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

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Vic Curriculum Map

Year 2 · Question Based Investigations

	Health and Physical Education Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Health and Physical Education	Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys	Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place	Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions	Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
	Personal, Social and Community Health
•	Examine health messages and how they relate to health decisions and behaviours VCHPEP077			1
•	Describe ways to include others to make them feel that they belong VCHPEP075	1
•	Identify and practise emotional responses that account for own and others’ feelings VCHPEP076			1
•	Recognise situations and opportunities to promote their own health, safety and wellbeing VCHPEP074			1
•	Practise strategies they can use when they need help with a task, problem or situation at home and/or at school VCHPEP073			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: Together Through Toys Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys	Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place	Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions	Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
	Technologies and Society
•	Identify how people create familiar designed solutions and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs VCDSTS013	1			1
	Technologies Contexts
•	Explore the characteristics and properties of materials and components that are used to create designed solutions VCDSTC017	1			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: Together Through Toys Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys	Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place	Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions	Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
	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	1
•	Identify, describe and use different kinds of question stems to gather information and ideas VCCCTQ001	1	1	1	1
	Meta-Cognition
•	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: Together Through Toys Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys	Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place	Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions	Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
	Understanding Concepts
•	Explore the meaning of right and wrong, good and bad, as concepts concerned with the outcomes of acts VCECU001			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

Intercultural Capability

Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys

Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place

Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions

Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Cultural Diversity

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Identify and discuss cultural diversity in the school and/or community VCICCD003

	Personal and Social Capability Victorian Curriculum / Capabilities / Personal and Social Capability	Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys	Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place	Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions	Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
	Self-Awareness and Management
•	Extend their vocabulary through which to recognise and describe emotions and when, how and with whom it is appropriate to share emotions VCPSCSE008			1
	Social Awareness and Management
•	Recognise that conflict occurs and distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate ways to deal with conflict VCPSCSO015			1
•	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
•	Describe ways of making and keeping friends, including how actions and words can help or hurt others, and the effects of modifying their behaviour VCPSCSO013			1
•	Listen to others’ ideas, and recognise that others may see things differently VCPSCSO012			1

	Science Understanding Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Science / Science Understanding	Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys	Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place	Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions	Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
	Science as a human endeavour
•	People use science in their daily lives VCSSU041	1			1
	Biological sciences
•	Living things grow, change and have offspring similar to themselves VCSSU043			1
	Chemical sciences
•	Everyday materials can be physically changed or combined with other materials in a variety of ways for particular purposes VCSSU045	1			1
	Earth and space sciences
•	Earth’s resources are used in a variety of ways VCSSU047				1

Science Inquiry Skills

Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys

Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place

Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions

Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Recording and processing

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Use informal measurements in the collection and recording of observations VCSIS052

	Historical Knowledge Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / The Humanities / History / Historical Knowledge	Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys	Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place	Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions	Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
	Personal histories
•	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
•	The significance today of an historical site of cultural or spiritual importance VCHHK064		1
•	The history of a significant person, building, site or part of the natural environment in the local community and what it reveals about the past VCHHK063		1

	Historical Concepts and Skills Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / The Humanities / History / Historical Concepts and Skills	Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys	Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place	Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions	Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
	Historical sources as evidence
•	Identify perspectives about changes to daily life from people in the past or present VCHHC055	1
	Historical significance
•	Identify the significance of a person and/or place in the local community VCHHC057		1

	Geographical Concepts and Skills Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / The Humanities / Geography / Geographical Concepts and Skills	Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys	Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place	Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions	Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
	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
•	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

	Geographical Knowledge Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / The Humanities / Geography / Geographical Knowledge	Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys	Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place	Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions	Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
	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
•	Reasons why some places are special and some places are important to people and how they can be looked after VCGGK069		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
•	Definition of places as parts of the Earth’s surface that have been given meaning by people, and how places can be defined at a variety of scales VCGGK064		1
•	Connections of people in Australia to other places in Australia and across the world VCGGK065		1