HASS F-6 / Year 1 / Skills / Concluding and decision-making

Curriculum content descriptions

draw conclusions and make proposals (AC9HS1S05)

Elaborations
  • using collected information (for example, from stories told by parents, grandparents, elders or familiar older people; from comparison of objects; from geographic pictures) to make conclusions about continuity and change over time (for example, how family roles, occupations and/or technologies have changed or remained the same) and how places change (for example, because of the seasons)
  • describing features of a space or place that is important to them and explaining what they could do to care for it; for example, a chicken coop, a play area, their bedroom, the reading corner, the beach
  • imagining how a local feature or place might change in the future and proposing action they could take to improve a place or influence a positive future
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Action projects,  Judgement

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Fairness

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Farms and people's connections to them

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Farms have distinctive features

This resource is a 32 page pdf integrated inquiry unit, for junior primary students, exploring how the distinctive qualities of a farm space influence farming practice. This unit uses the five stage inquiry model to sequence activities. Topics explored include: how do weather patterns and seasons affect farms?; Why are ...

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Virtual reality and the stereoscope

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An old camera

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