Unit Plans

Year 5 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 5 Unit Plans

English

Maths

Probability (Chance)

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    STEAM Unit: Game Theories

    This presentation introduces our students to basic probability, including how to calculate it and represent it as a fraction, to John Nash’s...

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....

Science

Chemical Sciences

  • Unit Plan Year: 5

    v9 Matter Matters

    This unit is designed to cover ten lessons for the Australian National Curriculum for Year 5 Chemical Science. During this unit, students le...

Earth & Space Sciences

  • Unit Plan Year: 5

    Our Place in Space

    This is a 10 lesson unit that is designed to cover the Australian National Curriculum for Year 5 Earth and Space Sciences. Over the cours...

  • Unit Plan Year: 5

    v9 Surface Change

    This short unit is based on the Year 5 Australian National Curriculum for science. It is designed to build on students' prior knowledge of t...

Biological Sciences

  • Unit Plan Year: 5

    v9 Adaptations

    This Adaptations unit is designed to cover the Biological Sciences content areas for Year 5 students. Students explore the types of adaptati...

Physical Sciences

  • Unit Plan Year: 5

    v9 Might and Sight of Light

    This unit covers all of the Year 5Β Physical Sciences material for the Australian National Curriculum. Throughout these lessons, students lea...

  • 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: 3 4 5 6

    STEAM Unit: Genetic Coin Toss

    This activity book is designed to be used with our genetics presentation, allowing you to extend this lesson with appropriate activities for...

  • 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...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    STEAM Unit: Building Better Bridges

    This activity builds on the previous fun and learning of β€˜Building Bridges’ and challenges students to think about how engineers choose mate...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    STEAM Unit: Bending Wood

    Wood is one of the most fundamental materials there is. We have been using it for millions of years because it is easy to cut, shape and fix...

HASS

History

  • Unit Plan Year: 5

    Exploring Australian History

    This unit is based on the Year 5 Australian Curriculum HASS Inquiry Skills, Knowledge and Understandings. Students explore the First Aust...

  • Unit Plan Year: 5

    v9 History to Federation

    This short unit is based on the Year 5 Australian Curriculum HASS Inquiry Skills, Knowledge and Understandings for History. This unit covers...

Geography

  • Unit Plan Year: 5

    Impacts on Environment

    This unit is based on the Year 5 Australian Curriculum HASS Inquiry Skills, Knowledge and Understandings. Students explore the countries...

  • Unit Plan Year: 5

    v9 Impacts on the Environment

    This unit is based on the Year 5 Australian Curriculum HASS Inquiry Skills, Knowledge and Understandings. In this unit students will investi...

Civics and Citizenship

Economics and Business

  • Unit Plan Year: 5

    v9 Econ 101

    This short unit is based on the Year 5 Australian Curriculum HASS Inquiry Skills, Knowledge and Understandings for Economics and Business. T...

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: 3 4 5 6

    STEAM Unit: Digestion Detectives

    This activity has all the learning of a dissection without any of the mess, smells or gross-out, and is designed to be complete in a single...

  • 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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