HASS 4-6.1 bundle: Ancient Explorers – Ice Age travellers

Description

Bundle containing all components of HASS/Science Year 4-6 Units 4.1-6.1 (combined)

Teacher handbook with complete lesson plans, curriculum mapping, assessment guide, student workbooks and worksheets, and a workbooks with model answers for

• HASS + Science: Understanding Our World
• Year 4-6 Units 4.1-6.1 (combined): “Ancient Explorers: Ice Age travellers”
• Minimum time allocation of one hour per week. Extensions are provided for up to 3 hours a week.
• Please note that the special multi-year bundles only include the teacher handbook and assessment guide for the highest year, as you generally don’t want to be juggling multiple handbooks in the one classroom. If this does not suit your needs, please order the individual units.

This is a special bundle for schools where students in Year levels 4-6 are in the one classroom, integrating:

Unit 4.1 Ancient Explorers: Ice Age travellers, the settlement of Australia
Unit 5.1 Ancient Explorers: Ice Age travellers, the settlement of Australia and the Americas
Unit 6.1 Ancient Explorers: Ice Age travellers, the settlement of Australia, Asia and the Americas

This unit introduces students to the Ice Age environment and how it differed from today. Changes in climate as well as animals and sea level are discussed. The movement of modern humans out of Africa early in the Ice Age and their spread around the world is explained. Students are encouraged to envisage the Ice Age environment in Australia and to understand how Ice Age conditions both helped and hindered people in reaching Australia. At the same time movements of people into Asia, the Americas and Europe are introduced, which provides background for understanding later explorations covered in later units. A few case studies are given of Indigenous Peoples of Australia and Asia. Students examine the Origins of Agriculture. The Trade and Barter Activity covers curriculum strands from History, Geography, as well as Economics and Business.

Students are introduced to Landmarks in Australia and around the world with the Aunt Madge’s Suitcase Activity and finally they are introduced to basic concepts of democracy by comparing Ancient Greek democracy with modern Australian democracy. This also provides an introduction to a more in-depth examination of these issues a later unit. Basic information from the Civics and Citizenship Curriculum is introduced.