VC2S2U08
Parents start here
By the end of Foundation to Level 2: your child knows Earth is one of several planets that circle the Sun.
- State that Earth is a planet and there are other planets too
- Use the term 'solar system' to describe the Sun and the planets that orbit it
One skill from the map, ages 5–7 — its page has the rest of the checklist and what comes next. Candidate alignment, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
A Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 content description in Science, Foundation to Level 2. The description text is © VCAA and not reproduced here — read the official wording at the VCAA site.
Official source: Victorian Curriculum F–10 V2.0 — Science ↗ · content © VCAA (CC-BY-NC) · codes shown as reference labels only
Closest Australian Curriculum v9 codes
The national codes this Victorian code most closely corresponds to — machine-suggested candidates, unreviewed (v0.1).
recognise Earth is a planet in the solar system and identify patterns in the changing position of the sun, moon, planets and stars in the sky
Other skills on the Learning Map matched to this code — candidate alignments, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
10 other candidate matches — 5 medium, 5 low
Alignments generated 9 July 2026, unreviewed.
Nearby in the Science Understanding strand (Foundation to Level 2):
VC2S2U01VC2S2U02VC2S2U03VC2S2U04VC2S2U05VC2S2U06VC2S2U07VC2S2U09
Teaching this? Learning Map for teachers has the sequencing view and copy-paste words to send home.