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Pulling Strings - Level 3 Sample Unit

Victorian Essential Learning Standards

Pulling strings can be used to assess a range of Victorian Essential Learning Standards.

The table below is an example of how this unit might be used to assess some Level 3 standards.

Strand Domain Dimension Key elements of standards

Physical, Personal and Social Learning

Interpersonal Development

Building social relationships

… sharing ideas and materials, offering assistance, giving appropriate feedback and acknowledging individual difference.

Physical, Personal and Social Learning

Interpersonal Development

Working in teams

… cooperate with others in teams for agreed purposes, taking roles and following guidelines established within the task.

… evaluate their own contribution and team’s progress towards the achievement of agreed goals.

Discipline-based Learning

 

English Reading

… use several strategies to locate, select and record key information from texts.

Discipline-based Learning

 

English

Writing

… write narratives which include characters, setting and plot.

… combine verbal and visual elements in the texts they produce.

Discipline-based Learning

 

English

Speaking and listening

… project their voice adequately for an audience, use appropriate spoken language features, and modify spoken texts to clarify meaning and information.

Discipline-based Learning

 

The Arts Creating and making

… create and present works in a range of arts forms that communicate experiences, ideas, concepts, observations and feelings.

Discipline-based Learning

 

The Arts

Exploring and responding

… describe key features of arts works from their own and other cultures…

Interdisciplinary Learning

 

Design, Creativity and Technology Investigating and designing

… generate ideas based on a design brief, demonstrating that designs may need to meet a range of different requirements.

Interdisciplinary Learning

 

Design, Creativity and Technology

Producing

… use their list of steps …

… use a variety of simple techniques/processes and a range of materials/ingredients to make products …

Interdisciplinary Learning

 

Design, Creativity and Technology

Analysing and evaluating

… describe what they consider to be the strengths and drawbacks of their design, product or simple system.

… consider how well a product or simple system functions and/or how well it meets the intended purpose.

Interdisciplinary Learning

 

Information and Communications Technology ICT for communicating

… use a recommended search engine and limited key words to locate information from websites.

Interdisciplinary Learning

 

Thinking Processes Reasoning, processing and inquiry

… collect information from a range of sources to answer their own and others’ questions.

Interdisciplinary Learning

 

Thinking Processes

Creativity

… apply creative ideas in practical ways and test the possibilities of ideas they generate.

… use open-ended questioning and integrate available information to explore ideas.

For further advice see the Assessment section.


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