This Curiosity Collection provides a cross-curriculum exploration of rocks, minerals, gems, and the changing Earth through science, geography, investigation, and creative design.
Learners explore how rocks form, how the Earth changes over time, and how natural materials such as crystals and gems develop underground. The collection builds understanding of Earth science while developing skills in observation, questioning, recording, comparing, and creative communication.
Throughout the collection, learners investigate rock types, the rock cycle, heat and pressure inside the Earth, mineral formation, famous gemstones, where minerals are found, and how scientists identify rocks and minerals.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Science | Level 4, VCSSU058 | Earth’s surface changes over time as a result of natural processes, including weathering, erosion and the movement of the Earth’s crust. |
| Science | Level 4, VCSSU059 | Natural materials have observable properties and can be classified and compared based on these properties. |
| Science Inquiry Skills | Level 4, VCSIS064 | With guidance, plan and conduct investigations to find answers to questions, including making observations and recording data. |
| Science Inquiry Skills | Level 4, VCSIS065 | Represent and communicate ideas and findings using diagrams, tables, labelled drawings, and short explanations. |
| Science Inquiry Skills | Level 4, VCSIS066 | Compare results with predictions, suggest explanations for findings, and reflect on investigations. |
| English | Level 4, VCELY269 | Plan, draft and publish imaginative and informative texts containing key information and supporting details for a familiar audience. |
| English | Level 4, VCELY276 | Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning from texts. |
| English | Level 4, VCELY277 | Use speaking and listening skills to share ideas, information, and explanations. |
| Mathematics | Level 4, VCMSP166 | Collect, organise and represent data to answer questions, including using tables, picture graphs and column graphs. |
| Mathematics | Level 4, VCMMG165 | Use scaled instruments to measure and compare length, mass, capacity, and temperature. |
| Humanities | Level 4, VCHHK080 | Describe how people use and manage natural resources and how this affects environments and communities. |
| Geography | Level 4, VCGGK082 | Identify and describe the characteristics of places in different locations at a range of scales. |
| Geography | Level 4, VCGGK083 | Describe how people use natural resources and how this affects environments. |
| Design and Technologies | Level 4, VCDSTC025 | Generate, develop and communicate design ideas and plans using labelled drawings, models and simple digital tools. |
| Design and Technologies | Level 4, VCDSTS026 | Investigate how forces and materials can be used to create designed solutions. |
| Digital Technologies | Level 4, VCDTDI021 | Acquire, store and organise data and use digital tools to represent information in different ways. |
| The Arts – Visual Arts | Level 4, VCAVAE025 | Create visual artworks that express ideas using imagination, observation and experience. |
| The Arts – Visual Arts | Level 4, VCAVAR026 | Explore ideas and artworks from different cultures, times, and places. |
| Health & Physical Education | Level 4, VCHPEP093 | Practise personal and social skills to interact positively with others and to manage learning, focus and wellbeing. |
| Critical & Creative Thinking | Level 4, VCCCTQ012 | Investigate different ways of sorting information and extending ideas to generate imaginative solutions. |
| Critical & Creative Thinking | Level 4, VCCCTR013 | Use creative thinking to explore possibilities and generate ideas. |
| Ethical Capability | Level 4, VCECU006 | Explore how people’s actions affect the environment and the use of natural resources. |
| Intercultural Capability | Level 4, VCICCD008 | Identify how cultural practices influence the way people use and value natural environments and materials. |
| Personal & Social Capability | Level 4, VCPSCSE017 | Identify personal strengths and areas for improvement in learning and work towards goals with increasing independence. |
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.
