Democracy, Community and Me

Victorian Curriculum Links

Year 3 and 4

Civics and Citizenship

Government and Democracy

  • VCCCG001: Identify features of government and law and describe key democratic values.

  • VCCCG002: Identify how and why decisions are made democratically in communities.

  • VCCCG003: Explain the roles of local government and some familiar services provided at the local level.

Laws and Citizenship

  • .VCCCL004: Explain how and why people make rules.

  • VCCCL005: Distinguish between rules and laws and discuss why rules and laws are important.

      Citizenship, Diversity and Identity

  • VCCCC006: Investigate why and how people participate within communities and cultural and social groups.

  • VCCCC007: Describe the different cultural, religious and/or social groups to which they and others in the community may belong.

Ethical Capability

Understanding Concepts

  • VCECU004: Explore the contested meaning of concepts including fairness and harm and how they can seem to differ in different situations.

  • VCECU005: Explore the extent to which particular acts might be regarded by different people as good or bad, right or wrong, better or worse, and explain why.

      Decision Making and Actions

  • VCECD008: Discuss the role of personal values and dispositions in ethical decision-making and actions.

English

Speaking and Listening

  • VCELA271: Understand that successful cooperation with others depends on shared use of social conventions, including turn-taking patterns, and forms of address that vary according to the degree of formality in social situations.

  • VCELY275: Listen to and contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas and negotiate in collaborative situations and use interaction skills, including active listening and clear, coherent communications.

  • VCELY276: Plan and deliver short presentations, providing some key details in logical sequence, using appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume.

  • VCELA304: Understand that social interactions influence the way people engage with ideas and respond to others.

  • VCELY307: Interpret ideas and information in spoken texts and listen for key points in order to carry out tasks and use information to share and extend ideas and use interaction skills.

  • VCELY308: Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations incorporating learned content and taking into account the particular audiences and purposes such as informative, persuasive and imaginative, including multimodal elements.