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Years 7 and 8 · The Arts · Exploring and responding

AC9AVA8E01

investigate 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

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Taught alongside it

The rest of Exploring and responding in Years 7 and 8.

AC9AVA8E02

investigate the diversity of First Nations Australians’ artworks and arts practices, considering culturally responsive approaches to Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property rights

The same idea, year by year

Where AC9AVA8E01 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Years 7 and 8.

  1. Years 5 and 6AC9AVA6E01explore 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
  2. Years 5 and 6AC9AVA6E02explore ways that First Nations Australians use visual arts to continue and revitalise cultures
  3. Years 9 and 10AC9AVA10E01investigate the ways that artists across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts develop personal expression in their visual arts practice to represent, communicate and/or challenge ideas, perspectives and/or meaning
  4. Years 9 and 10AC9AVA10E02investigate the ways that First Nations Australian artists celebrate and challenge multiple perspectives of Australian identity through their artworks and visual arts practice

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