Teaching and learning resources
Teachers select and sequence teaching and learning experiences and strategies to provide opportunities for students to engage with all aspects of the curriculum, developing their understanding and skills.
Planning
Schools plan their curriculum and assessment programs to ensure what is taught informs how it is taught, how students are assessed, and how progress and learning is reported.
Exemplars based on previous versions of the Australian Curriculum can be accessed through the planning resources page.
Resources
Integrating learning areas
Integrating learning areas involves curriculum and assessment planning that draws on two or three subjects within a learning area, or planning across multiple learning areas or subjects.
Advice
Cognitive verbs
The cognitive verb overviews support teachers and school leaders in the explicit teaching of thinking. The overviews highlight the most common cognitive verbs used across learning areas in the Australian Curriculum.
Note: These cognitive verb overviews are for use with the P–10 Australian Curriculum. The cognitive verbs glossary for Years 11–12 students is available under the Teaching tab for each subject in the senior secondary section.
The cognitive verbs are categorised using Marzano and Kendall's four levels of cognitive process: retrieval, comprehension, analysis and knowledge utilisation (2007).
Resources
- Graphic organiser: Years 7–10 Analyse (PDF, 266.6 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 7–10 Apply (PDF, 266.5 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 7–10 Compare (PDF, 259.6 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 7–10 Describe (PDF, 752.1 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 7–10 Develop (PDF, 265.9 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 7–10 Evaluate (PDF, 261.0 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 7–10 Examine (PDF, 259.8 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 7–10 Explain (PDF, 753.1 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 7–10 Identify (PDF, 263.0 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 7–10 Infer (PDF, 256.2 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 7–10 Interpret (PDF, 259.7 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 7–10 Make decisions (PDF, 259.3 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 7–10 Represent (PDF, 259.0 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 7–10 Select (PDF, 764.1 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 7–10 Understand (PDF, 256.7 KB)
- Poster: Years 7-10 Analyse (PDF, 1.1 MB)
- Poster: Years 7-10 Apply (PDF, 1021.1 KB)
- Poster: Years 7-10 Compare (PDF, 1.0 MB)
- Poster: Years 7-10 Describe (PDF, 1010.3 KB)
- Poster: Years 7-10 Develop (PDF, 1.0 MB)
- Poster: Years 7-10 Evaluate (PDF, 1.0 MB)
- Poster: Years 7-10 Examine (PDF, 1022.4 KB)
- Poster: Years 7-10 Explain (PDF, 1.0 MB)
- Poster: Years 7-10 Identify (PDF, 1.0 MB)
- Poster: Years 7-10 Infer (PDF, 1015.0 KB)
- Poster: Years 7-10 Interpret (PDF, 1.1 MB)
- Poster: Years 7-10 Make decisions (PDF, 1013.3 KB)
- Poster: Years 7-10 Represent (PDF, 1.0 MB)
- Poster: Years 7-10 Select (PDF, 1001.9 KB)
- Poster: Years 7-10 Understand (PDF, 1.0 MB)
- Years 7-10 cognitive verb toolkit: Analyse (PDF, 167.6 KB)
- Years 7-10 cognitive verb toolkit: Apply (PDF, 167.4 KB)
- Years 7-10 cognitive verb toolkit: Compare (PDF, 166.5 KB)
- Years 7-10 cognitive verb toolkit: Describe (PDF, 167.3 KB)
- Years 7-10 cognitive verb toolkit: Develop (PDF, 168.1 KB)
- Years 7-10 cognitive verb toolkit: Evaluate (PDF, 167.0 KB)
- Years 7-10 cognitive verb toolkit: Examine (PDF, 167.4 KB)
- Years 7-10 cognitive verb toolkit: Explain (PDF, 167.2 KB)
- Years 7-10 cognitive verb toolkit: Identify (PDF, 167.0 KB)
- Years 7-10 cognitive verb toolkit: Infer (PDF, 166.2 KB)
- Years 7-10 cognitive verb toolkit: Interpret (PDF, 166.9 KB)
- Years 7-10 cognitive verb toolkit: Make decisions (PDF, 165.6 KB)
- Years 7-10 cognitive verb toolkit: Represent (PDF, 168.5 KB)
- Years 7-10 cognitive verb toolkit: Select (PDF, 165.5 KB)
- Years 7-10 cognitive verb toolkit: Understand (PDF, 165.4 KB)
- Cognitive verbs in the P–10 Australian Curriculum: The Arts — Visual Arts (PDF, 180.8 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 3–6 Analyse (PDF, 365.1 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 3–6 Apply (PDF, 368.1 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 3–6 Compare (PDF, 365.3 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 3–6 Describe (PDF, 356.3 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 3–6 Develop (PDF, 372.2 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 3–6 Evaluate (PDF, 364.4 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 3–6 Examine (PDF, 360.9 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 3–6 Explain (PDF, 361.3 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 3–6 Identify (PDF, 368.3 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 3–6 Infer (PDF, 360.5 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 3–6 Interpret (PDF, 368.8 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 3–6 Making decisions (PDF, 368.4 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 3–6 Represent (PDF, 362.6 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 3–6 Select (PDF, 375.2 KB)
- Graphic organiser: Years 3–6 Understand (PDF, 371.5 KB)
- Cognitive verbs in the P–10 Australian Curriculum: Prep (Foundation) (PDF, 312.3 KB)
- Cognitive verbs in the P–10 Australian Curriculum: Year 1 (PDF, 317.8 KB)
- Cognitive verbs in the P–10 Australian Curriculum: Year 2 (PDF, 323.3 KB)
- Cognitive verbs in the P–10 Australian Curriculum: Year 3 (PDF, 350.0 KB)
- Cognitive verbs in the P–10 Australian Curriculum: Year 4 (PDF, 342.5 KB)
- Cognitive verbs in the P–10 Australian Curriculum: Year 5 (PDF, 370.8 KB)
- Cognitive verbs in the P–10 Australian Curriculum: Year 6 (PDF, 194.3 KB)
- Cognitive verbs in the P–10 Australian Curriculum: Year 7 (PDF, 404.1 KB)
- Cognitive verbs in the P–10 Australian Curriculum: Year 8 (PDF, 386.7 KB)
- Cognitive verbs in the P–10 Australian Curriculum: Year 9 (PDF, 382.3 KB)
- Cognitive verbs in the P–10 Australian Curriculum: Year 10 (PDF, 389.3 KB)
Last updated 8 August 2019
Australian Curriculum Version 8.4 in Queensland
- Learning areas
- General capabilities
- Cross-curriculum priorities
- Implementation advice
- Professional development
- P–10 resources search
- Frequently used resources
- Career/Work education
- P–6 assessment literacy courses