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Unit Overview
Unit Title
Yours, Mine & Ours
Duration
5 weeks
Unit Outline
The Foundation curriculum provides students with the study of personal and family histories.
It allows students to learn about their own family and the history that entails. This unit will
allow students in the Foundation year level to explore and engage in lessons that are
structured around the Historical Knowledge and understanding of their own families as well as
being given the opportunity to explore other diverse families in the class. Students will then
become participants in their own history, and build on their knowledge and understanding of
how the past is different from the present.
Key Inquiry Question/s
Historical
Knowledge and
Understanding
Personal and
family histories
Historical Skills
Chronology,
terms and
concepts
Sequence familiar
objects and events
(ACHHS015)
Literacy connections:
Who the people in their family are, where they were born and raised and how
they are related to each other (ACHHK001)
Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing
Comprehend texts
Numeracy Connections:
By the end of the Foundation year, students identify similarities and differences
between families. They recognise how important family events are
commemorated.
Students sequence familiar events in order. They pose questions about their
past. Students relate a story about their past using a range of texts.
Learning experiences:
Tune-in
Explore
Explore
Look
Teaching Approaches
and Resources
Instructional
Learning
Enquiry based
learning.
Scaffolded
questions.
Book.
ICT clip and song.
Teachers family
picture.
Scaffolded
questions.
Concept map.
Family tree.
Family words on
apples.
Paper.
Pencil.
Colours pencils.
Instructional
learning
Inquiry based
learning
Journalist
questions
Instructional
learning
Inquiry based
learning
Look
Sort
Sort
Test
Instructional
learning
Inquiry based
learning
Students family
photos
Drawings
Family wall poster
Blu tack, scissors,
glue
Instructional
learning
Scaffolding
Artefacts
Paper
Pencils
The second Sort lesson is the lesson that ties all the
information together. This is the final lesson where
students discover and explore the content knowledge
in this unit. In this lesson students engage in many
different learning areas; ICT, numeracy and literacy.
The activities offered build on the skills students
would be using in other learning area lessons, such
as; comprehending texts, understanding number.
Students experience a range of learning strategies in
this lesson through the use of rotations, for example,
students explore different cultures, listen to a song
using an Ipad and make meaning of the text,
sequence their families using visual cues and listen to
a book about families and make connections to their
own lives.
Instructional
learning
Inquiry based
learning
Scaffolded
questions
Laptop/iPad
ICT clip and song.
Family word
examples
Pencil and paper.
Picture books
Packs x 8
Family Cards
Instruction Cards
Instructional
learning
Inquiry based
learning
Act
Reflect
Assessment
Assessment
of learning
Assessment
for learning
Assessment
as learning
Inquiry based
learning
Scaffolded
questions
Reflecting
A3 sheet of paper
Green paper leaves
Stick (tree trunk)
Glue
Coloured Pencils
Student-centred
learning
Scaffolded
questions
Family Song
Students Family
Trees