘stop’ sign

  VCELC127 | Languages | Modern Greek | F–10 Sequence | Levels 3 and 4 | Communicating | Translating

• VCELC147

  Share experiences of learning and using Greek, in person or online, and reflect on the effect of language learning on own identity

  Elaborations

  • preparing a class profile to exchange with students in Greece or Cyprus online, showing language backgrounds and interests represented in the class, using captions and symbols such as flags and words from different languages
  • exploring the idea of stereotypes associated with languages and identities, and discussing how stereotypes affect attitudes and communication and can be inaccurate
  • exploring how their linguistic and cultural background, for example, languages spoken, key relationships and intercultural experiences, influence their sense of who they are
  • connecting various personal experiences of learning Modern Greek, and describing how learning Greek has influenced own everyday behaviour and language use, for example, using Greek outside the language classroom, playing Greek games, or having lunch at a Greek restaurant and being able to read some of the menu
  • considering whether learning and using Greek impacts on their sense of identity either in or out of the classroom

  VCELC147 | Languages | Modern Greek | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6 | Communicating | Reflecting

• VCELC022

  Adapt and present information and ideas on a variety of topics using presentation modes selected to suit different audiences and to achieve specific purposes

  Elaborations

  • expressing opinions on an event or performance, such as a contemporary Greek film or a Karagiozi theatre performance
  • presenting information in different formats, such as captioned photographs, digital presentation or emails, on cultural events, for example, an Antipodes festival/Glendi, traditional dance performances and costumes
  • explaining a Greek custom or practice to an Australian audience, for example, Απόκριες, using simple language and supporting graphics, materials and gestures
  • creating persuasive texts, such as brochures or video clips, for example, to encourage people from the wider community to attend a cultural event or to recycle waste containers and materials
  • conveying information in texts, such as brochures, notices, cartoons, video clips, to introduce and explain aspects of Greek art, history and culture and their influence, for example, the Hippocratic Oath, the snakes and staff symbol relating to medicine, and structures such as the Shrine of Remembrance

  VCELC022 | Languages | Modern Greek | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10 | Communicating | Informing

• VCELU153

  Explore the relationship between language and culture and how they are reflected in communication styles

  Elaborations

  • discussing own and peers’ understanding of concepts and messages expressed in stories/myths/lyrics, for example, the adventures of Odysseus and the concept of life’s ‘odyssey’ or journey, stories of migration or the teachings of Aesop’s fables
  • recognising that language use can have connections to cultural practices, such as celebrating birthdays and name days, 25^η Μαρτίου in the diaspora
  • reflecting on the experience of learning Greek language and culture and identifying situations that have provided awareness of own cultural practices and values, for example, attending a Greek festival or show
  • understanding the meaning of wishes such as Να σας ζήσει, Καλά στέφανα, Χρόνια Πολλά, Να τα εκατοστίσεις and the concepts of φιλότιμο and φιλοξενία
  • discussing the meaning of culture, how it involves visible elements such as symbols, food, national costumes, dancing and language, and invisible elements such as values and beliefs

  VCELU153 | Languages | Modern Greek | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6 | Understanding | Role of language and culture

• VCELU136

  Make connections between cultural practices and language use, for example, by identifying vocabulary, behaviours and expressions which reflect cultural values, beliefs and traditions

  Elaborations

  • examining aspects of authentic Greek culture, for example, sugared almonds at weddings and baptisms, βασιλόπιτα,τσουρέκι, their symbolism and the language associated with them
  • understanding concepts and values such as το γλέντι, and η παρέα , το πανηγύρι for example, during Greek festivals, birthdays and name days
  • recognising and explaining to others the significance of some Greek cultural practices sustained over time, for example, reasons for traditional Greek housing and events, for example, offering visitors food and drink, το κέρασμα στη γιορτή
  • experiencing the importance of music and dance in Greek culture, as an expression of identity and emotions (happiness, joy, sadness, national pride)

  VCELU136 | Languages | Modern Greek | F–10 Sequence | Levels 3 and 4 | Understanding | Role of language and culture