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Knowledge and Understanding Content Inquiry and Skills Content Descriptions covered (at least
Descriptions covered (at least one and no three)
more than two)
Questioning
Develop appropriate questions to guide an inquiry about people,
events, developments, places, systems and challenges
Content Description 1:
(ACHASSI094)
The influence of people, including Researching
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Locate and collect relevant information and data from primary
Peoples, on the environmental and secondary sources (ACHASSI095)
characteristics of Australian places Sequence information about people’s lives, events,
(ACHASSK112) developments and phenomena using a variety of methods
including timelines (ACHASSI097)
Analysing:
Content Description 2: Examine different viewpoints on actions, events, issues and
The impact of bushfires or floods on phenomena in the past and present (ACHASSI099)
Evaluating and Reflecting:
environments and communities, and how
Evaluate evidence to draw conclusions (ACHASSI101)
people can respond (ACHASSK114) Reflect on learning to propose personal and/or collective action
in response to an issue or challenge, and predict the probable
effects (ACHASSI104)
Communicating
Present ideas, findings, viewpoints and conclusions in a range of
texts and modes that incorporate source materials, digital and
non-digital representations and discipline-specific terms and
conventions (ACHASSI105)
Brief description of the units purpose Key Inquiry questions (essential questions) to guide
(refer to Year level description) unit thinking (do not have to be limited to those in the curriculum
document)
Assessment tasks Rationale for the assessment design for this unit
(reference to learning theories)
Teaching and learning sequence for the Where applicable incorporate and clearly describe the HaSS
5 week unit stages of inquiry into your session progression/structure. i.e.
Questioning, Researching, Analysing, Evaluating and Reflecting
and Communicating
Teaching focus Learner activity Assessment Resources used
Related to the
stages of Inquiry Aboriginal to Present?
Week 1 Introduction of topic and key Formative Assessment:
Questioning: concepts Short Quiz to see what
Students will their knowledge is before
develop Activity to engage children in unit.
questions topic: Pictures of different
elements of society around
Researching: classroom- teacher asks which
Sequence has most negative influence on
information Australian environment- then
about events, asks which has least negative.
developments When each question is asked,
and phenomena students move to the picture
using a variety of they think is correct- as a group
methods they must come up with an
including answer as to why they chose that
timelines picture.
There also pictures of different
environmental elements- teacher
asks which has most and least
negative influence on Australian
people. Students move to picture
of choice and explain why they
chose it.
Week 4 Excursion
ICT resources available (no more than Learning resources to be used with the students (no
three) more than four)
History Mathematics
The nature of convict or colonial presence, Pose questions and collect categorical or numerical data
including the factors that influenced patterns by observation or survey (ACMSP118)
of development, aspects of the daily life of
the inhabitants (including Aboriginal Construct displays, including column graphs, dot plots and
Peoples and Torres Strait Islander Peoples) tables, appropriate for data type, with and without the use
and how the environment changed of digital technologies (ACMSP119)
(ACHASSK107)
Science
Construct and use a range of representations, including
tables and graphs, to represent and describe
observations, patterns or relationships in data using digital
technologies as appropriate (ACSIS090)
Visual Arts
Topic background resources (for teacher Pedagogical resources to support the teaching of the
use only) to support teaching learning for unit (at least 3 articles, book chapters, videos etc)
the unit (at least 3 resources - articles, book
chapters, videos etc)