Australian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Humanities and Social Sciences / HASS / Inquiry and skills / Researching
Locate and collect information and data from different sources, including observations (ACHASSI053)
Our Island Home Connections Preview Unit |
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Scientific Connections: Places and Climates
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will use computers to lookup climate information about places around the world. |
First Contact Community Preview Unit |
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Cultures of The First Peoples of Australia
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will be immersed into the cultures and traditional lifestyles of the First Peoples of Australia. |
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A Convict's Life: Reasons for the Journey
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will research stories of convicts who were on the First Fleet. |
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Researching an Artefact: Europeans
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will work in pairs to design an artefact that a convict or marine would have used in their day-to-day life and write a journal entry from the perspective of this person. |
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Future Action
· Future Action and Independent Inquiry
Your students will develop a plan to research a community group. |
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Pretest
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will complete a pretest about being a historian and what we know about what life was like in the past. |
The Blue Marble Sustainability Preview Unit |
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The Rainforest
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will watch a video about the Amazon rainforest and draw the area of the Amazon rainforest on a map of South America. |
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National Park Excursion
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will go on an excursion to a national park. |
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Conservation Campaign: Researching An Endangered Animal
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will research an endangered animal in preparation for designing a campaign to raise awareness of the challenges that the endangered animal faces. |
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Planning An Independent Inquiry
· Future Action and Independent Inquiry
Your students will plan an inquiry into an aspect of this unit that they would like to learn more about. |
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Conducting An Independent Inquiry
· Future Action and Independent Inquiry
Your students will practise the skills of questioning, research and working independently as they conduct an inquiry into a topic that they have learnt about during this unit. |
The Buzz About Bees Question-Based Investigations Preview Unit |
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Assessment
· Synthesis Phase
You will conduct a conference with each student to assess their understanding of the content they have learnt during their research. |
Australia's Neighbours Question-Based Investigations Preview Unit |
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Assessment
· Synthesis Phase
You will conduct a conference with each student to assess their understanding of the content they have learnt during their research. |
Into the Unknown Change Preview Unit |
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Habit of Mind: Gathering Data Through All Senses
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will be introduced to the habit of 'Gathering Data Through All Senses'. |
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Changes In Our Community
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn to identify and describe continuity and change as they study historic buildings in their local area. |