Curriculum Mapping

On this page you find the curriculum mapping (in convenient PDF layout) for the different OpenSTEM® program units.

Note that a full set of units for a year level covers all of the Australian Curriculum requirements for that year (achievement standards with assessment).

Understanding Our World®

Integrated History/Geography (HASS) + Science Program for Primary Schools

Combined Unit/Curriculum Maps (A3)

• OpenSTEM® Understanding Our World® – Overview T1 – F to Yr3
• OpenSTEM® Understanding Our World® – Overview T1 – Yr3-6
• OpenSTEM® Understanding Our World® – Overview T2 – F to Yr3
• OpenSTEM® Understanding Our World® – Overview T2 – Yr3-6
• OpenSTEM® Understanding Our World® – Overview T3 – F to Yr3
• OpenSTEM® Understanding Our World® – Overview T3 – Yr3-6
• OpenSTEM® Understanding Our World® – Overview T4 – F to Yr3
• OpenSTEM® Understanding Our World® – Overview T4 – Yr3-6

Mapping per Individual Unit

• Stand-alone
  • F.1: Me and My Global Family (PDF)
  • F.2: Where we Live (PDF)
  • F.2: Children Long Ago (PDF)
  • F.4: How Has Life Changed? (PDF)
• Suitable for integration with 1.1 and 2.1
  • F.5: My Global Family (PDF)
  • F.6: My School (PDF)
  • F-1.3: Families Long Ago [Foundation] Families Long Ago [Year 1] (2 PDFs)
  • F-1.4: Families and their Places [Foundation] Families and their Places [Year 1]  (2 PDFs)

• 1.1: Seasons in Our Lives (PDF)
• 1.2: Our Landscape (PDF)
• 1.3: Families Through Time (PDF)
• 1.4: Families Around The World (PDF)

• 2.1: Our Changing World (PDF)
• 2.2: Our Local Landscape (PDF)
• 2.3: Daily Life in the Past (PDF)
• 2.4: Our Earth’s Special Places (PDF)

• Stand-alone or integrated with Year 1, 2
  • 3.1: Celebrating Our World (PDF)
  • 3.2: Our Changing Community (PDF)
  • 3.3: Brisbane Through Time (PDF)
  • 3.4: Communities Here and Abroad (PDF)
• Suitable for integration with Year 4, 5, 6
  • 3.5: Australia Then and Now (PDF)
  • 3.6: Exploring Climates (PDF)
  • 3.7: Our City Our Past (PDF)
  • 3.8: Celebrating Diversity (PDF)

• 4.1: Ancient Explorers: Ice Age travellers, the settlement of Australia (PDF)
• 4.2: Exploring Africa and South America (PDF)
• 4.3: Origins of Australia (PDF)
• 4.4: Shaping the Future – Diversity and Technology (PDF)

• 5.1: Ancient Explorers: Ice Age travellers, the settlement of Australia and the Americas (PDF)
• 5.2: Exploring America (PDF)
• 5.3: The Colonial Experience in Australia (PDF)
• 5.4: Shaping Society – Working Together (PDF)

• 6.1: Ancient Explorers: Ice Age travellers, the settlement of Australia, Asia and the Americas (PDF)
• 6.2: Exploring Asia (PDF)
• 6.3: Young Australia (PDF)
• 6.4: We Are One But We Are Many (PDF)