This unit is based on the Year 1 Australian Curriculum HASS Inquiry Skills, Knowledge and Understandings.
Students explore family structures and discuss similarities and differences. They investigate and pose questions for families from the past and compare them to their own families.
Students use graphic organisers to compare life from the past with life today, including lunches and school holiday activities.
Students also pose questions for a guest speaker who speaks to the class about their life and makes comparisons with their own life.
Students discuss why things have changed over time, and they create a time machine in which to travel back in time to pose questions to a family member.
Pose questions about past and present objects, people, places and events
Collect data and information from observations and identify information and data from sources provided
Sort and record information and data, including location, in tables and on plans and labelled maps
Explore a point of view
Draw simple conclusions based on discussions, observations and information displayed in pictures and texts and on maps
Present narratives, information and findings in oral, graphic and written forms using simple terms to denote the passing of time and to describe direction and location
Differences in family structures and roles today, and how these have changed or remained the same over time
Differences and similarities between students' daily lives and life during their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods
Demonstrates skills of historical inquiry and communication
Communicates geographical information and uses geographical tools for inquiry
Communicates an understanding of change and continuity in family life using appropriate historical terms
Collect and record geographical data and information from the field and other sources
Represent data and the location of places and their features by constructing tables, plans and labelled maps
Interpret data and information to draw conclusions and describe the direction and location of places, using terms such as north, south, opposite, near, far
Identify the content features of primary sources when describing the significance of people, places or events
Differences in family structures of families and the role of family groups today, and what they have in common and how these have changed or remained the same over time
Differences and similarities between students' daily lives and perspectives of life during their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods, including family traditions, leisure time and communications
Students will:
Lesson 1
What is a family?
This lesson looks at families, what makes up a family. the similarities and differences between them.
Lesson 2
Family Structures in the Class
This lesson explores how the structure of a family is differs from student to student.
Lesson 3
Families from the Past
Students will compare families from the past and present.
Lesson 4
Children from the Past
In this lesson we will look at children from the past and how aspects of their lives are different or the same to ours today.
Lesson 5
Posing Questions
In this lesson students will write questions to ask to their guest speaker in the next lesson.
Lesson 6
Guest Speaker
Student will find out information about their guest speaker by posing questions.
Lesson 7
Comparing Families
Students will compare their family life with the family life of the guest speaker.
Lesson 8
Why have things changed
This lesson will show students that things change for certain reasons and that changes are a good thing.
Lesson 9
Time Machine
Students will use an imaginary time machine to travel back and pose questions to a family member.
Lesson 10
Time Machine - Part 2
This lesson students will answer the questions they came up with in the last lesson.
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Similarities and Differences in Family Structure
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