In this Year 4 unit, students become familiar with the Indigenous cultures of Australia, addressing aspects of the HASS Australian Curriculum.
✩ It is a 9-lesson unit (designed to be taught over a term) that contains all lesson resources including worksheets and posters.
✩ This HASS unit also contains an editable PowerPoint presentation that can be displayed during each lesson. It includes the learning intentions/success criteria, key discussion points, worksheets and display resources. This makes teaching every lesson even easier if your classroom has a T.V or Smartboard.
✩ The editable planner includes relevant Australian Curriculum links.
✩ The lessons are kept simple and succinct, five to six steps each, to help you save time. The clear instructions highlight the key points, allowing you to focus on the students and make the most of the learning opportunities.
✩ Mrs Amy123 is known for its fun and engaging lessons that involve a wide range of cooperative learning strategies. This means that some lessons will not feature worksheets, though many will.
✩ This unit also includes a grading guide that shows what each grade (A-E) would look like based on two activities from the unit. This document is also linked to the Achievement Standard for Year 4 HASS.
Included are:
♦ Editable planner (6 pages)
♦ Worksheets + Answer Keys (20 pages)
♦ Resources (27 pages)
♦ Editable PowerPoint Presentation (86 pages)
♦ Editable Grading Guide (1 page)
♦ Editable learning intentions and success criteria
Version 9 Outcomes covered:
History: The diversity of First Nations Australians, their social organisation and their continuous connection to Country/Place (AC9HS4K01)
The effects of contact with other people on First Nations Australians and their Countries/Places following the arrival of the First Fleet and how this was viewed by First Nations Australians as an invasion (AC9HS4K04)
Geography: Sustainable use and management of renewable and non-renewable resources, including the custodial responsibility First Nations Australians have for Country/Place (AC9HS4K06)
Civics & Citizenship: Diversity of cultural, religious and/or social groups to which they and others in the community belong, and their importance to identity (AC9HS4K09)
The differences between “rules” and “laws”, why laws are important and how they affect the lives of people (AC9HS4K07)
Inquiry Skills:
Questioning and research: Develop questions to guide investigation about people, events, places and issues (AC9HS4S01)
Locate, collect and record information and data from a range of sources, including annotated timelines and maps AC9HS4S02)
Interpreting, analysing and evaluating: Interpret information and data displayed in different formats (AC9HS4S03)
Analyse information and data, and identify perspectives (AC9HS4S04)
Concluding and decision-making: Draw conclusions based on analysis of information (AC9HS4S05)
Propose actions or responses to issues or challenge that consider possible effects of actions (AC9HS4S06)
Communicating: Present descriptions and explanations, using ideas from sources and relevant subject-specific terms (AC9HS4S07)
Version 8.4 Outcomes covered:
History: The diversity of Australia’s first peoples and the long and continuous connection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to Country/Place (land, sea, waterways and skies) (ACHASSK083)
The nature of contact between Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and others, for example, the Macassans and the Europeans, and the effects of these interactions on, for example families and the environment (ACHASSK086)
Geography: Aspects of: The custodial responsibility Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have for Country/Place, and how this influences views about sustainability (ACHASSK089)
Inquiry Skills: ACHASSI073, ACHASSI074, ACHASSI075, ACHASSI076, ACHASSI077, ACHASSI078, ACHASSI079, ACHASSI080, ACHASSI081 and ACHASSI082
✩ I do not identify as an Indigenous Australian and I encourage you to use resources made by Indigenous Australians for the teaching of their culture wherever possible. All profits made by this resource will be donated to organisations and charity helping Indigenous Australian children.
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