Year 4 HASS Australian Curriculum History Unit

Includes update to version 9 of the Australian Curriculum in addition to a version for 8.4. ✓ Editable Unit Planner ✓ Grading Guide ✓ Editable PowerPoint ✓ Worksheets ✓ Success Criteria/Learning Intentions

In this Year 4 unit, Australia as well as the effects on the First Nations Australians, 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.

✩ 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.

✩ 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 (5 pages)

♦ Worksheets + Answers (20 pages)

♦ Resources (33 pages)

♦ Editable Grading Guide (1 page)

♦ Editable learning intentions and success criteria

Version 9 Outcomes Covered:

History:

The causes of the establishment of the first British colony in Australia in 1788 (AC9HS4K02)

The experiences of individuals and groups, including military and civilian officials, and convicts involved in the establishment of the first British colony (AC9HS4K03)

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)

Inquiry Skills:

Questioning and research: Develop questions to guide investigations 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 challenges 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 journey(s) of AT LEAST ONE world navigator, explorer or trader up to the late eighteenth century, including their contacts with other societies and any impacts (ACHASSK084)

Stories of the First Fleet, including reasons for the journey, who travelled to Australia, and their experiences following arrival (ACHASSK085)

Geography: The main characteristics of continents of Africa and South America and the location of their major countries in relation to Australia (ACHASSK087)

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

Also please note, that SCSA (WA) lists Africa and Europe as the countries for year 4 which is different to the Australian Curriculum. Alternative resources have been included to alter some of the South America lesson to Europe but a separate planner is not included.

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