Unit Plans

Year 2 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 2 Unit Plans

English

Text Structure & Organisation

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

Biological Sciences

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    Growth and Change

    There are predictable stages that all living things go through. They can be very similar between different animals, and there can be interes...

Physical Sciences

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    Push and Pull

    This unit will investigate how the forces of push and pull affect the ways in whichΒ objects move on land, water and in the air. StudentsΒ ...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    v9 Hearing Sounds

    This short unit is based on the Year 2 Australian national science curriculum. In it, students learn what sound is, how they hear it, the di...

Chemical Sciences

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    Combining Materials

    This unit covers the Chemical Sciences portion of the Australian Curriculum for year 2. Through a series of presentations, hands-on activiti...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    v9 Physically Changing Materials

    This unit covers the Chemical Sciences strand of the Australian Curriculum for Year 2. In this unit students will learn that objects are mad...

Earth & Space Sciences

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    Earth's Resources

    This unit that is designed to cover the Australian National Curriculum for Year 2 - Earth and Space Sciences. Throughout this unit, students...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    v9 Our Moving Sky

    This flexible unit is designed to cover the Australian National Curriculum for Year 2 - Earth and Space Sciences. Throughout this unit, stud...

HASS

History

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    Then and Now

    This unit is based on the Year 2 Australian Curriculum HASS Inquiry Skills, Knowledge and Understandings. Students explore changes betwee...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    People and Places of Historical Interest

    This unit is based on the Year 2 Australian Curriculum HASS Inquiry Skills, Knowledge and Understandings. Students explore people and places...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    v9 Then and Now

    This unit is based on the Year 2 Australian Curriculum HASS Inquiry Skills, Knowledge and Understandings. In this unit, students will invest...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    v9 People and Places of Historical Importance

    This unit is based on the Year 2 Australian Curriculum HASS Inquiry Skills, Knowledge and Understandings. Students investigate people and pl...

Geography

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: 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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