This element involves students developing inquiry skills.
Students pose questions and identify and clarify information and ideas, and then organise and process information. They use questioning to investigate and analyse ideas and issues, make sense of and assess information and ideas, and collect, compare and evaluate information from a range of sources. In developing and acting with critical and creative thinking, students:
- pose questions
- identify and clarify information and ideas
- organise and process information.
Level 1
Typically by the end of Foundation Year, students:
Pose questions
pose factual and exploratory questions based on personal interests and experiences
Identify and clarify information and ideas
identify and describe familiar information and ideas during a discussion or investigation
Organise and process information
gather similar information or depictions from given sources
Level 2
Typically by the end of Year 2, students:
Pose questions
pose questions to identify and clarify issues, and compare information in their world
Identify and clarify information and ideas
identify and explore information and ideas from source materials
Organise and process information
organise information based on similar or relevant ideas from several sources
Level 3
Typically by the end of Year 4, students:
Pose questions
pose questions to expand their knowledge about the world
Identify and clarify information and ideas
identify main ideas and select and clarify information from a range of sources
Organise and process information
collect, compare and categorise facts and opinions found in a widening range of sources