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

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Vic Curriculum Map

Year 1 · Question Based Investigations

	Health and Physical Education Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Health and Physical Education	Question-Based Investigations: Playing in the Park Question-Based Investigations: Playing in the Park	Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders	Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now	Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations
	Personal, Social and Community Health
•	Identify and explore natural and built environments in the local community where physical activity can take place VCHPEP079	1
•	Describe ways to include others to make them feel that they belong VCHPEP075	1			1
•	Recognise situations and opportunities to promote their own health, safety and wellbeing VCHPEP074	1
•	Describe physical and social changes that occur as children grow older and discuss how family and community acknowledge these VCHPEP072				1

	Design and Technologies Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Technologies / Design and Technologies	Question-Based Investigations: Playing in the Park Question-Based Investigations: Playing in the Park	Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders	Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now	Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations
	Technologies and Society
•	Identify how people create familiar designed solutions and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs VCDSTS013	1
	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
•	Visualise, generate, and communicate design ideas through describing, drawing and modelling VCDSCD019	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: Playing in the Park Question-Based Investigations: Playing in the Park	Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders	Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now	Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations
	Questions and Possibilities
•	Make simple modifications to known ideas and routine solutions to generate some different ideas and possibilities VCCCTQ003	1
•	Consider personal reactions to situations or problems and how these reactions may influence thinking VCCCTQ002			1
•	Identify, describe and use different kinds of question stems to gather information and ideas VCCCTQ001	1	1	1	1
	Reasoning
•	Consider how reasons and examples are used to support a point of view and illustrate meaning VCCCTR006			1
	Meta-Cognition
•	Investigate ways to problem-solve, using egocentric and experiential language VCCCTM009	1

	Intercultural Capability Victorian Curriculum / Capabilities / Intercultural Capability	Question-Based Investigations: Playing in the Park Question-Based Investigations: Playing in the Park	Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders	Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now	Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations
	Cultural Practices
•	Describe their experiences of intercultural encounters in which they have been involved VCICCB002				1
•	Identify what is familiar and what is different in the ways culturally diverse individuals and families live VCICCB001				1
	Cultural Diversity
•	Identify and discuss cultural diversity in the school and/or community VCICCD003				1
•	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: Playing in the Park Question-Based Investigations: Playing in the Park	Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders	Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now	Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations
	Social Awareness and Management
•	Use basic skills required for participation in group tasks and respond to simple questions about their contribution to group tasks VCPSCSO014	1	1	1	1
•	Identify how families can have a range of relationships VCPSCSO011				1
•	Listen to others’ ideas, and recognise that others may see things differently VCPSCSO012			1	1

	Science Understanding Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Science / Science Understanding	Question-Based Investigations: Playing in the Park Question-Based Investigations: Playing in the Park	Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders	Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now	Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations
	Science as a human endeavour
•	People use science in their daily lives VCSSU041		1
	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

	Science Inquiry Skills Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Science / Science Inquiry Skills	Question-Based Investigations: Playing in the Park Question-Based Investigations: Playing in the Park	Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders	Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now	Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations
	Questioning and predicting
•	Respond to and pose questions, and make predictions about familiar objects and events VCSIS050		1
	Planning and conducting
•	Participate in guided investigations, including making observations using the senses, to explore and answer questions VCSIS051		1
	Recording and processing
•	Use informal measurements in the collection and recording of observations VCSIS052		1
•	Use a range of methods, including drawings and provided tables, to sort information VCSIS053		1
	Analysing and evaluating
•	Compare observations and predictions with those of others VCSIS054		1
	Communicating
•	Represent and communicate observations and ideas about changes in objects and events in a variety of ways VCSIS055		1

	Historical Knowledge Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / The Humanities / History / Historical Knowledge	Question-Based Investigations: Playing in the Park Question-Based Investigations: Playing in the Park	Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders	Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now	Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations
	Personal histories
•	How the present, past and future are signified by terms indicating and describing time VCHHK060			1	1
•	Differences and similarities between students' daily lives and perspectives of life during their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods, including family traditions, leisure time and communications VCHHK061			1
	Community histories
•	The effect of changing technology on people’s lives and their perspectives on the significance of that change VCHHK065			1
•	How they, their family, friends and communities commemorate past events that are important to them VCHHK062				1

	Historical Concepts and Skills Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / The Humanities / History / Historical Concepts and Skills	Question-Based Investigations: Playing in the Park Question-Based Investigations: Playing in the Park	Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders	Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now	Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations
	Chronology
•	Sequence significant events about personal and family history to create a chronological narrative VCHHC053			1
	Historical sources as evidence
•	Identify perspectives about changes to daily life from people in the past or present VCHHC055			1
•	Identify the content features of primary sources when describing the significance of people, places or events VCHHC054			1
	Continuity and change
•	Identify examples of continuity and change in family life and in the local area by comparing past and present VCHHC056			1

	Geographical Concepts and Skills Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / The Humanities / Geography / Geographical Concepts and Skills	Question-Based Investigations: Playing in the Park Question-Based Investigations: Playing in the Park	Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders	Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now	Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations
	Place, space and interconnection
•	Identify how people are connected to different places VCGGC059	1
•	Identify and describe the features of places at a local scale and how they change, recognising that people describe the features of places differently VCGGC057	1	1
	Data and information
•	Collect and record geographical data and information from the field and other sources VCGGC060	1

	Geographical Knowledge Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / The Humanities / Geography / Geographical Knowledge	Question-Based Investigations: Playing in the Park Question-Based Investigations: Playing in the Park	Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders Question-Based Investigations: Hidden Wonders	Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now Question-Based Investigations: Then and Now	Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations Question-Based Investigations: Cultural Celebrations
	Places and our connections to them
•	Activities in the local place and reasons for their location, and the influence of purpose, distance and accessibility on the frequency with which people visit places VCGGK070	1
•	Natural, managed and constructed features of places, their location and how they change VCGGK068	1	1
•	Reasons why some places are special and some places are important to people and how they can be looked after VCGGK069	1	1
•	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Country/Place on which the school is located and why Country/Place is important to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and the ways in which they maintain special connections to particular Country/Place VCGGK066	1