HASS 1.3 bundle: Families Through Time

Description

Bundle containing all components of HASS/Science Year 1 unit 1.3

Teacher handbook with complete lesson plans, curriculum mapping, assessment guide, student workbook and model answers (5 PDFs) for

• History & Geography + Science: Understanding Our World
• Year 1 Unit 1.3: “Families Through Time”
• Minimum time allocation half an hour per week, optimal 1 hour a week.

This unit investigates how families have changed through time and across the world. Students examine the structure of different families and examine the question “what makes a family?”.

The timeline activity provides a hands-on experience mapping the abstract concept of time to 2-dimensional and even 3-dimensional space, which helps students to understand the concept of time and its duration. The timeline activity also supports the number-line concept as developed in the Mathematics Curriculum and should be introduced either after or concurrently with the teaching of the number-line.

Students will undertake a guided Scientific Investigation to examine types of evidence of families in the past. Students will consider stories, photographs, artefacts and texts, such as letters and journals, as sources of information about the past. The Scientific Investigation will introduce students to the Scientific Process and how conclusions are drawn from examinations of data, including artefacts.

Multi-Year Level Integration

This unit is broadly compatible with the Unit F.3 Children Long Ago and Unit 3.3 Brisbane Through Time. It can also be used with Unit 2.3 Daily Life in the Past. Unit 1.3 and Unit 2.3 cover much of the same material and have the same activities occurring in the same weeks. There is a slight difference in focus, with Unit 1.3 focussing on families and Unit 2.3 adding a comparison of technology, but this difference is reflected mainly in the student workbooks, and teachers in multi-year level classes can emphasise the relative importance of each set of information. These units are designed to be taught together easily, without disruption to the flow of the class.