P–6 Curriculum Planning Model
At our school we cover the following units and work with our community to provide local, historical learning opportunities. We have a visiting, specialist teacher who implements HASS and Technologies.
A Cycle
Australia Past and Present
Unit 1
Prep–Year 2: To talk about a special event in their life and how it is celebrated / To explain how technology has shaped daily life. To investigate an important historical place.
Years 3–6: To investigate factors that shape identity, the importance of laws, the significance of Cook’s exploration, and impacts of the First Fleet.
Years 5-6: Investigate how Australia became a Federation; explore three levels of government and how citizenship rights have changed for different groups.
Unit 2
Prep–Year 2: To describe and represent the features of a familiar place. To suggest ways to care for familiar places. / To recognise the world is divided into geographic divisions and to investigate how people are connected to places.
Years 3–4: To investigate and compare places and conduct a waste management inquiry.
Years 5–6: To compare the places, people and cultures of Australia and Indonesia, identifying how they are connected. To explain how resources can be used to benefit individuals, the community and the environment.
B Cycle
Changing Life and Communities
Prep–Year 2: Students will investigate their personal history and identify and describe important dates and changes in their own lives.
Years 3–6: Students will investigate commemorations and celebrations that take place in their community and explore what aspects have changed and remained the same over time.
Unit 2
People and places
Prep–Year 2: Students will explore what places are like and what makes them special. They will recognise the features of places and collect data about observations of a local place.
Years 3–6: Students will explore the characteristics of places from the local to national scale, and how and why places are similar and different.
The P–6 Curriculum Planning Model for HASS is based on a 2 year A/B cycle of C2C HASS units. Each cycle consists of 2semester-long inquiry-based units that have been chosen to ensure a range and balance of text types and assessment types across the year. Each unit contains assessment alignment planners and assessment tasks for each year level.