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Australian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Humanities and Social Sciences / HASS / Inquiry and skills / Researching

Locate and collect information and data from different sources, including observations (ACHASSI074)

First Contact Community Preview Unit
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.
A Convict's Life: Reasons for the Journey · Learning Opportunities Your students will research stories of convicts who were on the First Fleet.
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.
Future Action · Future Action and Independent Inquiry Your students will develop a plan to research a community group.
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.

Our Island Home Connections Preview Unit
Scientific Connections: Places and Climates · Learning Opportunities Your students will use computers to lookup climate information about places around the world.

The Blue Marble Sustainability Preview Unit
National Park Excursion · Learning Opportunities Your students will go on an excursion to a national park.
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.

Into the Unknown Change Preview Unit
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'.
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.