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Year 9 The Arts — AC v9

All 35 content descriptions for Year 9 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 their work to an audience.
  • They demonstrate appropriate vocal and/or instrumental techniques and performance skills when performing music for audiences.
  • They evaluate how music and/or performances in a range of styles and/or from across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
  • They use knowledge of visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks that represent and/or communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
  • They notate, document and/or record their music.
  • They evaluate how visual arts are used to celebrate and challenge perspectives of Australian identity.
  • They use responsible media practice and production processes to create media arts works in a range of genres/styles and/or forms, for specific audiences.
  • They evaluate how and why artists from across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials in their visual arts practice and/or artworks to represent and/or challenge ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
  • They evaluate how dance is used to celebrate and challenge perspectives of Australian identity.
  • They employ technical and expressive skills and genre- or style-specific techniques to enhance communication of ideas, perspectives and/or meaning when performing dance for audiences.
  • They use performance skills relevant to style and/or form to sustain belief, roles and characters in performances of improvised, devised and/or scripted drama for audiences.
  • They evaluate how media arts are used to celebrate and challenge perspectives of Australian identity.
  • Students work individually and/or collaboratively to shape and manipulate use of the elements of drama, conventions and/or dramatic structures to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
  • Students draw on inspiration from multiple sources to generate and develop ideas for artworks.
  • They curate and present exhibitions of their own and or/others’ artworks and visual arts practice to engage audiences.
  • They demonstrate safe dance practice when choreographing and performing dance.
  • By the end of Year 10, students analyse how and why visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials are manipulated in artworks they create and/or experience.
  • Students manipulate elements of music and use compositional devices to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meanings in compositions in selected style/s, form/s and/or using selected instrumentation.
  • Students demonstrate listening and aural skills relevant to the styles and/or contexts in which they are working.
  • By the end of Year 10, students analyse ways composers and/or performers use the elements of music and compositional devices to engage audiences.
  • They evaluate how and why media artists across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts use media arts concepts to represent and/or challenge ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
  • They apply knowledge of styles and/or forms when performing their own and/or others’ music.
  • By the end of Year 10, students analyse how and why the elements of drama, performance skills and/or conventions are manipulated in drama they create, perform and/or experience.
  • They document and reflect on their own visual arts practice.
  • They evaluate how drama in a range of styles and/or from a range of contexts communicates ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
  • Students select and manipulate the elements of dance, choreographic devices and/or structure to choreograph dances.
  • They evaluate how dance works and/or performances in a range of styles and/or from across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
  • They evaluate how music is used to celebrate and challenge perspectives of Australian identity.
  • They plan where and how they could distribute their work and the relationships they could develop with their audiences, using responsible media practice.
  • By the end of Year 10, students analyse how and/or why the elements of dance, choreographic devices, genre- or style-specific techniques, production elements, and/or technical and expressive skills are manipulated in dance they create and/or experience.
  • They evaluate how drama is used to celebrate and challenge perspectives of Australian identity.
  • Students use media arts concepts to construct representations and communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
  • By the end of Year 10, students analyse how and why media arts concepts are manipulated to construct representations in media arts works they produce and/or experience.
Dance · Creating and making
Dance · Developing practices and skills
Dance · Exploring and responding
Dance · Presenting and performing
Drama · Creating and making
Drama · Developing practices and skills
Drama · Exploring and responding
Drama · Presenting and performing
Media Arts · Creating and making
Media Arts · Developing practices and skills
Media Arts · Exploring and responding
Media Arts · Presenting and performing
Music · Creating and making
Music · Developing practices and skills
Music · Exploring and responding
Music · Presenting and performing
Visual Arts · Creating and making
Visual Arts · Developing practices and skills
Visual Arts · Exploring and responding
Visual Arts · Presenting and performing

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The Year 9 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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Content descriptions and achievement standard © ACARA, Australian Curriculum Version 9, used under CC BY 4.0. TeachKoala is not affiliated with or endorsed by ACARA.