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Humanities and social sciences / Year 2 / Inquiry and skills / Evaluating and reflecting

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Curriculum content descriptions

Reflect on learning to propose how to care for places and sites that are important or significant (ACHASSI042)

Elaborations
  • reflecting on their increasing knowledge of special places and natural systems in their local area and, whether their ideas about and behaviours have changed as a result of greater understanding
  • sharing with their teacher, other students and members of their family what they know and have learnt about connections with other places, and explaining the significance of these connections
  • using their knowledge about a familiar place or site to imagine how it might change in the future and how they can influence a positive future for it
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms

Conversations,  Sense of place

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