Minecraft

Curriculum Audit

• Level 4
  • Digital Technologies
    • Data and Information
      • Collect, access and present different types of data using simple software to create information and solve problems (VCDTDI021)
      • Individually and with others, plan, create and communicate ideas and information safely, applying agreed ethical and social protocols (VCDTDI022)
  • Mathematics
    • Measurement and Geometry
      • Using Units of Measurement
        • Compare the areas of regular and irregular shapes by informal means (VCMMG169)
        • Compare and describe two dimensional shapes that result from combining and splitting common shapes, with and without the use of digital technologies (VCMMG170)
        • Explain and compare the geometric properties of two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects (VCMMG171)
      • Shape
        • Compare the areas of regular and irregular shapes by informal means (VCMMG169)
      • Location and transformation
        • Create symmetrical patterns, pictures and shapes with and without digital technologies (VCMMG173)
  • Science
    • Science Inquiry Skills
      • Questioning and predicting
        • Create symmetrical patterns, pictures and shapes with and without digital technologies (VCMMG173)
    • Science Understanding
      • Science as a Human Endeavour
        • Science knowledge helps people to understand the effects of their actions (VCSSU056)
      • Earth and space sciences
        • Earth's surface changes over time as a result of natural processes and human activity (VCSSU062)
• Level 5
  • Critical and Creative Thinking
    • Meta-cognition
      • Investigate how ideas and problems can be disaggregated into smaller elements or ideas, how criteria can be used to identify gaps in existing knowledge, and assess and test ideas and proposals (VCCCTM031)
    • Reasoning
      • Examine the difference between valid and sound arguments and between inductive and deductive reasoning, and their degrees of certainty (VCCCTR027)
  • Digital Technologies
    • Data and Information
      • Plan, create and communicate ideas, information and online collaborative projects, applying agreed ethical, social and technical protocols (VCDTDI029)
    • Digital Systems
      • Examine the main components of common digital systems, and how such digital systems may connect together to form networks to transmit data (VCDTDS026)
  • Mathematics
    • Measurement and Geometry
      • Shape
        • Connect three-dimensional objects with their nets and other two-dimensional representations (VCMMG198)
      • Location and transformation
        • Apply the enlargement transformation to familiar two dimensional shapes and explore the properties of the resulting image compared with the original (VCMMG201)
  • Science
    • Science Inquiry Skills
      • Communicating
        • Communicate ideas and processes using evidence to develop explanations of events and phenomena and to identify simple cause-and-effect relationships (VCSIS088)
      • Questioning and predicting
        • With guidance, pose questions to clarify practical problems or inform a scientific investigation, and predict what the findings of an investigation might be based on previous experiences or general rules (VCSIS082)
    • Science Understanding
      • Biological sciences
        • The growth and survival of living things are affected by the physical conditions of their environment (VCSSU075)
      • Science as a Human Endeavour
        • Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to inform personal and community decisions and to solve problems that directly affect people's lives (VCSSU073)
      • Earth and space sciences
        • Sudden geological changes or extreme weather conditions can affect Earth's surface (VCSSU079)
• Level 6
  • Critical and Creative Thinking
    • Meta-cognition
      • Investigate how ideas and problems can be disaggregated into smaller elements or ideas, how criteria can be used to identify gaps in existing knowledge, and assess and test ideas and proposals (VCCCTM031)
    • Reasoning
      • Examine the difference between valid and sound arguments and between inductive and deductive reasoning, and their degrees of certainty (VCCCTR027)
  • Digital Technologies
    • Data and Information
      • Plan, create and communicate ideas, information and online collaborative projects, applying agreed ethical, social and technical protocols (VCDTDI029)
    • Digital Systems
      • Examine the main components of common digital systems, and how such digital systems may connect together to form networks to transmit data (VCDTDS026)
  • Mathematics
    • Measurement and Geometry
      • Shape
        • Construct simple prisms and pyramids (VCMMG228)
      • Location and transformation
        • Investigate the effect of combinations of transformations on simple and composite shapes, including creating tessellations, with and without the use of digital technologies (VCMMG229)
  • Science
    • Science Inquiry Skills
      • Communicating
        • Communicate ideas and processes using evidence to develop explanations of events and phenomena and to identify simple cause-and-effect relationships (VCSIS088)
      • Questioning and predicting
        • With guidance, pose questions to clarify practical problems or inform a scientific investigation, and predict what the findings of an investigation might be based on previous experiences or general rules (VCSIS082)
    • Science Understanding
      • Biological sciences
        • The growth and survival of living things are affected by the physical conditions of their environment (VCSSU075)
      • Science as a Human Endeavour
        • Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to inform personal and community decisions and to solve problems that directly affect people's lives (VCSSU073)
      • Earth and space sciences
        • Sudden geological changes or extreme weather conditions can affect Earth's surface (VCSSU079)
• Level 7
  • Digital Technologies
    • Data and Information
      • Manage, create and communicate interactive ideas, information and projects collaboratively online, taking safety and social contexts into account (VCDTDI039)
  • Mathematics
    • Measurement and Geometry
      • Shape
        • Draw different views of prisms and solids formed from combinations of prisms (VCMMG260)
  • Science
    • Science Inquiry Skills
      • Planning and conducting
        • Collaboratively and individually plan and conduct a range of investigation types, including fieldwork and experiments, ensuring safety and ethical guidelines are followed (VCSIS108)
    • Science Understanding
      • Biological sciences
        • Interactions between organisms can be described in terms of food chains and food webs and can be affected by human activity (VCSSU093)
      • Science as a Human Endeavour
        • Investigate the effect of combinations of transformations on simple and composite shapes, including creating tessellations, with and without the use of digital technologies (VCMMG229)
      • Earth and space sciences
        • Some of Earth's resources are renewable, but others are non-renewable (VCSSU100)
        • Water is an important resource that cycles through the environment (VCSSU101)
        • Sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks contain minerals and are formed by processes that occur within Earth over a variety of timescales (VCSSU102)