| Learning Area | Level, Code | Descriptor |
|---|---|---|
| Civics & Citizenship | VC2HC10K02 | The processes through which government policy is shaped, developed and implemented, including the role of political parties, interest groups, the media and legislative processes. |
| Civics & Citizenship | VC2HC10K06 | The role of parliaments and the High Court of Australia in protecting rights under the Constitution, common law, and through federal and state/territory laws. |
| Civics & Citizenship | VC2HC10K09 | Individual and group participation in, and contribution to, civic life and global citizenship. |
| Civics & Citizenship | VC2HC10K10 | The challenges to and ways of sustaining a resilient democracy and a cohesive society in Australia and/or in our region or globally. |
| Civics & Citizenship | VC2HC10S01 | Develop and evaluate questions to investigate contemporary political, legal and civic issues. |
| Civics & Citizenship | VC2HC10S02 | Evaluate information, data, perspectives and ideas from a range of sources on contemporary issues. |
| Civics & Citizenship | VC2HC10S04 | Evaluate how the principles of justice (fairness, equality and access) are achieved through legal institutions and processes. |
| Civics & Citizenship | VC2HC10S08 | Construct evidence-based arguments using civics and citizenship knowledge, concepts and different perspectives, and determine the most effective method of communication. |
| Economics & Business | VC2HE10K02 | The ways government and the Reserve Bank of Australia intervene in the economy to improve economic performance and living standards. |
| Economics & Business | VC2HE8K09 | The Australian taxation system and how taxation revenue is used. |
| Economics & Business | VC2HE10S01 | Develop and modify questions suitable for investigation of contemporary economic, business, work or financial issues. |
| Economics & Business | VC2HE10S02 | Locate, select, organise and analyse relevant information and data from a range of sources. |
| Economics & Business | VC2HE10S05 | Develop and evaluate a response to an economic and business issue, using cost-benefit analysis or criteria. |
| Economics & Business | VC2HE10S07 | Explain and present arguments about economics and business concepts and issues using subject-specific terminology, with reference to sources. |
| English | VC2E10LA01 | Understand how language can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and how it can empower or disempower people. |
| English | VC2E10LA02 | Understand that language used to evaluate and substantiate, implicitly or explicitly, reveals views and values. |
| English | VC2E10LY04 | Analyse and evaluate how people, places, events and concepts are represented in texts and reflect contexts. |
| English | VC2E10LY05 | Analyse and evaluate how language features are used to implicitly and explicitly represent values, beliefs and attitudes. |
| English | VC2E10LY07 | Integrate comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and interpret complex and abstract ideas. |
| English | VC2E10LY08 | Create different types of texts, written and spoken, that reflect on challenging and complex issues, including texts that combine specific print, multimodal and/or digital elements, for a range of purposes and in deliberate consideration of an audience. |
| Critical & Creative Thinking | VC2CC10Q01 | The construction and adaptation of questions to suit different contexts. |
| Critical & Creative Thinking | VC2CC10Q03 | Strategies for generating new ideas and possibilities including identifying links and patterns across multiple information sources and perspectives. |
| Critical & Creative Thinking | VC2CC10R01 | Ways to analyse and improve the structure, clarity, consistency and coherence of a conclusion and its justification in different contexts. |
| Critical & Creative Thinking | VC2CC10R02 | Ways to analyse and evaluate claims and grounds for claims for the qualities of accuracy, precision, depth or breadth when reasoning, and ways to identify what qualities are required in different contexts. |
| Critical & Creative Thinking | VC2CC10R04 | When and how criteria are refined to improve clarity and support analysis and evaluation, including of competing claims, when reasoning. |
| Ethical Capability | VC2CE10U01 | The distinction between ethical and legal, and the distinction, connection and/or tension between ethical concepts such as trust and integrity, or individual happiness and the common good, in different contexts. |
| Ethical Capability | VC2CE10U02 | How and why ethical perspectives can be challenged and changed, such as increasing cultural diversity challenging a conception of shared expectations, and factors that support negotiating a shared ethical perspective such as respect for human rights. |
| Ethical Capability | VC2CE10D01 | How connections, distinctions and tensions between ethical concepts and between ethical perspectives are used to identify and analyse ethical issues, including their ethical significance, and how they are used to analyse responses to ethical issues, including their ethical significance. |
| Ethical Capability | VC2CE10D02 | How more than one of the consequences framework, duties framework or virtues framework can be used to guide decision-making in response to an ethical issue, and similarities and differences between these and alternative ethical frameworks. |
| Personal & Social Capability | VC2CP10O01 | How divergent values and beliefs contribute to different perspectives on social issues; the benefits and challenges arising from different perspectives. |
| Personal & Social Capability | VC2CP10O02 | Barriers to and enablers of the acceptance of diversity, and how to evaluate strategies for being respectful of diversity; strategies for managing competing human rights and responsibilities. |
| Personal & Social Capability | VC2CP10O03 | Personal, social and cultural factors that influence the ability to experience respectful personal and group relationships; the rights and responsibilities of individuals in relationships. |
| Personal & Social Capability | VC2CP10S05 | The significance of individual responsibility and adaptability in decision-making when completing challenging tasks and planning for the future. |
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Ask questions, explore different ideas and perspectives and gather inspiration.
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Create, make and experiment using the skills and ideas you’ve developed.
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