Year 6 The Arts — AC v9
All 25 content descriptions for Year 6 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 present documentation and artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives or meaning in informal and/or formal settings.
- •They describe how artworks created across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
- •By the end of Year 6, students explain the ways that visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials are used in artworks they create and/or experience.
- •By the end of Year 6, students explain how elements of music are manipulated in music they compose, perform and/or experience.
- •They demonstrate safe dance practice and use of technical, and expressive skills.
- •Students demonstrate listening and aural skills when composing and performing.
- •They describe how music composed and/or performed across contexts, cultures, times and/or places communicates ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
- •They describe how music is used to continue and revitalise cultures.
- •Students use media languages, and media technologies and production processes to construct representations in media arts works for specific purposes and audiences.
- •They perform their drama in informal and/or formal settings.
- •They describe how media arts works created across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
- •They select and use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
- •They describe how media arts are used to continue and revitalise cultures.
- •They present their work in informal and/or formal settings using responsible media practice.
- •Students develop and document ideas for their own artworks.
- •They use elements of music and compositional devices to compose music that communicates ideas, and when practising music for a performance.
- •Students use the elements of dance and/or choreographic devices to choreograph dances that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
- •They describe how visual arts are used to continue and revitalise cultures.
- •They describe how dance from across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts communicates ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
- •They perform dances in informal and/or formal settings.
- •They describe how dance is used to continue and revitalise cultures.
- •They describe how drama is used to continue and revitalise cultures.
- •By the end of Year 6, students explain how the elements of drama are used in drama they create, perform and/or experience.
- •They describe how drama created and/or performed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts communicates ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
- •They notate, document and/or record the music they compose.
- •They perform music in formal and/or informal settings.
- •They improvise and/or devise drama and/or interpret scripts.
- •By the end of Year 6, students explain how media languages and media technologies are used in media arts works they construct and/or experience.
- •Students work collaboratively as they combine elements of drama to shape and sustain dramatic action.
- •By the end of Year 6, students explain how the elements of dance are used in dance that they choreograph, perform and/or experience.
- AC9AVA6E01explore ways that visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials are combined to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in visual arts across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts
- AC9AVA6E02explore ways that First Nations Australians use visual arts to continue and revitalise cultures
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The Year 6 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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