This Curiosity Collection provides a cross-curriculum exploration of ocean legends, mythical sea creatures, storytelling, geography, English, design, creativity, and inquiry.
Learners investigate mermaids, legendary sea monsters, magical adaptations, underwater kingdoms, enchanted treasures, and sea legends from different cultures while discovering how imagination is often inspired by the real ocean and the remarkable animals that live beneath the waves. They compare stories from around the world, explore the connections between fantasy and nature, and use creative thinking to design original creatures, magical objects, and imaginative underwater worlds.
The Collection is designed using inclusive learning principles, supporting diverse learning needs through self-paced exploration, clear instructions, flexible activity options, visual supports, and multiple ways for Wonder Seekers to engage, create, build, and reflect.
A Curiosity Collection includes multiple Wonder activities completed over several sessions.
Each activity introduces new ideas through exploration, investigation, and creative design, leading to a final project where Wonder Seekers combine what they have learned.
The Collection includes:
Each Curiosity Collection takes learners on a Wonder Learning Journey.
| Learning Area | Level, Code | Descriptor |
|---|---|---|
| English | Level 3, VC2E3LY01 | Use appropriate interaction skills to listen and respond to others, and contribute to discussions to share ideas and information. |
| English | Level 3, VC2E3LY02 | Read and view literary, informative and persuasive texts with fluency and expression, using phonic and word knowledge, and monitor meaning using strategies such as re-reading and self-correcting. |
| English | Level 3, VC2E3LY03 | Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning from texts. |
| English | Level 3, VC2E3LE01 | Discuss how language is used to describe the settings, characters and events in texts, and to develop plot and create atmosphere. |
| English | Level 3, VC2E3LE02 | Discuss similarities and differences between literary texts from diverse cultures, times and places. |
| English | Level 3, VC2E3LY06 | Create and edit written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, to express ideas and experiences. |
| English | Level 3, VC2E3LY07 | Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and/or multimodal presentations for audiences and purposes, using appropriate voice, pace, gesture and visual features. |
| Humanities – Geography | Level 3, VC2HG3K02 | Explain how people and environments are connected and how places can be cared for. |
| Humanities – Geography | Level 3, VC2HG3S01 | Locate, collect and record information and data from observations, maps, photographs and other sources. |
| Humanities – Geography | Level 3, VC2HG3S02 | Interpret information and data to identify spatial distributions, patterns and simple relationships, and draw conclusions. |
| The Arts – Visual Arts | Level 3-4, VC2AVA4C01 | Explore where, why and how visual arts are created and presented across cultures, times and places, and from First Nations Australians' perspectives. |
| The Arts – Visual Arts | Level 3-4, VC2AVA4C02 | Create artworks by experimenting with visual conventions, materials, techniques and processes to communicate ideas, observations and imagination. |
| Design and Technologies | Level 3-4, VC2TDE4C01 | Generate, communicate and evaluate design ideas for designed solutions that meet needs or opportunities. |
| Design and Technologies | Level 3-4, VC2TDE4C03 | Produce designed solutions using suitable materials, components, tools and equipment safely. |
| Critical and Creative Thinking | Level 3-4, VC2CCT3S02 | Generate and evaluate ideas, considering alternatives and possibilities to solve problems or create new ideas. |
| Critical and Creative Thinking | Level 3-4, VC2CCT3S03 | Organise, compare and represent ideas and information in different ways. |
| Intercultural Capability | Level 3-4, VC2IC3D01 | Compare how people, places and cultural practices are represented in stories and other texts from diverse cultures. |
| Intercultural Capability | Level 3-4, VC2IC3D02 | Recognise that cultural knowledge, traditions and stories are shared in different ways by different communities. |
| Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3–4, VC2PSC3D02 | Explain how listening to and valuing different perspectives can support positive interactions and learning. |
Our guided learning journey that moves from curiosity to understanding. Each step
builds naturally, so your child can explore, think, create, and grow at their own pace.
Get orientated and understand the challenge, goals and what you’ll create.
Ask questions, explore different ideas and perspectives and gather inspiration.
Dig deeper into your ideas, test possibilities and build understanding.
Create, make and experiment using the skills and ideas you’ve developed.
Look back on your process and results, celebrate growth and consider what’s next.
Explore legends, creatures, and mythical worlds while building skills
Discover how animals live, adapt, and survive while learning about the natural world.
Use gaming worlds to strengthen problem-solving, digital literacy, and thinking.
Discover the science behind speed while developing skills in physics, measurement, and data.
