Activity: Outdoor Learning – Developing Outdoor Learning Guidelines – Years F to 6

English

Mathematics

Visual Arts

Geography

Foundation

Explore the different contribution of words and images to meaning in stories and informative texts (ACELA1786)

Sort and classify familiar objects and explain the basis for these classifications. Copy, continue and create patterns with objects and drawings (ACMNA005)

Explore ideas, experiences, observations and imagination to create visual artworks and design, including considering ideas in artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists (ACAVAM106)

Use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make artworks (ACAVAM107)

Create and display artworks to communicate ideas to an audience (ACAVAM108)

Year 1

Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams (ACELY1661)

Choose simple questions and gather responses and make simple inferences (ACMSP262)

Represent data with objects and drawings where one object or drawing represents one data value. Describe the displays (ACMSP263)

Year 2

Understand that spoken, visual and written forms of language are different modes of communication with different features and their use varies according to the audience, purpose, context and cultural background (ACELA1460)

Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (ACELY1671)

Collect, check and classify data (ACMSP049)

Create displays of data using lists, table and picture graphs and interpret them (ACMSP050)

Year 3

Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences) (ACELA1478)

Create and interpret simple grid maps to show position and pathways (ACMMG065)

Use materials, techniques and processes to explore visual conventions when making artworks (ACAVAM111)

Year 4

Understand how texts vary in complexity and technicality depending on the approach to the topic, the purpose and the intended audience (ACELA1490)

Use simple scales, legends and directions to interpret information contained in basic maps (ACMMG090)

Year 5

Understand the use of vocabulary to express greater precision of meaning, and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts (ACELA1512)

Use a grid reference system to describe locations. Describe routes using landmarks and directional language (ACMMG113)

Develop and apply techniques and processes when making their artworks (ACAVAM115)

Year 6

Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion (ACELA1525)

Organise and represent data in a range of formats including tables, graphs and large- and small-scale maps, using discipline-appropriate conventions (ACHASSI124)