Mild to Strong Emotions
Understand that emotions come in different intensities — from mild to strong — and that the same emotion can feel very different depending on how intense it is (e.g., annoyed → angry → furious, or nervous → anxious → panicked)
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Can your child tell the difference between being a bit annoyed about losing a game and being truly furious — and explain that they're different levels of the same feeling?
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Curriculum alignment
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Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
explain how and why emotional responses can vary and practise strategies to manage their emotions
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.