Concept-Based Question-Based Subject-Based (Science)

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Vic Curriculum Map

Foundation · Question Based Investigations

	Health and Physical Education Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Health and Physical Education	Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home	Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story	Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship	Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies
	Personal, Social and Community Health
•	Participate in play that promotes engagement with outdoor settings including aquatic and the natural environment VCHPEP063				1
•	Identify actions that promote health, safety and wellbeing VCHPEP062				1
•	Practise personal and social skills to interact with others VCHPEP060			1
•	Identify and describe emotional responses people may experience in different situations VCHPEP061			1
•	Identify people and actions that help keep themselves safe and healthy VCHPEP059			1	1

	Design and Technologies Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Technologies / Design and Technologies	Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home	Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story	Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship	Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies
	Technologies Contexts
•	Explore the characteristics and properties of materials and components that are used to create designed solutions VCDSTC017	1
	Creating Designed Solutions
•	Use personal preferences to evaluate the success of design ideas, processes and solutions including their care for environment VCDSCD021	1
•	Sequence steps for making designed solutions VCDSCD022	1
•	Visualise, generate, and communicate design ideas through describing, drawing and modelling VCDSCD019	1
•	Use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to produce designed solutions safely VCDSCD020	1
•	Explore needs or opportunities for designing, and the technologies needed to realise designed solutions VCDSCD018	1

	Critical and Creative Thinking Victorian Curriculum / Capabilities / Critical and Creative Thinking	Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home	Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story	Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship	Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies
	Questions and Possibilities
•	Consider personal reactions to situations or problems and how these reactions may influence thinking VCCCTQ002			1	1
•	Identify, describe and use different kinds of question stems to gather information and ideas VCCCTQ001	1	1	1	1
	Reasoning
•	Examine words that show reasons and words that show conclusions VCCCTR004				1
•	Compare and contrast information and ideas in own and others reasoning VCCCTR005			1
	Meta-Cognition
•	Explore some learning strategies, including planning, repetition, rewording, memorisation and use of mnemonics VCCCTM008	1	1
•	Investigate ways to problem-solve, using egocentric and experiential language VCCCTM009	1		1
•	Consider ways to express and describe thinking activity, including the expression of feelings about learning, both to others and self VCCCTM007			1	1

	Ethical Capability Victorian Curriculum / Capabilities / Ethical Capability	Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home	Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story	Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship	Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies
	Understanding Concepts
•	Explore the meaning of right and wrong, good and bad, as concepts concerned with the outcomes of acts VCECU001			1	1
	Decision Making and Actions
•	Explore the effects that personal feelings can have on how people behave in situations where ethical issues are involved VCECD003			1
•	Explore the type of acts often considered right and those often considered wrong and the reasons why they are considered so VCECD002			1	1

	Intercultural Capability Victorian Curriculum / Capabilities / Intercultural Capability	Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home	Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story	Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship	Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies
	Cultural Practices
•	Identify what is familiar and what is different in the ways culturally diverse individuals and families live VCICCB001	1	1
	Cultural Diversity
•	Imagine and explain what their responses might be if they were placed in a different cultural situation or setting VCICCD004	1

	Personal and Social Capability Victorian Curriculum / Capabilities / Personal and Social Capability	Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home	Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story	Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship	Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies
	Self-Awareness and Management
•	Recognise that problems or challenges are a normal part of life and that there are actions that can be undertaken to manage problems VCPSCSE003			1
•	Identify their likes and dislikes, needs and wants, abilities and strengths VCPSCSE002			1	1
•	Develop a vocabulary and practise the expression of emotions to describe how they feel in different familiar situations VCPSCSE001			1
	Social Awareness and Management
•	Use appropriate language to describe what happens and how they feel when experiencing positive interactions or conflict VCPSCSO007			1
•	Practise the skills required to include others and make friends with peers, teachers and other adults VCPSCSO005			1
•	Name and practise basic skills required to work collaboratively with peers VCPSCSO006	2	1	1	1
•	Identify a range of groups to which they, their family and members of their class belong VCPSCSO004	1	1

	Science Understanding Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Science / Science Understanding	Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home	Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story	Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship	Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies
	Biological sciences
•	Living things have a variety of external features and live in different places where their basic needs, including food, water and shelter, are met VCSSU042	1
	Chemical sciences
•	Objects are made of materials that have observable properties VCSSU044	1

	Historical Knowledge Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / The Humanities / History / Historical Knowledge	Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home	Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story	Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship	Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies
	Personal histories
•	Differences in family structures of families and the role of family groups today, and what they have in common and how these have changed or remained the same over time VCHHK059		1
•	Who the people in their family are, describe where they were born and raised and how they are related to each other and how their stories are communicated and shared VCHHK058	1	3
	Community histories
•	How they, their family, friends and communities commemorate past events that are important to them VCHHK062	1	1

	Historical Concepts and Skills Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / The Humanities / History / Historical Concepts and Skills	Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home	Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story	Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship	Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies
	Historical sources as evidence
•	Identify perspectives about changes to daily life from people in the past or present VCHHC055	1	1
•	Identify the content features of primary sources when describing the significance of people, places or events VCHHC054	1	1

	Geographical Concepts and Skills Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / The Humanities / Geography / Geographical Concepts and Skills	Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home	Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story	Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship	Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies
	Place, space and interconnection
•	Describe and explain where places and activities are located VCGGC058	1
•	Identify how people are connected to different places VCGGC059	1
	Data and information
•	Collect and record geographical data and information from the field and other sources VCGGC060	1
•	Represent data and the location of places and their features by constructing tables, plans and labelled maps VCGGC061	1

	Geographical Knowledge Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / The Humanities / Geography / Geographical Knowledge	Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home Question-Based Investigations: A Place to Call Home	Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story Question-Based Investigations: Our Family Story	Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship Question-Based Investigations: Finding Friendship	Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies Question-Based Investigations: Healthy Minds and Bodies
	Places and our connections to them
•	Reasons why some places are special and some places are important to people and how they can be looked after VCGGK069	1
•	Representation of the location of places and their features on maps and models, including a globe, and the location of the major geographical divisions of the world in relation to Australia VCGGK063	1