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• Spanish - 7–10 Sequence: Levels 7 and 8 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 8, students share information about their personal worlds, including personal details, family, friends, leisure activities, likes and dislikes, for example, Hola amigo, ¿Cómo estás? Me gusta tocar la guitarra, No me gusta comer carne. They interact with...

  Level description | Languages | Spanish | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8

• Turkish - 7–10 Sequence: Levels 7 and 8 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 8, students interact with the teacher and peers to exchange information and express opinions, for example, Arkadaşlarımla sinemaya gitmeyi severim. They use descriptive and expressive language to share feelings and to express preferences such as Suyu gazoza tercih ederim. Student...

  Level description | Languages | Turkish | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8

• VCMNA129

  Investigate the conditions required for a number to be odd or even and identify odd and even numbers

  Elaborations

  • identifying even numbers using skip counting by twos or by grouping even collections of objects in twos
  • explaining why all numbers that end in the digits 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8 are even and that numbers ending in 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 are odd

  VCMNA129 | Mathematics | Level 3 | Number and Algebra | Number and place value

• VCDEC126

  Create imaginative texts such as simple plays, poems and stories, using formulaic expressions and modelled language as well as simple visual supports

  Elaborations

  • collaborating to create and perform a new version of a traditional or contemporary text, for example, the script of a play for the German fairy tale Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten
  • creating and performing a puppet play involving a German character and an Australian character, such as die Maus (Die Sendung mit der Maus) meeting Bananas in Pyjamas or an Igel meeting an echidna, using modelled German language
  • using digital technologies to create and illustrate short imaginative texts designed to amuse or entertain, such as Mein Traumhaus (Ich wohne in einem Schloss. Mein Schloss ist sehr alt, groβ und schön.) or fantasy stories featuring imaginary creatures
  • producing and presenting illustrated or multimodal texts using a modelled structure, for example, an acrostic poem based on their first name or Elfchen

  VCDEC126 | Languages | German | F–10 Sequence | Levels 3 and 4 | Communicating | Creating

• Design and Technologies: Levels 7 and 8 description

  In Levels 7 and 8, students investigate and select from a range of technologies. They consider the ways characteristics and properties of technologies can be combined to create designed solutions to problems for individuals and the community, considering society and ethics, and economic, environmental...

  Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies

• Digital Technologies: Levels 7 and 8 description

  In Levels 7 and 8, students analyse the properties of networked systems and their suitability and use for the transmission of data types. They acquire, analyse, validate and evaluate various types of data, and appreciate the complexities of storing and transmitting that data in digital systems.

  Stude...

  Level description | Technologies | Digital Technologies

• History: Levels 7 and 8 description

  The Ancient World to the Modern World

  In Levels 7 and 8, students study history from the time of the earliest human communities to the end of the ancient period, approximately 60 000 BC (BCE) – c.650 AD (CE). It also covers the period from the end of the ancient period to the beginning of...

  Level description | The Humanities | History

• Languages | Auslan: Structure

  Sequences of learning

  The Auslan curriculum takes account of different entry points into language learning across F–10, which reflects current practice in language teaching.

  There are two possible learning sequences:

  • F–10 sequence for students who begin to learn the language in primary...

  Overview material | Auslan

• Mathematics: Level 4 description

  In Level 4, students extend the number system to simple decimal fractions, and broaden their use of measures and scales.

  Students model, represent and order numbers to tens of thousands, and extend place value to tenths and hundredths. They investigate odd and even numbers and explore number patterns...

  Level description | Mathematics

• Music: Levels 7 and 8 description

  In Levels 7 and 8, students make and respond to music independently and collaboratively, with their peers, teachers and communities.

  Students using listening skills to identify and make decisions about how they can manipulate rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, and timbre...

  Level description | The Arts | Music

• The Humanities | Geography: Structure

  Geography is organised by two strands: Geographical Concepts and Skills and Geographical Knowledge.

  Strand: Geographical Concepts and Skills

  Sub-strands
  Place, space and interconnection
  Data and information

  Strand: Geographical Knowledge

  Level	Sub-strands
  Levels A – D Foundation – Level 2	Places a...

  Overview material | Geography

• VCELU169

  Recognise that Modern Greek has evolved from Ancient Greek and that changes to the Greek alphabet, number system and style of writing have occurred through the ages; considering factors that have influenced this change

  Elaborations

  • finding examples of Greek script throughout history, such as on pots and stone slabs, for example, the Rosetta Stone, the entrance to Delphi, tombstones in Vergina, Byzantine artefacts, coins and old books, observing how different styles of writing have developed
  • understanding that there are different forms of written Greek used in different contexts dating from the ancient world to today
  • recognising that meanings of particular words and expressions can originate from earlier times, for example, εντάξει

  VCELU169 | Languages | Modern Greek | F–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Understanding | Language variation and change

• VCMNA020

  Explore the concept of ‘none’, ‘one’ and ‘more’

  Elaborations

  • recognising a change in a collection’s size within the context of familiar, everyday objects, for example a group of cars, toys, lollies, fruit, vegetables, coins, books, materials or tools
  • demonstrating an understanding of one by selecting, giving or taking one object
  • responding to questions about group composition (for example ‘Which group has more?’ ‘Which group has none?’) verbally or by indicating through augmentative and alternative communication, actions or eye gaze

  VCMNA020 | Mathematics | Level B | Number and Algebra | Number and place value

• VC2M3P02

  conduct repeated chance experiments; identify and describe possible outcomes, record the results, and recognise and discuss the variation

  Elaborations

  • identifying the possible outcomes of a chance experiment, creating a tally chart to record results, carrying out a few trials and tallying the results for each trial, and then responding to the questions ‘How did your results vary for each trial?’ and ‘How do the results vary across the class?’
  • conducting repeated trials of chance experiments such as tossing a coin, throwing a dice, drawing a coloured or numbered ball from a bag, or using a coloured spinner with equal partitions, and identifying the variation in the number of heads/fives/reds between trials

  VC2M3P02 | Mathematics | Mathematics Version 2.0 | Level 3 | Probability

• VCDEC003

  Participate in classroom routines and exchanges by following instructions, asking and answering questions, apologising and making requests

  Elaborations

  • responding with actions/gestures to questions such as Wo ist … ? and instructions such as Steht auf! Alle zusammen! Mach die Tür bitte zu!
  • using repair strategies such as asking for repetition or details of tasks and expressing lack of knowledge, for example, Wie bitte?; Welche Seite?; Wie sagt man das auf Deutsch?; Ich verstehe das nicht .
  • apologising, for example, Entschuldigung!, Es tut mir leid
  • making polite requests, including for assistance and permission, for example, Ich möchte … , bitte; Hilfe, bitte!; Darf ich bitte auf die Toilette gehen?

  VCDEC003 | Languages | German | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Communicating | Socialising

• VCESC111

  Recognise and respond to classroom interactions such as opening and closing of lessons, transition activities, answering simple questions and following classroom instructions

  Elaborations

  • participating in class routines such as taking the roll and stating the day and date, for example, hoy es lunes 26 de julio
  • interacting with one another during class activities, for example, vamos al recreo, ¿puedo ir al baño? gracias, lo siento, por favor, dame el borrador
  • responding to classroom instructions through actions, gestures and verbal responses such as siéntense/sentaos, silencio, escuchen/escuchad, recojan/recoged sus/vuestras cosas, formen un círculo, todos de pie, levanta la mano
  • demonstrating and mimicking hand gestures, intonation patterns or facial expressions that accompany language or stand alone, for example, shrugs or exclamations such as ¡Hala! ¡Uf!

  VCESC111 | Languages | Spanish | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Communicating | Socialising

• VCEALC424

  Access, interpret and evaluate information from a range of print and digital texts, including visual, multimodal and interactive

  Elaborations

  • following instructions to find the appropriate page in a book and identifying the topic and main ideas
  • comparing two simple websites on the same topic to choose the more useful one

  VCEALC424 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC763

  Understand most symbols and changes of font style and how they contribute to or change the meanings in a text

  Elaborations

  • identifying changes in font style (such as italic and bold) or symbols or icons and explaining their function
  • recognising navigational features such as menu items or links on a website

  VCEALC763 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C4 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCCCTQ045

  Challenge previously held assumptions and create new links, proposals and artefacts by investigating ideas that provoke shifts in perspectives and cross boundaries to generate ideas and solutions

  Elaborations

  • investigating changes to scientific understanding over time, including how new discoveries helped to shift understandings and considering how existing understandings might be shifted in the future
  • discussing how challenging assumptions and being open-minded can assist in developing enterprising behaviours, supported by research on specific entrepreneurs
  • investigating how food myths and fads have been challenged and community perspectives shifted, when planning a community health initiative
  • exploring change in scale as a way to shift perspective, for example beginning with asking ‘what if we could only buy and eat food grown locally’ and then asking ‘what if we could only buy and eat food grown regionally/nationally’ as part of a process for generating suggested responses to improve food security or mitigate an environmental challenge

  VCCCTQ045 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 9 and 10 | Questions and Possibilities

• VCDEC109

  Express ideas and experiences in a variety of ways using familiar words and modelled language, such as through imaginative role-play, mime, drawing, oral discussion or scaffolded writing activities

  Elaborations

  • using story maps to share an imaginative experience such as what they would eat over a week, for example, like the caterpillar in Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt, using digital technologies
  • creating and presenting own Big Books in German based on a familiar Australian text such as ‘Tiddalick’ or ‘Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree’
  • creating short dialogues, for example, between dolls, puppets and toys, using familiar modelled language

  VCDEC109 | Languages | German | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Communicating | Creating