Please see below an overview of the Inquiry Focus for Term Two, during Remote Learning.
Unit One Title: Me & My Place
Through Line: Place/History & Change
Learning Area/s: History/Geography
Capability: Intercultural Capability
Content:
History Content Descriptors – Historical Knowledge
Personal histories
Who the people in their family are, where they were born and raised, how they are related to each other and how their stories are communicated and shared
Differences and similarities in family structures and the role of family groups today
Differences and similarities between students' daily lives and perspectives of life during their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods, including family traditions and leisure time
History Content Descriptors – Historical Concepts and Skills
Chronology
Sequence significant events about personal history to create a chronological narrative
Historical sources as evidence
Identify the content features of primary sources when describing the significance of people, places or events
Identify perspectives about changes to daily life from people in the past or present
Continuity and change
Identify examples of continuity and change in family life and in the local area by comparing past and present
Identify and describe the features of places at a local scale and how they change, recognising that people describe the features of places differently
Describe and explain where places and activities are located
Identify how people are connected to different places
Places and our connections to them
Representation of the location of places and their features on maps and models
Natural, managed and constructed features of places, their location and how they change
Reasons why some places are special and some places are important to people and how they can be looked after
Activities in the local place and reasons for their location
Intercultural Capability Content Descriptors
Cultural practices
Identify what is familiar and what is different in the ways culturally diverse individuals and families live
Cultural diversity
Identify and discuss cultural diversity in the school and/or community
Achievement Standards:
History – Personal Histories
By the end of Level 2:
Explains aspects of daily life to identify how some have changed over recent time while others have remained the same.
History – Historical Concepts and Skills
Sequences events in order, using a range of terms relating to time.
Uses sources (physical, visual, oral) including the perspectives of others (parents, grandparents) to describe changes to daily life and the significance of people, places or events.
Compares objects from the past and present.
Geography
By the end of Level 2:
Defines place, and identifies and describes features of places at a local scale.
Identifies how people are connected to different places and explains the value of places to people.
Intercultural Capability
By the end of Level 2:
Begins to distinguish between what is familiar and different in the ways culturally diverse individuals and families live.
Identifies cultural diversity in their school and/or community.
Unit One Title: Me & My Place
Through Line: Place/History & Change
Themes: Students explore and communicate their own history and that of their families with their fellow students. They identify who the people in their family are, where they were born and raised, how they are related to each other and how their stories are communicated and shared. Students explore the differences and similarities between students' daily lives and perspectives of life during their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods, including family traditions and leisure time. They also identify and discuss cultural diversity in the school and/or community.
Questions:
What are families, and how do they grow and change over time?
Where in the world were we born?
Where in the world were family members born?
What activities and traditions do we enjoy today?
What activities and traditions did our parents enjoy as children?
What activities and traditions did our grandparents enjoy as children?
What has changed over time?
How are activities and traditions similar and/or different across cultures?
