Unit Plans

Year 1 Unit Plans

Cross-Curricular units designed to provide strong foundations for young learners to develop the required learning as outlined in the content descriptions within the Australian Curriculum.

Our Year 1 Unit Plans

English

Literature & Contexts

Maths

Number & Place Value

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: Building Bridges

    This activity is a quick engineering challenge that your students will love! It can be completed in a single session with minimal materials....

Patterns & Algebras

Science

Chemical Sciences

  • Unit Plan Year: 1

    Changing Materials

    This unit has been designed to meet the requirements of the Year 1 Australian Curriculum Science - Chemical Sciences strand. In this unit...

Earth & Space Sciences

  • Unit Plan Year: 1

    The Sky and Landscape

    This unit has been designed for Year 1 based on the Australian Curriculum Earth and Space Sciences strand. Students will investigate the obs...

  • Unit Plan Year: 1

    v9 Weather and the Seasons

    This unit covers the Earth and Space Sciences strand of the Australian Curriculum for Year 1. In this unit, students will learn about weathe...

Biological Sciences

Physical Sciences

  • Unit Plan Year: 1

    Sights and Sounds

    This unit has been designed for Year 1 based on the Australian Curriculum Physical Science Strand. Students will investigate sources of ligh...

  • Unit Plan Year: 1

    v9 Push and Pull

    This unit covers the Physical Sciences strand of the Australian Curriculum for Year 1. In this unit, students will explore the forces used t...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: The Big Bang

    This activity pack is designed to go along with our Big Bang presentation. This activity kit allows you to turn that interesting presentatio...

  • Unit Plan Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    STEAM Unit: Designing Robots

    Unlike many of our STEAM activities, this is a full unit, designed for Year 3 and 4 students to fulfil part of the Design and Technologies p...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: Extinction Emergency

    This STEAM activity pack was designed to accompany our Extinction emergency presentation. It includes instructions for the STEAM activities,...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: Powerful Pollination

    This activity pack contains a fun pollination activity that turns your classroom into a field of flowers for the students to pollinate. It w...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: The Science of Flight

    This activity kit is designed to accompany the STEAM presentation on the Physics of Flight. In this pack, you will find all the necessary in...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: What is a Hovercraft?

    This activity kit, designed to be used in conjunction with our β€˜What is a Hovercraft Presentation’ teaches your students the story of the ho...

HASS

Geography

History

Health

Technologies

STEAM

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: STEAM Team Badges

    This set of reusable name badges can be used during teamwork activities in the classroom, especially with STEAM.For more information on team...

The Arts

  • Unit Plan Year: 1 3 4 5 +1

    STEAM Unit: Fabulous Fibonacci

    In this STEAM activity pack, students put some of what they have learned during the Fabulous Fibonacci presentation into action by creating...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: Tangram Algorithms

    In this activity, students build on what they have already learned about coding by creating algorithms for a partner to replicate tangram pu...

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