Concept-Based Question-Based Subject-Based (Science)

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Aus Curriculum Map

Year 2 · Question Based Investigations

	Personal, Social and Community Health Australian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Health and Physical Education / Personal, Social and Community Health	Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys	Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place	Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions	Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
	Being healthy, safe and active
•	Describe physical and social changes that occur as children grow older and discuss how family and community acknowledge these ACPPS016			1
•	Practise strategies they can use when they feel uncomfortable, unsafe or need help with a task, problem or situation ACPPS017			1
•	Recognise situations and opportunities to promote health, safety and wellbeing ACPPS018			1
	Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing
•	Describe ways to include others to make them feel they belong ACPPS019	1
•	Identify and practise emotional responses that account for own and others’ feelings ACPPS020			1
•	Examine health messages and how they relate to health decisions and behaviours ACPPS021			1

Inquiry and skills

Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys

Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place

Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions

Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Analysing

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Compare objects from the past with those from the present and consider how places have changed over time ACHASSI023

	Knowledge and Understanding Australian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Humanities and Social Sciences / HASS / Knowledge and Understanding	Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys	Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place	Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions	Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
	History
•	Differences and similarities between students' daily lives and life during their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods ACHASSK030	1
•	The history of a significant person, building, site and/or part of the natural environment in the local community and what it reveals about the past ACHASSK044		1
•	The importance today of a historical site of cultural or spiritual significance in the local area, and why it should be preserved ACHASSK045		1
•	How changing technology affected people’s lives (at home and in the ways they worked, travelled, communicated and played in the past) ACHASSK046	1
	Geography
•	The places people live in and belong to, their familiar features and why they are important to people ACHASSK015		1
•	The Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Country/Place on which the school is located and why Country/Place is important to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples ACHASSK016		1
•	The reasons why some places are special to people, and how they can be looked after ACHASSK017		1
•	Activities in the local place and reasons for their location ACHASSK033		1
•	The idea that places are parts of Earth’s surface that have been named by people, and how places can be defined at a variety of scales ACHASSK048		1

	Design and Technologies Australian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Technologies / Design and Technologies	Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys	Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place	Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions	Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
	Design and Technologies Knowledge and Understanding
•	Identify how people design and produce familiar products, services and environments and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs ACTDEK001	1			1
•	Explore the characteristics and properties of materials and components that are used to produce designed solutions ACTDEK004	1			1
	Design and Technologies Processes and Production Skills
•	Explore needs or opportunities for designing, and the technologies needed to realise designed solutions ACTDEP005	1
•	Generate, develop and record design ideas through describing, drawing and modelling ACTDEP006	1
•	Use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions ACTDEP007	1
•	Use personal preferences to evaluate the success of design ideas, processes and solutions including their care for environment ACTDEP008	1
•	Sequence steps for making designed solutions and working collaboratively ACTDEP009	1

	Science Understanding Australian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Science / Science Understanding	Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys	Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place	Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions	Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
	Biological sciences
•	Living things grow, change and have offspring similar to themselves ACSSU030			1
	Chemical sciences
•	Everyday materials can be physically changed in a variety of ways ACSSU018	1			1
	Earth and space sciences
•	Earth’s resources are used in a variety of ways ACSSU032				1

Science as a Human Endeavour

Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys

Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place

Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions

Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Use and influence of science

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People use science in their daily lives, including when caring for their environment and living things ACSHE022

Science Inquiry Skills

Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys

Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place

Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions

Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Planning and conducting

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Use informal measurements to collect and record observations, using digital technologies as appropriate ACSIS026

Understanding ethical concepts and issues

Question-Based Investigations: Together Through Toys

Question-Based Investigations: Connection to Place

Question-Based Investigations: Managing Emotions

Question-Based Investigations: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Recognise ethical concepts

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identify ethical concepts arising in familiar contexts, such as good and bad behaviours