Similarities & Differences
Notice and appreciate ways that people are similar to and different from each other — including appearance, family structures, languages spoken, foods eaten, and celebrations observed — and understand that differences make communities interesting
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Can your child talk positively about how families in their class are different — some have two mums, some speak another language at home, some celebrate different holidays — and see this as interesting rather than strange?
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Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
causes and effects of changes to the local community, and how people who may be from diverse backgrounds have contributed to these changes
the people in their family, where they were born and raised, and how they are related to each other
differences in family structures and roles today, and how these have changed or remained the same over time
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
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.