How Emotions Feel in Your Body
Understand the connection between emotions and the body — recognising physical signals like butterflies in the stomach (nervous), clenched fists (angry), racing heart (scared or excited), and tight shoulders (stressed)
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Before a school performance or sports day, can your child notice and tell you about the physical feelings in their body — like butterflies in their tummy — and connect them to being nervous or excited?
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Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 ACARA · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
explain how and why emotional responses can vary and practise strategies to manage their emotions
apply strategies to manage emotions and analyse how emotional responses influence interactions
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.