Your students will consider their place in their community. They will begin by making a box creation that represents themselves, and then an icy pole stick family portrait to represent their place in their family. Your students will present what they know about their family to the rest of the class and learn how families are different. They will learn about how to stay safe and how to ask for help in their classroom, school and in the community.

Your students will learn about the services in their community. They will consider sustainable practices as they design and construct model buildings for a precinct in their community. Your students will learn about navigation as they consider the language of direction and location.

Your students will learn about the lives of the First Australians before European settlers arrived in Australia and the causes and reasons for the journey of the First Fleet. They will practise thinking and acting like historians as they are immersed in stories of first contact between Indigenous Australians and European Settlers.

Your students will learn about the values of Australian democracy and the key features of the electoral process. They will learn about the responsibilities of the three levels of government. Your students will learn about the Stolen Generations and the fight for equal rights in Australia. They will set personal and social goals and work as a class towards a common goal.

Your students will learn actions that they can take to help sustain the environment. They will learn when different fruits grow where they live and grow vegetables in their classroom. Your students will learn the difference between good rubbish and bad rubbish and consider sustainable ways that they can stay warm in winter and stay cool in summer.

Your students will learn how to reduce, reuse and recycle as they consider the importance of sustainability. They will conduct an experiment to see how long things take to decompose. Your students will develop personal sustainability goals as they consider the ethics of sustainability.

Your students will be immersed in the idea that the Earth is the only place that we know of which can sustain life. They will learn about living things and how they rely on the environment to survive. Students will learn about the life cycles of different animals and visit a National Park. They will research an endangered animal and participate in a Conservation Conference to raise awareness of the threats that the endangered animals faces and how people can help.

Your students will consider how to sustain the environment, the society and the economy. They will be immersed in the work of geographers as they consider how the data that they collect helps to inform sustainable actions. Your students will build a weather station to collect weather data at school. They will research a country in Europe or North America. They will present their research at the 'Tourism Expo' to convince visitors to come to their country.

Your students will learn about social justice through the lens of fairness and friendship. They will practise following classroom rules and family rules and they will consider appropriate actions in different places that they might visit. Your students will learn techniques to manage conflict and social skills to use when working in a team. They will show what they have learnt by completing a series of sentence starters in a one-on-one conference with their teacher.

Your students will be immersed in the food, games, music and traditions of different cultures. They will explore the meaning of traditions as they build objects and experience cultural traditions. At the end of each week, your students will reflect on their family's culture in preparation for sharing with other students at the end of the unit.

Your students learn about social justice issues experienced by people with disabilities. They learn about the role that rules and laws play in our community as they share their opinions about existing laws. Your students will research a disability and write creatively about an important day in the life of someone who has the disability that they have researched.

Your students will learn about the biggest problems facing children around the world. They will learn some persuasive techniques and work in groups to prepare and deliver a slideshow presentation encouraging people to support an aid agency. Your students will learn some literary devices and write a spoken word poem about a cause that they are supporting. They will perform their spoken word poem at the Slamming Social Justice Show.

Your students will practise thinking creatively and use their imagination as they explore traditional tales. They will learn words that describe the properties of different materials. Your students will practise using the Question Key and the BAR Key and apply these creative thinking tools to modify a traditional tale character. They will work in groups to build a puppet theatre to present a modified traditional tale at the Creativity Expo.

Your students will work to design and build a robot using craft materials. They will learn about the properties of different materials and consider which materials they should use to build their robot. Your students will practise striving for accuracy as they design and build new objects and write instructions for others to follow. They will practise thinking creatively and imaginatively as they use the Combination Key and the BAR key.

Your students will practise thinking creatively as they develop a simple story and characters, settings, and props for their story. They will draw a storyboard that depicts the most interesting scene from their story idea and use the storyboard to make a stop motion animation. Your students will build a set and a prop, and capture images for their stop motion animation. They will edit their animation using a computer and present their animation at the Creativity Expo.

Your students gain a real-life understanding of the design and production process when creating a brand new product. Each student produces an item that is marketed and then sold at a market called 'Bizarre Bazaar'. The item that is produced must be original. Proceeds of the market are then directed to the students' charity of choice.

Your students will set goals and give a short presentation about objects in their 'Identity Container'. They will learn about the identity of other students in the class as they create pictographs. Your students will learn about 'Sometimes' foods and 'Always' foods and consider how they use their bodies. The students will learn how to get help in the classroom and in the schoolyard and how to use objects safely.

Your students will learn about staying safe and taking responsible risks, healthy food, expressing their emotions clearly, and dealing with conflict. They will consider how they have changed in their life and reflect on the things that they will be able to do in the future.

Your students will consider ethics, customs, hobbies and sports, and people who are important in their lives as they develop cards to play in 'The Game Of Life'. They will learn which health messages in the media are safe to trust and how to say no when someone is pressuring them.

Your students will consider ethical dilemmas as they learn about the value of honesty, respect, and loyalty. They will consider the influence that the media and others have on them, and the impact that being a fan of someone or something has on our identity. Students will write a story that includes a moral lesson and share aspects of their identity during the 'Identity Expo'.

Your students will consider change through the lens of Science, Geography and History. They will consider how their community has changed over time, how the seasons change, and how living things change in order to survive.

Your students will consider changes that we experience in our lives through the lenses of biology, earth and space science, chemistry, and physics. They will make predictions and scientific observations throughout the unit. Your students will show what they have learnt by identifying 'science' in their classroom and record their understanding of each branch of science.

Your students will learn about changes over time and how those changes affect our lives. They will consider changes in their community as they explore historic buildings in the local area. Students will learn about people who shaped our interconnected world as they research the life and legacy of an explorer from the 'Age of Exploration'. They will also learn about the significance of celebrations and symbols in Australia and around the world.

Your students will learn about the concept of change through the lens of Australian history. They will learn about the causes and the reasons why people migrated to Australia from Europe and Asia. Students will learn about the events and people that have shaped our country as they work towards opening the Museum In Motion.

Your students will go on a journey of discovery as they are immersed into the properties and uses of different materials. They will experiment with building techniques as they make an aluminium foil boat and a bridge and explore the properties of fabric. Your students will share what they have made and what they have learnt and at a showcase.

Your students consider sources of light and how to create shadows. They will build instruments and use their bodies and computers as they experiment with making sounds. Your students will work towards presenting a production of a story using puppets and sounds.

Your students will be engaged in the practical application of physics and programming. They will learn how forces can be exerted on one object by another as they design and build a balloon-powered car. Your students will learn how to create simple programs using Scratch. They will create their own computer application and provide feedback to their classmates about their creations.

Your students will learn about light refraction, electrical circuits, states of matter, and the scale of the solar system through hands-on experiments and experiences. They will build a thermoscope, a paper circuit and a balloon-powered rocket. Your students will work towards creating a presentation and a quiz to highlight the wondrous facts that they have learnt during the unit.

Your students will learn about the different features of animals and how those features help them to live in their environment. Students will learn about Australian animals and consider how they can save water and protect native habitats. Your students will use their imagination to design an animal using parts of different animals. They will use basic cutting and pasting skills to create a model of their animal.

Your students will learn about the lives of people in the past as they interview a person from an older generation. They will learn words to describe events in the past, present, and future and words to describe a point of view. Your students will consider the importance of places to people in their community and people from different cultures. They will learn about sequences and different ways that stories from the past can be told.

Your students will be engaged in the connections of the Geographical world as they learn about different environments, climate zones and natural vegetation. They will learn about Australia's neighbouring countries and about changes caused by adding and removing heat, and heat conductivity. Your students will work in groups as they consider the location, climate, and values of their own artificial island nation.

Your students will consider the difference between needs and wants, the types of resources that we have, and how we use them, and the nature and meaning of work. They will be engaged in economics and business as they work in groups to develop a business plan that they will present to younger students in their school.