Science and Technology
-Students will look at how
technology has changed over time
and the impact it has had on daily
life.
-Students will compare the
changes to methods of
communication by writing and
comparing letters and emails.
-Students will create a simple robot -Analysing and recording the passage of time.
using a toy.
-Students will use modern day
technology such as iPads and
ScratchJr to take photographs and
record changes to a garden over the course
of the unit.
Creative Arts
-Students will explore and compare
changing styles of dance.
-Students will craft an olden style toy and
compare to modern toys.
-Students will engage with and respond to
changing styles of music over time.
Connection focus: Analysing and comparing change over time, employing basic
processes of historical inquiry, observing and comparing factors of daily life in past
and present, comparing the impact of changing technology over time.
Students will be engaged in:
-Brainstorming their own family history and family connections.
-Observing and comparing changes to written communication over time.
-Observing and recording changes to a garden during the unit using a journal.
PDHPE
Planned
-Discussing and comparing changesAssessment:
to daily life.
-Responding to changes -Analysis of and
in music student brainstorming
styles of dance. as
diagnostic assessment.
HSIE
-Creating an old style toy.
-Students will observe and compare the
-Using various forms of-Analysis & Evaluation
technology to engageofwithstudent letters
learning.
daily lives of people from the past to
and crafted toys.
the present.
-Analysis & Evaluation of student
-Use a range of sources including
journals.
photos and journals from the past to
-Observation of student engagement
inquire about change over time.
with dance.
-Compare their own family structures to
-Observation and analysis of
those from the past.
engagement with technology.
-Observe and discuss the impact
-Analysis of student records for the
garden and their timelines.
changing technology has had on daily
lives.
-Student reflection on changing daily life
-Pose questions and beginning inquiry
- Engaging and responding to changing
into why things have changed and how.
styles of music.
-Utilise methods of recording change
and he sequence of time.
-Students will engage with different
styles of dance and the various
movements and locomotor skills
required.
-In discussion of changing daily lives,
students will discuss how diet and
general health may have changed over
time.
-Students will discuss how technology
may have improved physical health
and wellbeing.