The Level B curriculum focuses on places I live in and developing students’ awareness of the places they experience daily. They are supported to develop their curiosity of place by exploring some...
The Level B curriculum focuses on places I live in and developing students’ awareness of the places they experience daily. They are supported to develop their curiosity of place by exploring some of the significant features of the place and what they do in each. They are developing an emerging understanding of special awareness such as location, direction and distance. Places will range in size from part of a room, to a building or area.
Students are encouraged to explore the space within a place. They use their senses to explore the tangible characteristics of a place such as the features, its environmental and human characteristics. Learning about their own place and building a connection with it contributes to their sense of identify and awareness. Students experience different places and their purposes.
The idea of a place, its purpose, features and location (a part of the concept of space and distance) are introduced through experiences and reinforced through the use of multi-model texts, images, maps, photos and models. The emphasis in Level B is on the significant places in which they live and what they do in each place.
The key questions for Level B are:
By the end of Level B, students can identify some familiar places using photos, images or augmentative alternative communication when asked. They will select to view a multimodal text about a preferred place.
Students experience the familiar features and purposes of places and the representation of these features, purposes and their location as words, gestures, images, pictures and photos. They begin to indicate objects and places they like from a field of two to three choices. They begin to follow everyday language related to direction and location.
The VCAA has recently published the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0. To view the revised curriculum, familiarisation resources and support material, go to the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 website.
