Year 4 Australian Curriculum HASS- Community & Government - Civics & Citizenship

In this Year 4 unit, students explore their local community and government including laws, rules and groups, 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 (16 pages)

♦ Resources (33 pages)

♦ Editable PowerPoint Presentation (79 pages)

♦ Editable Grading Guide (1 page)

♦ Editable learning intentions and success criteria

Version 9 Outcomes covered:

Civics and Citizenship:

The differences between “rules” and “laws”, why laws are important and how they affect the lives of people (AC9HS4K07)

The roles of local government and how members of the community use and contribute to local services (AC9HS4K08)

Diversity of cultural, religious and/or social groups to which they and others in the community belong, and their importance to identity (AC9HS4K09)

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:

Civics and Citizenship: The role of local government and the decisions it makes on behalf of the community (ACHASSK091)

The differences between ‘rules’ and ‘laws’, why laws are important and how they affect the lives of people, including experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (ACHASSK092)

The different cultural, religious and/or social groups to which they and others in the community belong (ACHASSK093)

Inquiry Skills: ACHASSI073, ACHASSI074, ACHASSI075, ACHASSI076, ACHASSI077, ACHASSI078, ACHASSI079, ACHASSI080, ACHASSI081 and ACHASSI082

Included are:

♦ Editable planner (6 pages)

♦ Worksheets + Answer Keys (18 pages)

♦ Resources (11 pages)

♦ Editable PowerPoint Presentation (87 pages)

♦ Editable Grading Guide (1 page)

♦ Editable learning intentions and success criteria

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