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Year 1 HASS

How my world is different from the past and can change in the future The Year 1 curriculum provides a study of the recent past, the present and the near future within the context of the student’s own world. Students are given opportunities to explore …

Year 1 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

History Achievement Standard HASS Year 1

By the end of Year 1, students identify and describe important dates and changes in their own lives. They explain how some aspects of daily life have changed over recent time while others have remained the same. Students sequence personal and family …

Geography Achievement Standard HASS Year 1

By the end of Year 1, students identify and describe the natural, managed and constructed features of places at a local scale and identify where features of places are located. They recognise that people describe the features of places differently. Students …

HASS Achievement Standard HASS Year 1

By the end of Year 1, students identify and describe important dates and changes in their own lives. They explain how some aspects of daily life have changed over recent time while others have remained the same. They identify and describe the features …

Elaboration (2) ACHASSI018

preparing questions for parents and members of older generations about how they lived in the past, where they lived and the places they value

Elaboration (2) ACHASSI019

using geographical tools (for example, photographs taken from the air, Google Earth or digital image searches) to locate and identify the different features of places and how they have changed over time, including places with largely natural features …

Elaboration (2) ACHASSI020

recording data about the location of places and their features on maps and/or plans (for example, labelling the location of their home and daily route to school on a map of the local area, drawing a plan of their classroom and labelling its activity …

Elaboration (2) ACHASSI023

exploring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories, traditional and contemporary, about places and the past and how places have changed

Elaboration (2) ACHASSI024

finding a hidden item using a map or plan that shows its location

Elaboration (2) ACHASSI025

imagining what the future may hold based on what they know of the past and present (for example, envisioning what the town they live in might look like in the near future by comparing photographs of the past with their observation of the present) or envisaging …

Elaboration (2) ACHASSI026

discussing how their behaviours reflect what they have learnt about caring for important places and significant sites (for example, taking care around school wildlife, turning off taps and lights, following etiquettes in special sites)

Elaboration (2) ACHASSI027

using terms to denote the sequence of time (for example, ‘then’, ‘now’, ‘yesterday’, ‘today’, ‘past’, ‘present’, ‘later on’, ‘before I was born’, ‘in the future’ and ‘generations’)

Elaboration (2) ACHASSK028

examining and commenting on the roles of family members over time (for example, listening to stories about the roles of mothers, fathers, caregivers and children in the past) and comparing these with family roles today (for example, work at home, work …

Elaboration (2) ACHASSK029

identifying dates and changes that have personal significance (for example, birth dates, moving house, changing schools, religious and school holidays), marking these on a calendar and counting down time, as well as noting that events of personal significance …

Elaboration (2) ACHASSK031

using observations and/or photographs to identify changes in natural, managed and constructed features in their place (for example, recent erosion, revegetated areas, planted crops or new buildings)

Elaboration (2) ACHASSK033

exploring activities in the local rivers, lakes and coastal waters and identifying constructed features (for example, Aboriginal eel traps, jetties, shark nets, fish farms)

Elaboration (1) ACHASSI018

asking questions before, during and after listening to stories about people and places and about their past and present

Elaboration (1) ACHASSI019

gathering evidence of change in a local place (for example, by comparing current observations of a place with photographs of it taken in the past)

Elaboration (1) ACHASSI020

making artefact and photo displays to show the features of a place (for example, collections of natural and constructed things from the environment) or to show the passing of time (for example, collections of things used when growing older, toys used …

Elaboration (1) ACHASSI021

describing what they see as they move from one point to another (for example, going from home to school, from the classroom to the library)

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