HASS F.A year bundle – Units F.1-F.4

Description

Year bundle containing all components of HASS/Science Foundation units F.1 to F.4

Teacher handbooks with complete lesson plans, curriculum mapping and assessment guide, student workbook and model answers, plus all the resource PDFs for

• History & Geography + Science: Understanding Our World
• K/Prep/Foundation Year
• Minimum time allocation half an hour per week, optimal 1 hour a week.

Unit F.1 “Me and My Global Family”

This unit introduces students to a discussion of families. Students identify their own position in a family structure and are introduced to basic terms for family members. Students then place their own family in a global context by looking at where in the world their family members currently live and then where in the world members of their family have ever lived. Students are then introduced to some celebrations in Australia and around the world. The overall purpose of this unit is to draw on similarities between the disparate members of the class, to find out some information about each other and to see that they all have links around the world. This process allows students to get to know each other, recognise their own roots and see that they share some experiences.

Unit F.2 “Where we Live”

This unit investigates places where people live. It introduces the ideas of basic needs, including shelter, as well as food and water and how these needs are met in the places that people live. The children undertake an activity to express their favourite place, which can be real or imaginary. They investigate aspects of their favourite place, considering materials, as well as input from all their senses. Once they have thoroughly investigated their favourite place, the concept of caring for places can be introduced and discussed with respect to their favourite place, as well as homes and school. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander relationship to Country/Place is also introduced.

Unit F.3 “Children Long Ago”

This unit investigates how children lived long ago and compares their lives to the lives of children now. It introduces the ideas of basic needs, including shelter, as well as food and water and how these needs have been met through time. The students investigate the lives of children in the past by considering their homes, how they played and what food they ate. The case studies provided will cover a broad range of times and places around the world. A range of activities allows them to try to experience what life might have been like for children in the past and thus compare those experiences to their own lives.

Students will undertake a guided Scientific Investigation to examine types of evidence for how children lived in the past. Students will consider stories, photographs, artefacts and museums as sources of information about the past. Students will start a small museum in their classroom. The Scientific Investigation will introduce students to the Scientific Process and how conclusions are drawn from examinations of data, including artefacts.

Unit F.4 “How Has Life Changed?”

This unit investigates the difference between daily life today and in the past. Students examine celebrations today and in the past; special places, especially natural places and Aboriginal places, and how these places are looked after. They compare modern and old forms of transport, focussing on transport 100 years ago. There is a brief examination of museums and the items displayed in museums, as part of the theme of understanding how we know about the past. Finally the students choose characters from the past and perform a play featuring their characters. If appropriate, the students can dress up as their character and they have props, which identify past objects relating to their characters. In the last week, the students can perform the play for an audience of parents and/or fellow students.

Multi-Year Level Integration

These units are recommended for stand-alone use. For integration with Year 1 and above, we have the F.B year bundle (units F.5-F.8) which have a slightly different layout.