Years 5 and 6 · The Arts · Exploring and responding

AC9AVA6E01

explore ways that visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials are combined to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in visual arts across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts

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Where AC9AVA6E01 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Years 5 and 6.

1. Years 3 and 4AC9AVA4E01explore where, why and how visual arts are created and/or presented across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts
2. Years 3 and 4AC9AVA4E02explore how First Nations Australians use visual arts to communicate their connection to and responsibility for Country/Place
3. Years 7 and 8AC9AVA8E01investigate ways that visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials are manipulated to represent ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in artworks created across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts
4. Years 7 and 8AC9AVA8E02investigate the diversity of First Nations Australians’ artworks and arts practices, considering culturally responsive approaches to Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property rights