HASS 4.1 bundle – Ancient Explorers: Ice Age travellers, the settlement of Australia

Description

Bundle containing all components of HASS/Science Year 4 unit 4.1

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

• HASS + Science: Understanding Our World
• Year 4 Unit 4.1: “Ancient Explorers: Ice Age travellers, the settlement of Australia”
• Minimum time allocation of one hour per week. Extensions are provided for up to 2.5 hours a week.

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.

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.

Multi-Year Level Integration

In a multi-year level class, this unit can be integrated with the unit for Year 5: Ancient Explorers: Ice Age travellers, the settlement of Australia and the Americas. It is also broadly compatible with the units for Year 6: Ancient Explorers – Ice Age travellers, the settlement of Australia, Asia and the Americas and Year 3: Australia, Then and Now.