AC9AMAFE01 Foundation The Arts

This Content Descriptor from Foundation The Arts provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

explore how and why the arts are important for people and communities

Elaborations

• 1 exploring how facial expressions, gestures and other ways of moving, and using voice or language, can communicate emotions and feelings in arts works; for example, characters in portraits, cartoons, songs, chants or dances from different times and cultures
• 2 identifying and/or learning social or cultural dances that have meaning for people and communities, taking care to observe relevant protocols; for example, working with community representatives or using accredited resources
• 3 using dramatic play to explore ideas or understandings they observe or perceive in a text or image (print or screen); for example, exploring questions such as “What is happening?”, “What will happen next?”
• 4 identifying arts works and experiences in their lives, such as songs they sing, dances or drama they watch or perform, animations, computer games or music videos, public art, 2D, 3D or screen-based works they encounter at school or in community settings, and sharing ideas and feelings about the works with peers and teachers
• 5 singing songs that are used for celebrations, such as school songs, anthems, sports teams’ songs, birthday songs and songs that help teach content or concepts from other learning areas, such as health messages
• 6 exploring how illustrations/images in a text (fiction or non-fiction, print or screen) help to communicate narrative or information about characters or settings and/or mood
• 7 listening to First Nations Australians talk about the importance of the arts for connecting to people, culture and Country/Place; for example, using resources created or co-created by First Nations Australians