Other People's Feelings and Thoughts
Understand that other people have their own feelings and thoughts, and that these might be different from your own — a foundational awareness that not everyone sees or feels things the same way
How to tell they’ve got it
Tick these off as you see them — no test required.
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Try this together
If your child loves dogs but their friend is scared of dogs, can your child understand that their friend's fear is real even though they don't feel it themselves?
Where this sits on the map
Stuck here? Check the skills it builds on first. Confident? Here’s what it unlocks.
solid = must come firstdashed = helps
Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
a local individual, group, place or building and the reasons for their importance, including social, cultural or spiritual significance
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.