HASS 2.4 bundle: Our Earth’s Special Places

Description

Bundle containing all components of HASS/Science Year 2 unit 2.4

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 2, Unit 2.4: “Our Earth’s Special Places”
• Minimum time allocation half an hour per week, optimal 1 hour a week.

This unit examines special places around the world and relates them back to Australia. Students examine the relationship between places and people. Students investigate people who live in different places around the world and how they interact with their places. This investigation starts to introduce students to the interplay between culture and place. The role of technology in people’s lives and the influence which it has on how people travel is also covered. Students consider different local environments, both in terms of their living and non-living features. The use of resources is each environment is described. Students then relate this learning back to their own environment and compare these places 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 1.4 Families Around the World. 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.