HASS
Based on the Australian Curriculum, HASS in F-6/7 HASS includes:
- Foundation Year My personal worldThe Foundation curriculum focuses on developing students' understanding of their personal worlds, including their personal and family histories and the places they and their fami...
- Year 1 How my world is different from the past and can change in the futureThe Year 1 curriculum provides a study of the recent past, the present and the near future within the context of the student's ...
- Year 2 Our past and present connections to people and placesThe Year 2 curriculum extends contexts for study beyond the personal to the community and to near and distant places that students are familiar wit...
- Year 3 Diverse communities and places and the contribution people makeThe Year 3 curriculum focuses on the diversity of people and places in their local community and beyond, and how people participate in th...
- Year 4 How people, places and environments interact, past and presentThe Year 4 curriculum focuses on interactions between people, places and environments over time and space and the effects of these interac...
- Year 5 Australian communities - their past, present and possible futuresThe Year 5 curriculum focuses on colonial Australia in the 1800s and the social, economic, political and environmental causes and effec...
- Year 6 Australia in the past and present and its connections with a diverse worldThe Year 6 curriculum focuses on the social, economic and political development of Australia as a nation, particularly after 1...
- Year 7 Sustainable pasts, present, futuresThe Year 7 curriculum deepens discipline-specific knowledge, understandings and skills with opportunities for integration across the sub-strands. Students study anci...
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Sustainable Forestry
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate sustainable forestry practices.
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Sustainable Fishing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate sustainable fishing practices.
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Sustainable Water Use
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate sustainable water use.
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Adapting to Country/Place
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' ways of living were adapted to the resources of their Country/Place.
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Sustainability - Ask the Experts
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' views about sustainability.
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Overfishing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the effects and potential consequences of overfishing.
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Overuse of Water
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the effects and potential consequences of water overuse.
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Natural Resource Use in the 21st Century
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore how humans use natural resources and raw materials in the present day.
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What Are Natural Resources?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify both renewable and non-renewable resources and where they come from.
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Reflection of Learning
A 60 minute lesson in which students will reflect on what they have learned about the continents of Africa and South America.
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The Natural Environment of South America - Inquiry Task
A 60 minute lesson in which students will demonstrate their understanding of the natural environment of South America through an open-ended inquiry.
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The Natural Environment of South America
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the natural environment of the continent of South America.
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The Topography of South America
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the topographical features of the continent of South America.
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Welcome to South America!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify some of the countries and major cities on the continent of South America.
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The Natural Environment of Africa - Inquiry Task
A 60-minute lesson in which students will demonstrate their understanding of the natural environment of Africa through an open-ended inquiry.
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Assessment: Living Wax Museum – Australian Gold Rush
A 60-minute assessment designed to assess students' knowledge and understanding of the people, politics and events of the Australian Gold Rush.
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The Natural Environment of Africa
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the natural environment of the continent of Africa.
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Eureka Stockade – Fighting for a Vote
A 60-minute lesson in which students learn about the events that led to the Eureka Stockade and how they changed Australian society.
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Melting Pot – Exploring the Cultures That Made the Australian Gold Rush
A 60-minute lesson about the influence different cultures had on Australia during the gold rush years, the challenges newcomers faced, and how they made Australia what it is today.
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The Topography of Africa
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the topographical features of the continent of Africa.
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First Nations – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Involvement in the Gold Rush
A 60-minute lesson in which students explore the impact the Australian Gold Rush had on Indigenous peoples.
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A Golden Democracy – Laws, Taxes and Voting Equality
A 60-minute lesson designed to explain how events during the gold rush influenced Australian laws, taxes, equality and voting rights, and how they shaped our current democracy.
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Welcome to Africa!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify some of the countries and major cities on the continent of Africa.
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A Digger's Life – Exploration of Life on the Goldfields
A 60-minute lesson in which students learn about the working and living conditions of miners on the Australian goldfields.
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Gold Fever - Kick Starting the Australian Gold Rush
A 60-minute lesson in which students learn about the discovery of gold and initial phases of the Australian Gold Rush.
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Where in the World?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will revise world geography.
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Gold – Defining It
A 60-minute lesson in which students will learn what gold is and how it helped shape the currency we use today.
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Australian History - Revisiting the Past
A 60-minute lesson in which students recap their prior knowledge of Australian history and the British colonisation of Australia.
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The Importance of Environments - Inquiry Task
An inquiry-based assessment task in which students will demonstrate their understanding of the importance of their local environment.
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Vegetation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the significance of vegetation endemic to the survival of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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People's Connection with Vegetation
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate the aesthetic, emotional and spiritual connection people have with vegetation.
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Vital Vegetation
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate the different ways that vegetation can be beneficial.