Year 3 The Arts — AC v9
All 25 content descriptions for Year 3 The Arts in the Australian Curriculum Version 9, grouped by strand — each one links to its own page, and TeachKoala can turn any of them into a complete lesson (your first is free).
Achievement standard (what coverage means)
- •They perform their dance in informal settings.
- •Students use media languages, and media technologies and production processes to construct representations in media arts works.
- •They collaborate to improvise and/or devise drama that communicates ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
- •They perform their work in informal settings.
- •By the end of Year 4, students describe the use of visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials in artworks they create and/or experience.
- •Students use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
- •They describe where, why and/or how drama is created and/or performed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts.
- •They describe where, why and/or how dance is choreographed and/or performed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts.
- •They share their work in informal settings using responsible media practice.
- •They describe where, why and/or how music is composed and/or performed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts.
- •They demonstrate fundamental movement skills and safe dance practice.
- •By the end of Year 4, students describe use of the elements of dance in dance they experience, create and/or perform.
- •By the end of Year 4, students describe the use of elements of music in music they compose, perform and/or experience.
- •Students use the elements of dance to structure dance sequences that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
- •By the end of Year 4, students describe the use of media languages and media technologies to construct representations in media arts works they experience and/or produce.
- •By the end of Year 4, students describe use of selected elements of drama in drama they experience, create and/or perform.
- •They sing and play music they have learnt and/or composed in informal settings.
- •They describe where, why and/or how visual artists create and/or display artworks across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts.
- •Students use selected elements of drama when creating drama and/or performing.
- •They combine the elements of music to compose music that communicates ideas.
- •They describe where, why and/or how media arts works are created and/or distributed across cultures, times, places, and/or other contexts.
- •Students demonstrate listening skills when performing and composing.
- •They share or display their artworks and/or visual arts practice in informal settings.
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The Year 3 The Arts planning scaffold
A one-page planning sheet with the official achievement standard, every content description grouped by strand, and space for your assessment and week-by-week sequence. Print it and plan on paper, or use it as the skeleton for a unit.
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