VELS

=Physical, Personal and Social Learning = Domain: Interpersonal Development Dimension: Working in Teams Standards: Students cooperate with others in teams for agreed purposes, taking roles and following guidelines established within the task. They describe and evaluate their own contribution and the team’s progress towards the achievement of agreed goals.

Domain: Civics and Citizenship Dimension: Community Engagement Standards: Students describe some of the roles and purposes of groups in the community. They work with other students to identify a local issue and plan possible actions to achieve a desired outcome. They participate in activities to protect and care for the natural and built environment.

=Discipline Based Learning = Domain: English Dimension: Standards:

Domain: Science Dimension: Science Knowledge and Understanding Standards: Students describe natural physical and biological conditions, and human influences in the environment, which affect the survival of living things.

=Interdisciplinary Learning = Domain: Information and Communications Technology <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dimension: ICT for Visual Thinking <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Standards: Students retrieve their saved visualising thinking strategies and edit them for use in new, but similar situations. They explain how these strategies can be used for different problems or situations.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dimension: ICT for Creating <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Standards:Students follow simple plans and use tools and a range of data types to create information products designed to inform, persuade, entertain or educate particular audiences. With minimal assistance, students use ICT tools to capture and save images. They use simple editing functions to manipulate the images for use in their products.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dimension: ICT for Communicating <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Standards:Students locate information on an intranet, and use a recommended search engine and limited key words to locate information from websites. They develop and apply simple criteria to evaluate the value of the located information.