HASS 4.4 bundle: Shaping the Future – Diversity and Technology

Description

Bundle containing all components of HASS/Science Year 4 unit 4.4

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

• HASS + Science: Understanding Our World
• Year 4, Unit 4.4: “Shaping the Future – Diversity and Technology”
• Minimum time allocation 1 hour per week, optimal 2.5 hours a week.

This unit examines diversity in Australian society, whilst linking it to issues around technology and environmental sustainability. There is also a focus on the Australian democratic process, with a mini election, and Australia’s contribution to global democracy. In parallel, the optional Science activity has students grow a plant, recording conditions influencing its development. The growth of the plant is linked to the diversity theme by looking at the cultural meaning of different plants and their connections to Australia’s communities. This Science activity also links to the sustainability theme of this unit. The unit ends with a celebration of diversity, which students plan and develop as part of their class work, which can be run as a class party, if the teacher so decides.

Multi-Year Level Integration

This unit is compatible with the Unit 6.4 We Are One, But We Are Many. It can also be combined with Unit 5.4 Shaping Society – Working Together. These units cover much of the same material and have many of the same activities occurring in the same weeks. There is a slight difference in focus, with Unit 6.4 focussing on the political issues surrounding migrations and diversity in society, Unit 5.4 focussing on the environmental issues connected to migrations and Unit 4.4 focussing on diversity as it affects technology and sustainability. These differences can be addressed by each year level working through the resources appropriate to their area of focus, whilst general resources can be used for all three units. The differences are reflected in the student workbooks, with students focussing their research project on a year-level appropriate theme.