Triggers and Causes of Feelings
Your child knows that feelings have a cause. Something happens, and it makes them feel a certain way — and they can often say what it was.
In curriculum terms
Understand that feelings have causes — something happens (a trigger) and that makes us feel a certain way — and begin to identify what triggers their own emotions
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How to tell they’ve got it
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When your child gets upset about something at school, can they explain to you what happened that made them feel that way?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
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
identify how different situations influence emotional responses
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.