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• VCGGK056

  Places used regularly in the community, their location, activities undertaken in this place and frequency of visits

  Elaborations

  • using pictures, symbols, labels to identify features or spaces in a significant place
  • beginning to use special, locational and directional vocabulary
  • investigating places, activities and frequency of visits
  • exploring places and reason for visiting different places in the community

  VCGGK056 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK070

  Activities in the local place and reasons for their location, and the influence of purpose, distance and accessibility on the frequency with which people visit places

  Elaborations

  • identifying the activities located in their place, such as retailing, medical, educational, police, religious, recreational, farming, manufacturing or office activities, locating them on a pictorial map, and suggesting why they are located where they are
  • investigating the places they and their families visit for shopping recreation, religious or ceremonial activities, or other reasons
  • suggesting what the pattern of visits to places might have been two generations ago and comparing this to their current pattern
  • investigating how people's patterns of visits to places are affected by transport and information and telecommunications technologies

  VCGGK070 | The Humanities | Geography | Foundation to Level 2 | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• Geography: Level D description

  The Level D curriculum focuses on the features of places where students live focusing on developing student’s awareness, understanding and purpose of a place. Students are encouraged to be curious about a place and explore its local area. They use their senses to explore the tangible characteristics...

  Level description | The Humanities | Geography

• VCGGK141

  Ways that places and people are interconnected with other places through trade in goods and services, at all scales

  Elaborations

  • investigating how and why places are interconnected regionally, nationally and globally through trade in goods and services
  • investigating some of the products and/or services that businesses in their town, city or rural region sell to other places
  • examining tourism, students and retirees as sources of income for some places

  VCGGK141 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Knowledge | Geographies of interconnection

• The Humanities | Economics and Business: Learning in Economics and Business

  Foundation to Level 4 – Laying the foundations

  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 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

• VCEBC005

  Consider the effect that the consumer and financial decisions of individuals may have on themselves, their family, the broader community and the natural, economic and business environment

  Elaborations

  • exploring how a decision to buy an item affects the family, for example, ‘Did the family have to put off buying another item to have this one?’ or 'Does what my family buys in the supermarket affect what businesses might sell or produce?'
  • explaining the benefits to themselves and their family of having savings and/or a strategy for saving
  • investigating whether buying at the local supermarket helps the local community
  • considering if their actions have an effect on the environment, for example, does choosing to use recycling shopping bags have an effect on the natural environment?

  VCEBC005 | The Humanities | Economics and Business | Levels 5 and 6 | Consumer and Financial Literacy

• VCEBC004

  Identify influences on consumer choices and explore strategies that can be used to help make informed personal consumer and financial choices

  Elaborations

  • identifying examples of goods and services purchased and listing and explaining the factors that influenced their decision, for example, price, fashion, peer pressure, advertising, taste
  • identifying the variety of selling and advertising strategies used by businesses, for example, television and internet advertising and email promotions
  • exploring the strategies that can be used when making consumer and financial decisions, for example, comparing prices, keeping a record of money spent, saving for the future

  VCEBC004 | The Humanities | Economics and Business | Levels 5 and 6 | Consumer and Financial Literacy

• VCGGK051

  The connection of their school and local community to other places in Australia and across the world

  Elaborations

  • investigating how local celebrations and events link to places in the world
  • exploring the location of places people have visited

  VCGGK051 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK023

  The connection of self to other places in Australia and across the world

  Elaborations

  • experiencing specific activities in a place
  • connecting places to location
  • exploring places they have visited and their location

  VCGGK023 | The Humanities | Geography | Level B | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGC020

  Respond to elements of a space using positive and negative response

  Elaborations

  • choosing to visit a particular place in the community from a small selection of options
  • indicating what they want or where they want to explore within a place
  • indicating a space they want to visit/ use/ stay within a place
  • answering simple questions about a place using ‘yes’ or ‘no’ response or augmentative and alternative communication

  VCGGC020 | The Humanities | Geography | Level B | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Data and information

• VCGGC030

  Link activities to a location

  Elaborations

  • investigating places they visit and what they do there
  • identifying their favourite place and why they like it such as specific features or activities
  • drawing on their own experience to use a place appropriately

  VCGGC030 | The Humanities | Geography | Level C | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGK037

  The connection of their family and peers to other places in Australia and across the world

  Elaborations

  • investigating important local places and events and their connection to other places around the world
  • investigating places their family and peers have visited or are connected to in the world

  VCGGK037 | The Humanities | Geography | Level C | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• 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

• Geography: Foundation to Level 2 description

  From Foundation to Level 2, the curriculum develops the concept of place through a study of what places are like over time and how they are defined. The emphasis in F-2 is on the places in which students live, but they also start to investigate other places of similar size that are familiar to...

  Level description | The Humanities | Geography

• The Humanities | Civics and Citizenship: Resources

  The VCAA provides a range of resources to assist teachers with implementing the Victorian Curriculum F–10. Please visit the following VCAA websites to access these resources (links open in a new window)

  • Victorian Curriculum F–10 resources

  Includes curriculum specific resources...

  Overview material | Civics and Citizenship

• VCGGK022

  Familiar places identified through images at a variety of scales

  Elaborations

  • assisting to collect images of a place at different angles, directions and scales
  • matching images to a place
  • exploring the different scales and images available to represent a place
  • exploring places they have visited and their location in relation to their town, state, Australia and world

  VCGGK022 | The Humanities | Geography | Level B | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGC043

  Identify familiar places and their features, using photos and locational vocabulary

  Elaborations

  • identifying and labelling places they regularly visit
  • discussing the major features and spaces of each place, such as: What do I do here? What do I like/ dislike?
  • exploring all the spaces and features of a space and capturing images of a place
  • becoming familiar with the location of significant community facilities and the spaces within them

  VCGGC043 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection