HASS 1.4 bundle: Families Around The World

Description

Bundle containing all components of HASS/Science Year 1 unit 1.4

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

• History & Geography + Science: Understanding Our World
• Year 1, Unit 1.4: “Families Around The World”
• Minimum time allocation half an hour per week, optimal 1 hour a week.

This unit examines families across the world and relates them back to the idea of cultural diversity in Australia. Students examine the structure of different families and examine the question “what makes a family?”. Students examine where in the world these families live, and investigate the places associated with the families. This investigation starts to introduce students to the interplay between culture and place. Students consider how different places around the world are cared for by the people that live there. The local environment is discussed both in terms of its living and non-living features. Students then relate this learning back to their own environment and compare these families with Australia, whilst also examining cultural diversity in Australia.

Multi-Year Level Integration

This unit is broadly compatible with the Unit F.4 How Has Life Changed and Unit 3.4 Communities Here and Abroad. It can also be used with Unit 2.4 Our Earth’s Special Places. Unit 1.4 and Unit 2.4 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 1.4 focussing on families and Unit 2.4 emphasising places, 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.