Knowledge and Understanding
Based on the Australian Curriculum, Knowledge and Understanding in F-6/7 HASS Year 1 includes:
- History Concepts for developing understandingThe content in the history sub-strand provides opportunities for students to develop historical understanding through key concepts including continuity and change,...
- Geography Concepts for developing understanding The content in the geography sub-strand provides opportunities to develop students' understanding of place, space, environment and change. Students learn abo...
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Our Natural and Built Environments - Poster Pack
Poster with definitions and examples of natural and built environments.
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Interactive Peg Cards - Community Helpers Activities
Learn about community helpers and the jobs they do with a set of interactive peg cards.
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NAIDOC 2021 – Heal Country! - Word Search (Early Years)
A puzzle related to key concepts of the NAIDOC theme.
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NAIDOC 2021 – Heal Country! - Worksheet (Early Years)
A worksheet for students to reflect on the NAIDOC theme as it relates to them.
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NAIDOC 2021 – Heal Country! Teacher information sheet
A teacher information sheet about the NAIDOC 2021 theme: Heal Country!
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NAIDOC 2021 – Heal Country! Student information sheet
A student information sheet about the NAIDOC 2021 theme: Heal Country!
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Communicating with Others - Worksheet
A worksheet for students to identify the communication methods and devices we use today.
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Transport Time Machine - Past and Present Transport Sorting Activity
A fun sorting game for students to identify past modes of transport from the present.
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Spaces and Places – Word Wall Vocabulary
30 spaces and places word wall vocabulary cards.
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Animal Powered Transport - Worksheet
A worksheet for students to identify how animals can be used as a mode of transport.
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Life Without Transport - Worksheet
A worksheet for students to identify how we use transport in our daily lives.
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Popular Toys from the Present Day - Worksheet
A set of 2 worksheets for students to illustrate popular toys from the present day.
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Describing Toys Past and Present - Worksheet
A worksheet for students to describe the features of past and present toys.
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6 Australian National Parks Posters
A set of six posters with information about Australian National Parks, including how to care for them.
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Natural and Built Environments - Information Sheets
A set of information sheets for selected natural and built environments.
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Natural and Built Environments - Brainstorming Pages
A sheet that provides your students with a space to write or draw their ideas.
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Built Environments Concept Map
A concept map to use when learning about built environments.
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Exploring Yesterday and Today – History Word Wall Vocabulary
27 exploring yesterday and today vocabulary cards.
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Continuity and Change Worksheets
A set of four worksheets to use when exploring continuity and change.
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Past, Present and Future Poster
A poster with definitions of the past, present and future.
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Past and Present Teaching Resource Pack
A teaching resource pack of cut-out decorations, posters, games, PowerPoint presentations and worksheets about the past and present.
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Natural and Built Environments Teaching Resource Pack
A pack of posters and worksheets to be used when teaching a unit of work on natural and built environments.
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Daily Life - Then and Now Unit Plan
This History unit covers a range of concepts relating to how daily life of the present is different from the past and how it could change in the future.
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A Comparison of Daily Life - Assessment Task
An inquiry-based assessment task in which students will demonstrate how their world is different from the past and how it might change in the future.
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Toys From the Past
A 60 minute lesson in which students will compare toys from the past with the present.
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Family Life - Then and Now
A 60 minute lesson in which students will compare daily family life from the past with the present.
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Communicating Through Time
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explain how communication devices have changed over time.
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Let's Communicate!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explain how we communicate with others.
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Transport - Then and Now
A 60 minute lesson in which students will compare past and present transport and describe how it has changed over time.
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A Life with Transport
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify different types of modern transport and how they are used.
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Toys From Today
A 60 minute lesson in which students will describe the features of a present day toy.
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Identifying and Classifying Toys
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify an everyday object as a toy and describe how it is used in daily life.