Preliminary Dance
Dance (2+ hours)
A unit that describes, identifies, and applies an understanding of dance works, elements and contextual ideas for Stage 4, 5 & 6.
Creative arts
Units of work
Visit the Creative arts curriculum page for downloadable scope and sequences, sample units and assessments for the following subjects:
- Dance
- Drama
- Music 1, 2 and extension
- Visual arts
- Ceramics
- Photography video and digital imaging
- Visual Design
These units can be adapted to support teachers to deliver learning at home and school.
Learning from home programs
These programs, created by department curriculum experts, can be adapted to support teachers delivering learning from home or in the classroom.
Dance
Drama
Preliminary Drama
Black comedy study module (2+ hours)
A student-centered online study module exploring content for Topic 6: Black Comedy of the Stage 6 HSC drama course.
Topic 6 - Black comedy google site
Drama (2+ hours)
A unit that describes, identifies, interprets, devises, and responds to scripted and unscripted material.
Music 1 and 2
Stage 6 Music projects
3 x 2-4 week units
This online resource contains a self-guided project and two units of work on Baroque rocks and the Australian composition Eliza Aria. Baroque rocks allows Music 1 or Music 2 students to complete a group or individual project on Baroque music that could take from 2-4 weeks.
Eliza Aria allows Music 1 or Music 2 students to complete online work for the topic of Australian Music or for Music 2 mandatory topic Music of the Last 25 years (Australian focus). This also could take 2-4 weeks to complete. An Eliza Aria Answers (DOCX 70.91KB) is an accompanying teacher resources that provides answers to various questions asked in this unit.
The final module is a self-guided project for students undertaking the Music 1 Stage 6 syllabus topic of An instrument and its repertoire.
Associated resources
There are also digital student resources and activities located in our filterable resource library that are suitable for flexible delivery of learning.
Additionally, find ideas and activities on our curated list of external links.
Distance education resources
Access HSC distance education resources developed to support students that cannot access a physical school. The Distance education network offers these documents to support teachers in delivering off-campus learning. They are not designed for all learning contexts and are not expected to address all syllabus outcomes. Curriculum experts are reviewing them and when quality-assured versions are available they will be highlighted.
While the resources support independent student study, they must be used in consultation with their subject teacher.