Australian Curriculum History – The present and the past – Year 1 digital unit

Description

This is a 40-page ebook from the Australian Curriculum History series that covers:

Take a trip through history and learn how the past has helped shape today, with this engaging, content-packed seven-book series covering the Historical knowledge and understanding strand for each year level. Students will be enthralled learning about the first circumnavigation of the globe, Australia’s first people, migrants who have crossed the sea for a new life, and much more.

Differences and similarities between students’ daily lives and life during their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods, including family traditions, leisure time and communications (ACHHS030)
Sequence familiar objects and events (ACHHS031)
Distinguish between the past, present and future (ACHHS032)
Pose questions about the past using sources provided (ACHHS033)
Explore a range of sources about the past (ACHHS034)
Explore a range of sources about the past (ACHHS035)
Explore a point of view (ACHHS036)
Develop a narrative above the past (ACHHS037)
Use a range of communication forms (Oral, Graphic, written, role play) and digital technologies (ACHHS038)

Elaborations

Leisure during the times of parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods may be similar to or different in some ways of the leisure time of the present
Communication during the times of parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods may be similar to or different in some ways from the communication of the present
Family traditions are an important part of the history of a family

Key inquiry questions

How has family life changed or remained the same over time?
How do we describe the sequence of time?

Historical concepts

Continuity
Change
Perspectives
Significance

Three student activity pages which consist of:

a stimulus text to inform students about the theme and to promote discussion
an activity page related directly to the text but requiring research, evaluative comprehension and application of historical skills
an additional activity page which may be either a continuation of the previous page or an extension activity related to the topic but not directly related to the text
a fact file on each of the two activity pages that provides an interesting or unusual fact related to the topic

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