Victorian Curriculum / Capabilities / Critical and Creative Thinking / Questions and Possibilities
Investigate different techniques to sort facts and extend known ideas to generate novel and imaginative ideas (VCCCTQ012)
Frame by Frame Creativity Preview Unit |
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The Concept of Creativity
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will consider how people in a range of professions think and act creatively. |
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Developing Ideas for Characters
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will develop ideas for characters in their story. |
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Developing Ideas for Props
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will develop ideas for props for their characters. |
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Developing Ideas for Settings
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn to develop ideas for different settings for their story. |
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Storyboarding for Animation
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will select the most interesting scene from their story to animate and they will develop a storyboard for this scene. |
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Improving a Storyboard
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will use the Questions Matrix to develop questions about their Creativity Buddy's storyboard. |
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Designing My Set
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will design a cardboard box set for their stop motion animation. |
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Scamper for My Set
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will use SCAMPER to improve their set design. |
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Building My Set
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will build a cardboard box set for their stop motion animation. |
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Designing My Prop
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will design a prop to use in their stop motion animation. |
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Building My Prop
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will build a prop for their stop motion animation. |
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Using a New Tool
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will explore the application that they are going to use to capture images for their stop motion animation. |
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Capturing Images for My Animation
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will capture images for their stop motion animation. |
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Preparing for the Creativity Expo
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will practise answering questions about what they have learnt in preparation for their Creativity Expo. |
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Immersion
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will be immersed into animations as they create a simple hand-drawn animation. |
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Introducing the Unit
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will learn what they are going to do during this learning sequence. |
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Glossary of Creativity
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will learn the words related to this learning sequence. |
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Habit of Mind: Creating, Imagining and Innovating
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will use SCAMPER to redesign an item in their classroom. |
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Habit of Mind: Striving for Accuracy and Precision
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will learn how striving for accuracy and precision complements creative thinking. |
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Developing Ideas for the Story
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will select an idea to be the basis of their story. |
Our Island Home Connections Preview Unit |
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The Concept of Connections
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will develop a Mind Map about themselves as they learn about how we make connections in our minds and in our lives. |
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Pretest
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will complete a Mind Map to show what they know about climate, natural features, heat and built environments. |
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Future Action
· Future Action and Independent Inquiry
Your students will create a Mind Map about a place or places that they would like to visit as a result of what they have learnt during this learning sequence. |
Someone Else's Shoes Social Justice Preview Unit |
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Fairness Inspectors
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn about the importance of accessibility as they assess how wheelchair friendly their school is. |
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Conducting an Independent Inquiry
· Future Action and Independent Inquiry
Your students will practise the skills of questioning, research and working independently as they conduct an inquiry into a topic that they have learnt about during this unit. |
The Blue Marble Sustainability Preview Unit |
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Planning An Independent Inquiry
· Future Action and Independent Inquiry
Your students will plan an inquiry into an aspect of this unit that they would like to learn more about. |
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Conducting An Independent Inquiry
· Future Action and Independent Inquiry
Your students will practise the skills of questioning, research and working independently as they conduct an inquiry into a topic that they have learnt about during this unit. |
The Buzz About Bees Question-Based Investigations Preview Unit |
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Assessment
· Synthesis Phase
You will conduct a conference with each student to assess their understanding of the content they have learnt during their research. |
Age of Exploration Question-Based Investigations Preview Unit |
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Assessment
· Synthesis Phase
You will conduct a conference with each student to assess their understanding of the content they have learnt during their research. |