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• VCCCTR058

  Encounter information and ideas through everyday experiences, problems and exploration

  Elaborations

  • experiences their actions and choices being interpreted by an adult
  • reacting and developing ideas about preferences on objects and people in the world around them
  • exposed to the possibility and connection of ideas by exploring objects and events

  VCCCTR058 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level A | Reasoning

• VCCCTM062

  Experience various problem solving approaches

  Elaborations

  • encountering their world through sensory experiences and sharing responses to solve a problem
  • beginning to develop preferences to people and objects through experiences
  • experiencing their wants and needs being interpreted and solved by an adult
  • experiencing a variety of strategies that can be used to assist them to solve a problem

  VCCCTM062 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level A | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTQ073

  Explore how past experience influences thinking and reactions to situations

  Elaborations

  • using everyday problems and situations to explore personal reactions to situations and how this can affect their response
  • exploring how prior knowledge and past experience can be used to make predictions and understand the world around them
  • exploring how prior knowledge and past experience can be used to solve problems

  VCCCTQ073 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level C | Questions and Possibilities

• VCCCTR067

  Experience information and ideas by participating in routine experiences

  Elaborations

  • exploring the world around them by attempting different courses of actions
  • experiencing step by step activities and experiencing teachers explaining course of action
  • evaluating procedures and outcomes by experiencing the effect of their actions throughout daily activities
  • sharing ideas about what keeps you safe during routine experiences

  VCCCTR067 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Reasoning

• VCCCTQ022

  Experiment with alternative ideas and actions by setting preconceptions to one side

  Elaborations

  • using set brainstorming rules such as deferring judgment, or building on the ideas of others, as part of a small group creating a Rube Goldberg machine
  • identifying and then setting aside preconceptions on the impact of consumer choices, to consider other perspectives from the broader community
  • exploring how to set preconceptions aside by constructing an opposing view, for example writing a paragraph about their favourite book or movie and preparing possible ideas to oppose their original view

  VCCCTQ022 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 5 and 6 | Questions and Possibilities

• VCNRC038

  Obtain, organise and compare information about aspects of daily life and significant events from written, spoken, or digital texts

  Elaborations

  • identifying information in texts, such as conversations and brochures, and sharing this information with others in a different format, for example, presenting a chart of favourite television programs or computer games
  • obtaining information about and comparing seasons and festivals in countries where the language is spoken, for example, summer holidays in July rather than January
  • viewing advertisements on television and in other media, in order to develop a shared set of vocabulary and expressions to create own advertisements
  • viewing, listening to and reading simple texts about a celebration

  VCNRC038 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 5 and 6 | Communicating | Informing

• VCCCTR049

  Consider ambiguity and equivocation and how they affect the strength of arguments

  Elaborations

  • identifying phrases or words in an argument that are misleading because they do not contain a single meaning and discussing which meaning serves the argument better
  • discussing why ambiguity and/or equivocation might be deliberately used in a point of view, for example to express humour
  • examining strategies to resolve ambiguities such as declaring a definition or making context clearer

  VCCCTR049 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 9 and 10 | Reasoning

• VCCCTQ044

  Suspend judgements to allow new possibilities to emerge and investigate how this can broaden ideas and solutions

  Elaborations

  • comparing a creative process that quickly follows initial judgements to one that intentionally suspends judgements over a period of time and reflecting on the quality of the ideas produced
  • exploring optimum conditions for an ‘incubation period’ when problem-solving, for example ‘sleeping on it’, or undertaking a distracting menial task and then returning to the problem
  • using technology for experimenting with the relationships between compositions of functions, such as resultant shapes and behaviours, which may then be used in modelling and understanding a range of real-world phenomena

  VCCCTQ044 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 9 and 10 | Questions and Possibilities

• VCCCTR024

  Investigate common reasoning errors including contradiction and inconsistency, and the influence of context

  Elaborations

  • using an example such as the statement: "I love chocolate and I hate chocolate" to discuss whether different contexts can explain apparent inconsistencies
  • identifying an apparent contradiction in a point of view and discussing whether clarifying what is meant would resolve it; for example, clarifying that apparently having time to pay attention to the teacher but not to read the textbook is not a contradiction about wanting to learn but rather an indication of difficulty in understanding the textbook

  VCCCTR024 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 5 and 6 | Reasoning

• VCNRU014

  Recognise features of familiar spoken, written and visual texts

  Elaborations

  • listening to, reading and viewing different simple texts in the language, understanding that texts can be short or long, spoken, written, digital, visual or multimodal, for example songs, chants, labels, captions, stories and dialogues
  • identifying the language being studied from a selection of spoken or written texts from other languages represented in the classroom or in the school
  • comparing similar texts in the language with English and noticing how they are the same or different, for example, a counting song, street signs or labels at a market

  VCNRU014 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Foundation to Level 2 | Understanding | Systems of language