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• VCHHC040

  Sequence significant family milestones

  Elaborations

  • identifying images of personally significant milestones
  • assisting to sequence images of major milestones into a text
  • using chronological terms to label milestones, for example first, before, after, next, one, two etc.

  VCHHC040 | The Humanities | History | Level D | Historical Concepts and Skills | Chronology

• VCHHK051

  Explore the significance of cultural or spiritual places to us today and to people in the past

  Elaborations

  • exploring the cultural and spiritual significance of a place today and in the past
  • assisting with the collecting, sorting and collating of artefacts to represent the culture and/or spiritual significance of a place through time

  VCHHK051 | The Humanities | History | Level D | Historical Knowledge | Community histories

• VCHHK022

  Similarities and differences within their daily life from day to day

  Elaborations

  • exploring weekly timetables and calendar to explore significant events that do not happen everyday
  • responding to similarities and differences within their day and completing some routine events with decreasing assistance

  VCHHK022 | The Humanities | History | Level B | Historical Knowledge | Personal histories

• VCHHC056

  Identify examples of continuity and change in family life and in the local area by comparing past and present

  Elaborations

  • suggesting ideas about what objects from the past may have been used for
  • distinguishing between what is old and what is new, using such clues as the condition of the object
  • locating historical evidence of the local community including signs of the past in the present, for example, place and street names, monuments, built and non-built historical landmarks
  • identifying features of a site, such as dates, decorations and plaques on buildings, that reveal its past

  VCHHC056 | The Humanities | History | Foundation to Level 2 | Historical Concepts and Skills | Continuity and change

• VCGGC032

  Collect geographical data and information

  Elaborations

  • collecting objects, images and photos when visiting significant places such as community facilities
  • using images and objects to assist them to recall and label their experience/s within a place
  • recording and reflecting on visits to a community facility by making simple picture story books of their visits
  • assisting to construct multimodal texts which describe the journey to significant places, for example indicating a sound or photo to represent part of the journey or feature passed

  VCGGC032 | The Humanities | Geography | Level C | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Data and information

• Economics and Business: Levels 9 and 10 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 10, students describe how resources are allocated and distributed in the Australian economy and the way economic performance is measured. They provide explanations for variations in economic performance and standards of living within and between economies. Students explain...

  Level description | The Humanities | Economics and Business | Levels 9 and 10

• Geography: Level C description

  The Level C curriculum focuses on local places I live in and developing student’s exploration and curiosity of personally significant places. Students will build on their knowledge of the local space around personal significant places. Students will draw on their own experience to help them understand...

  Level description | The Humanities | Geography

• The Humanities | Economics and Business: Resources

  A range of resources to assist with implementing the Victorian Curriculum F – 10 are available. Please visit the following websites to access these resources (links open in a new window):

  • Victorian Curriculum F – 10 Resources and Support (VCAA)

  Includes general advice and information...

  Overview material | Economics and Business

• The Humanities | Geography: Resources

  A range of resources to assist with implementing the Victorian Curriculum F – 10 are available. Please visit the following websites to access these resources (links open in a new window):

  • Victorian Curriculum F – 10 Resources and Support (VCAA)

  Includes general advice and information...

  Overview material | Geography

• The Humanities | History: Resources

  A range of resources to assist with implementing the Victorian Curriculum F – 10 are available. Please visit the following websites to access these resources (links open in a new window):

  • Victorian Curriculum F – 10 Resources and Support (VCAA)

  Includes general advice and information...

  Overview material | History

• VCGGC076

  Interpret maps and other geographical data and information to develop identifications, descriptions, explanations and conclusions, using geographical terminology including simple grid references, compass direction and distance

  Elaborations

  • constructing tables or graphs to show the similarities and differences between places, and discussing possible reasons for them
  • discussing and comparing how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples may represent places and their features visually, for example, in paintings and sand drawings, and identifying the symbols and patterns used.
  • comparing a range of thematic maps, for example, maps of relief, climate, vegetation, animals and bird life to find relationships
  • using geographical terms to explain relationships, for example between the environment and sustaining life
  • describing the relative location of different features in a place by distance and compass direction. For example, from their home to the local waste management site

  VCGGC076 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 3 and 4 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Data and information

• VCGGK109

  The spiritual, economic, cultural and aesthetic value of water for people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and peoples of the Asia region, that influence the significance of places

  Elaborations

  • examining and comparing places in Australia and countries of the Asia region that have economies and communities based on irrigation. For example, rice production in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area in NSW and the Mekong Delta in Vietnam
  • exploring the multilayered meanings (material, cultural and spiritual wellbeing) associated with rivers, waterholes, seas, lakes, soaks and springs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  • examining bays, rivers, waterfalls or lakes in Australia and in countries of the Asia region that have been listed as either World Heritage sites or national parks for their aesthetic and cultural value
  • investigating the spiritual significance of water in an Asian culture

  VCGGK109 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Knowledge | Water in the world

• VCGGK096

  Environmental and human influences on the location and characteristics of places and the management of spaces within them

  Elaborations

  • comparing how people have responded to climatic conditions in similar and different places and factors that may have influenced this such as culture and technology
  • investigating the influence of landforms on the development of settlements that are involved in food and fibre production. For example, river valleys such as the Murray-Darling, Yellow (Huang He), Yangtze, Amazon, Mekong or Ganges
  • explaining why most Australians live close to the coast rather than in inland Australia
  • examining how the use of the space within their local place is organised through zoning
  • investigating a current local planning issue, such as the redevelopment of a site, preservation of open space or subdivision of farming land, exploring why people have different views on the issue, and developing a class response to it

  VCGGK096 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 5 and 6 | Geographical Knowledge | Factors that shape places and influence interconnections

• VCHHC099

  Analyse and corroborate sources and ask questions about their accuracy, usefulness and reliability

  Elaborations

  • differentiating between primary sources (those from the time of the event/person/site being investigated) and secondary sources (those that represent later interpretation).
  • organising historical sources into artefacts, visual, written, audio
  • asking questions of sources when identify origin, content, explaining context, and analysing reliability the usefulness about the historical context
  • discussing the difficulties in identifying the origin and purpose of some sources
  • creating categories with which to organise information obtained from sources. Identifying features and symbols in primary source
  • creating an annotated visual concept map using historical sources to explain the changes brought to Europe during the Renaissance

  VCHHC099 | The Humanities | History | Levels 7 and 8 | Historical Concepts and Skills | Historical sources as evidence

• VCHHK078

  The diversity and longevity of Australia’s first peoples and the significant ways Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are connected to Country and Place (land, sea, waterways and skies) and the effects on their daily lives

  Elaborations

  • examining early archaeological sites that show the longevity of the Aboriginal people, for example, Nauwalabila, Malakunanja, Devil’s Lair, Lake Mungo and Preminghana
  • mapping the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language groups in Australia, with particular emphasis on the local area and state/territory
  • investigating pre-contact ways of life of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders people, their knowledge of their environment including land management practices, their sense of the interconnectedness of Country/Place, people, culture and identity, and some of their principles, such as caring for country, caring for each other and respecting all things
  • studying totems in the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and examining the differences between their totems

  VCHHK078 | The Humanities | History | Levels 3 and 4 | Historical Knowledge | First contacts

• VCGGK021

  Moving to different places and recognising some features/places on the way

  Elaborations

  • experiencing transportation, places and activities being represented using word, gesture, Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) and/or image
  • responding to significant objects/ places on a journey, for example, truck, shopping centre
  • assisting to constructed a multimedia text to represent a place and the journey there

  VCGGK021 | The Humanities | Geography | Level B | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCHHC044

  Develop a narrative about a significant family member and/or place

  Elaborations

  • assisting to construct texts that retell history including significant milestones events of a significant family member or place
  • using images and objects to give a simple retelling about a significant place, milestone or event
  • reacting to and recognising some changes to a place, person or self over time, such as a change in hair and physical features

  VCHHC044 | The Humanities | History | Level D | Historical Concepts and Skills | Historical significance

• VCHHC015

  Explore a range of sources that show families over time

  Elaborations

  • explore photos, film, objects and stories about their family past and present
  • assisting to create and view various multimedia texts related to them, their family, recent events
  • experiencing a range of sensory texts that explore recent events and the associated objects and elements
  • exploring objects and elements used during events, such as balloons, streamers, candles etc.

  VCHHC015 | The Humanities | History | Level B | Historical Concepts and Skills | Historical sources as evidence

• VCHHC017

  Explore features of objects from the past and present

  Elaborations

  • exploring personally significant toys and objects from their past and present
  • sharing and assisting to sort significant toys and objects from their past and present
  • viewing texts or slideshow presenting significant objects in chronological order from a person’s past and present

  VCHHC017 | The Humanities | History | Level B | Historical Concepts and Skills | Continuity and change

• VCHHK052

  Explore technologies of the past and today and what people like and why

  Elaborations

  • exploring and matching past and present technologies which help in the same way
  • learning what technologies their parents and grandparents had to assist in their everyday life
  • investigating what technologies different people use, what technologies different people like the most and why

  VCHHK052 | The Humanities | History | Level D | Historical Knowledge | Community histories