This element involves students creating ideas and actions, and considering and expanding on known actions and ideas.
Students imagine possibilities and connect ideas through considering alternatives, seeking solutions and putting ideas into action. They explore situations and generate alternatives to guide actions and experiment with and assess options and actions when seeking solutions. In developing and acting with critical and creative thinking, students:
- imagine possibilities and connect ideas
- consider alternatives
- seek solutions and put ideas into action.
Level 1
Typically by the end of Foundation Year, students:
Imagine possibilities and connect ideas
Consider alternatives
suggest alternative and creative ways to approach a given situation or task
Seek solutions and put ideas into action
predict what might happen in a given situation and when putting ideas into action
Level 2
Typically by the end of Year 2, students:
Imagine possibilities and connect ideas
build on what they know to create ideas and possibilities in ways that are new to them
Consider alternatives
identify and compare creative ideas to think broadly about a given situation or problem
Seek solutions and put ideas into action
investigate options and predict possible outcomes when putting ideas into action
Level 3
Typically by the end of Year 4, students:
Imagine possibilities and connect ideas
expand on known ideas to create new and imaginative combinations
Consider alternatives
explore situations using creative thinking strategies to propose a range of alternatives
Seek solutions and put ideas into action
experiment with a range of options when seeking solutions and putting ideas into action