HSIE

Unit Title: Travelling to special places

Content Area: Environments, Built
Environments, Products and Services,
Term: 3 Stage: ES1S1
!uration: " #ee$s
%ualit& Teac'ing Elements
Intellectual %ualit& %ualit& (earning Environment Signi)icance
Deep Knowledge Explicit Quality Criteria Background Knowledge
Deep Understanding Engagement Cultural Knowledge
Problematic Knowledge High Expectations Knowledge ntegration
Higher order thinking !ocial !upport nclusi"ity
#etalanguage !tudents$ !el%&'egulation Connectedness
!ubstanti"e Communication !tudent Direction (arrati"e
SciTec' *utcomes HSIE *utcomes Big Ideas +oundation Statements
BE ES1,1
Explores and identi%ies ways in
which built en"ironments suit their
users)
!- ES1,.
*enerates own ideas and designs
through trial and error+ play+
modelling and making)
UT ES1,"
denti%ies and uses a limited range
o% e,uipment+ computer&based
technology+ materials and other
resources when undertaking
exploration and production)
E/ES1
*athers in%ormation about natural
and built en"ironments and
communicates some o% the ways in
which they interact with+ and can
care %or+ these en"ironments)
Places and spaces are created %or
a wide "ariety o% purposes
HSIE
!tudents use language associated
with and place) -hey ac,uire
in%ormation by direct obser"ation+
talking to others+ and by "iewing+
reading and listening to texts)
!tudents identi%y and explore
%amiliar natural and built
en"ironments+ and the acti"ities
that occur in them) -hey
communicate knowledge and
understanding orally+ through
writing and drawing+ and by
constructing models)
SciTec'
!tudents explore their immediate
en"ironment by using the senses+
,uestioning+ sharing ideas and
identi%ying simple cause&and&
e%%ect relationships) !tudents
explore ideas+ manipulate materials
and trial designs through play to
de"elop products and built
en"ironments) -hey identi%y and
sa%ely use some e,uipment and
computer&based technology to
model and make things) !tudents
identi%y ways in which %amiliar
products+ ser"ices and built
en"ironments meet the needs o%
people) !tudents identi%y the
characteristics o% a range o%
materials used to make commonly
a"ailable products and built
en"ironments)
'esources
.re /e -here 0et1 .lison 2ester
*oogle maps
/ordle
Backward Mapping
Student Ac'ievement 3/hat do
want them to know14
!ome special places are natural and some are built)
-here are many %orms o% transport)
!ome special places are natural and some are built)
/e use special places %or many reasons)
-here are many %orms o% transport)
5orms o% transport are used %or "arious reasons
-ain Assessment Tas$
3Create a rubric %or this task 6 how well
do want them to know it14
#ake a poster o% a special place they ha"e "isited and present it to the class)
Design and make a 7D model o% a special place
Design a diary or a brochure o% a holiday to a special place)
Design and make a 7D model o% special place
(ESS*/ SE%UE/CE
0esources Activities
0eg (iterac& and
Tec'nolog&
+ocus
0egistration
Enlarged map o%
.ustralia
8igsaw o% .ustralia
(otebook %ile
(esson 1
ntroduce a map o% .ustralia)
2ocate and name the state and capital territories)
2ocate and name the capital cities)
.llow students to discuss places they ha"e "isited+ heard o%)
(otebook %ile& students place states on map o% .ustralia
Complete 9igsaw to match states to make .ustralia) *lue in book) 2abel states)
(otebook& 9igsaw to make .ustralia)
#apping
2abelling
Discussion
.re we there yet1
.lison 2ester
(otebook map o%
.ustralia and its
%eatures
-able o% special places
atlases
(esson 1
'e"ise the states and territories o% .ustralia)
.dd states+ territories+ capital cities to word wall)
ntroduce .re /e -here 0et1 Discuss this story is a recount o% a holiday)
Discuss that the students are going to do a recount o% one o% their holidays)
!how the co"er) How are the %amily tra"elling:
!how the map o% .ustralia) Discuss the route the %amily took)
'ead page ; and <)
Discuss the labelling+ diagrams+ cross& sections+ captions)
2ocate Binnum 3starting point4 in atlas and on *oogle maps)
.dd Binnum to word wall
2abel the map o% .ustralia 3(otebook4
/ordle
-able
mages
#apping
'ead page 7 and =
2ocate Coorong in atlas and on *oogle maps)
>bser"e images and wordle)
Discuss the special %eatures o% -he Coorong and add to table
!tart a table 3in links4
!pecial Place !tate 5eature (atural or
built
-ransport
2ocate 5linders 'angers in atlas and *oogle maps
2ocate !treaky bay)
2ocate -he (ullabor Plains
2ocate *reat .ustralian Bight and Head o% Bight)
.re we there yet1
.lison 2ester
(otebook map o%
.ustralia and its
%eatures
-able o% special places
atlases
8igsaw pu??le
(otebook %ile
(esson 3
2abel maps o% .ustralia in book
Draw table in book showing names o% !tates and -erritories and capital
cities)
Complete 9igsaw pu??le o% map o% .ustralia)
Complete (otebook 9igsaw pu??le and label the states and territories)
Continue reading
2ocate Eucla+ wa"e 'ock+ 'ottnest island
-able
/ordle
-able
mages
#apping
Card with
state:territory and
capital cities
(esson 2
Play matching game) *i"e each child a card with a state:territory and a
capital city) /alk around the room calling out the name on the card+ until they
%ind their pair)
Play (otebook game matching !tates:-erritories with Capital Cities
*i"e out assessment tasks and explain to the students
#atching game
Poster
Brochure
Diary
#apping
Pro"ide time %or students to consider the special place they wish to
in"estigate)
Continue reading the 9ourney and mapping
& (esson 3
*ame& /hich !pecial Place .m 1 Choose a student to gi"e clues to one o%
the special places we ha"e "isited on our 9ourney) -hey may use the terms
natural and built+ the special %eatures+ the suitable transport) 3-@2
assessment4
!tudents to plan assessment tasks
Continue reading the 9ourney and mapping
(esson 45
Continue working on assessment tasks
Continue reading the 9ourney and mapping
& (esson .
n"ite parents to come and watch the presentation o% the assessments