Activity One

My House
Year Level: Prep

Time: 40 minutes

Curriculum Area:
History

Teacher Background
Knowledge:
From an outside perspective, this
lesson and its correlating activity
would be placed towards the middle
of a unit that explored Me and my
Family.
In previous lessons, students would
explored who the people in their
family are- identifying terms such
mum, dad, brother sister, etc.
Students would have also have
completed an activity that required
them to ask two of their family
where they were born and raised.
Students then completed a lesson

Curriculum Links:
Historical Knowledge and
Understanding:
The different structures of
families and family groups
today, and what they have
in common (ACHHK002).
Historical Skills:
Explore a point of view
(ACHHS020).

Activity
The class watches a YouTube video about members evident within a generic
family structure. After watching the video, the children are to recall the names
we give to the members of our family (mum, dad, brother, sister, etc.).
After that, the students are to head back to their desks and draw and label the
members of their family, which they live with. Once this is finished, the kids
are then to walk around the classroom and find a classmate who has a
different family structure from their own. Once students have paired up, the
students are then to pose questions to each other about the differences and
similarities between their families.
Once the questioning period has concluded, the teacher is to ask the student
to sit down on the carpet, as pairs. The teacher is then to call upon each pair
and have them discuss the similarities and difference to the class.

Assessment of, for, and as

Learning:
Assessment as learning:
Assessment as learning occurs when
students are their own assessors (The
Board of Studies NSW, 2015).
Assessment as learning is used within
this lesson as a way for students to
assess their own understanding.
Students do this by recognising that
everyones family and family structure

Lesson Objectives:
By the end of this lesson,
students will have an
opportunity to demonstrate
their ability to:

Connections to the General

Capabilities:
Literacy: This activity connects to the
general capability of literacy through:

Use language to interact with

others
Understand how visual
elements create meaning.

Intercultural Understanding: This

activity connects the general
capability of intercultural
understanding through:

Identify and understand

that classmates could
possibly come from
different family structures
of their own.
Understand, empathise and
explore a classmates
perception family.
Student Intentions:

We look at and realise that

some of our peers come
from families that are
different from my own.
I will try to understand
other classmates
understanding of family

Student Orientated Instructions:

1. Class is to watch a short YouTube clip about members evident within a
generic family.
2. Students are then to recall the names we give to the members of the family
we live with.
3. Students are then to head back to their desks.
4. Students are then to draw, colour and label pictures of their family.
5. Once all students have finished this, the children are then encouraged to
walk around the classroom and find a person who has a different family
structure then their own.
6. Students are then to ask each other questions about their different family
structures.

Adaptations for Individual Differences:

Because a unit like this may happen early in the year, the teacher may have to do
some of the labelling for the students.