HASS F-6 / Year 5 / Skills / Communicating

Curriculum content descriptions

present descriptions and explanations, drawing ideas, findings and viewpoints from sources, and using relevant terms and conventions (AC9HS5S07)

Elaborations
  • selecting and referencing ideas and viewpoints from letters, graphs, tables, timelines, photographs and pictures, in descriptions and explanations
  • using accurate and subject-appropriate terms; for example, historical terms such as “colonial”, “the gold era”, “migration” and “penal”; geographic terms such as “characteristics”, “environmental”, “human”, “ecosystems”, “sustainable”, “settlement” and “management”; civics terms such as “electoral process”, “democracy”, “shared beliefs”; and economic terms such as “scarcity”, “choices”, “resources”, and “needs and wants”
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Data representation,  Word meanings,  Creating texts,  Oral presentations

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Colonial Australia: defining moments, 1788–1900

This module provides resources and interactive classroom activities for studying colonial Australia in the nineteenth century. Students engage with texts, images, and objects to learn about the significant events and people that shaped the Australian colonies, and the effects of colonisation on the environment. The resource ...

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Mary Watson and the Sea Cucumber Tank

These four activities are contextualised by the stories told about an iron tank, acquired by Queensland Museum in 1882. This tank tells the stories of the Dingaal Aboriginal people and of European settlers; it also highlights the impacts of colonisation.

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Notable colonials

In this learning sequence, students investigate the significance of colonial painter Tom Roberts. With strong links to visual arts, students reproduce part of a Tom Roberts painting and explain its significance. The second activity is an independent inquiry into an individual who had a significant part in shaping the colony ...

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Factors that shape places

This resource explores a contemporary Australian bushfire event. Through investigation of the case study, students will examine the location and extent of the bushfire, the impact on vegetation, animals and people and the role of government agencies in bushfire management. Shaped as a second inquiry, students will create ...

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Australia as a Nation

This learning sequence comprises two short historical inquiries where students explore the people who came to Australia and why they came. This learning sequence can be conducted over four weeks. Inquiry 1 supports students to use primary and secondary sources to investigate the reasons people migrated to Australia from ...

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The Human Impact of Climate Change

Find a Teacher Guide, detailed lesson plans and associated resources for teaching about topics such as the links between climate change and human rights. Support development of understandings of the unequal impacts of the climate crisis in different places in the world and explore how communities around the world are responding ...

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Are You Tougher Than Your Ancestors?

This resource supports the series Are You Tougher Than Your Ancestors? Which explores familiar historic periods and events through the eyes of children who lived through them. Each episode reveals a true story of a resilient and courageous child from the past, and challenges modern-day children to emulate their experiences. ...

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Preparing for the Parliament Prize

Developed to support a state-based annual competition, this resource can be used more broadly to support students articulating the issues that are important to them. Students are asked to consider what they would say to their Parliament if they were an MP and record their own 90-second Member’s Statement video. Find Teacher’s ...

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Work sample Year 5 HASS F-6: Establishment of a new colony

This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Year 5 HASS F-6. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an authentic representation of ...

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Making history

This resource supports students, individuals and community groups to research, produce and share a short digital history about a person or event.

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Thermal comfort – sustainability action process (Years 3–6)

This thermal comfort learning resource will guide students through an extended school based investigation. Students will develop and implement a chosen sustainability action and then evaluate and reflect on their success and their learning.

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Migration to Australia in the 1800s

This sequence of five activities examines the reasons why people, especially women migrated to Australia. Using the historical inquiry process and primary sources including posters, diary transcripts, a water colour painting and sketches, explore the challenges passengers faced during their voyage to Australia.

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Waste and materials – sustainability action process (Years 3–6)

This resource guides students through an extended school-based or local investigation focussed on waste and materials using the five-step sustainability action process. The resource supports the investigation of a real-world issue or problem. Students develop and implement a chosen sustainability action and then evaluate ...

Interactive

Kitchen gardens – sustainability action process (Years 3–6)

This resource guides students through an extended school-based or local investigation focussed on kitchen gardens using the five-step sustainability action process. The resource supports the investigation of a real-world issue or problem. Students develop and implement a chosen sustainability action and then evaluate and ...

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Biodiversity – sustainability action process (Years 3–6)

This biodiversity learning resource guides students through an extended school based investigation. Students develop and implement a chosen sustainability action and then evaluate and reflect on their success and their learning.

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Year 5: roles, responsibilities and participation - Parkhurst apprenticeship scheme

This collection of resource sheets for students and teachers examine the early colonial history of the Swan River Colony in Western Australia. The resources provide scaffolded research activities that focus on the Parkhurst Apprenticeship Scheme that sent indentured youths from England to work in the establishing Australian ...

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Old Government House Parramatta virtual tour

This resource is about exploring Governor Macquarie’s preferred residence while learning more about the early colony through this virtual tour of Old Government House at Parramatta.

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Gold – shaping our identity

This is a task-based resource for students to explore the social, economic, political and environmental impact of the gold rush in Australia in the 1850s. The resource includes videos, SMART notebooks, worksheets and links to further interactive resources. It includes support notes for teachers and/or supervisors in distance ...

Assessment

Year 5 history assessment - Investigating the colonial period in Australia: Shaping the Australian colonies

This is an assessment package that uses the Year 5 Australian Curriculum history achievement standard to gather evidence about how well students have demonstrated what they know, what they understand and what they can do in relation to the topic 'The Australian Colonies'. Students develop and deliver a multimodal presentation ...

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Magna Carta: The story of our freedom

This is a resource about the Magna Carta (Great Charter) agreed between King John and his rebellious barons in 1215 and its influence on the development of human rights and democratic freedoms to the present day. The resource consists of: an animated infographic ‘Tell the story’ with hyperlinks to further information; an ...