Places and Spaces
Elements of Community
Rationale
By understanding what services are available in my community and the way my community has been designed, I can get the most out of living in it.
Investigation Into
- Services within my community
- Design and construction techniques for buildings
- Building with sustainability in mind
Essential Questions
- What services are in my community?
- How can I use a map to navigate my community?
- Who in my community can help me in an emergency?
- How can we build with sustainability in mind?
Future Action
Your students will develop an interest in their local community and the services that it provides. They will appreciate the role that emergency service providers fill in our community and be clear and confident when communicating in an emergency. Your students will develop a curiosity about the design and construction of sustainable buildings.
Pretesting and Familiarisation
The Concept of Community
Your students will be immersed into the concept of community as they consider how animals and people help each other in communities.
Your students will be immersed into the concept of community as they consider how animals and people help each other in communities.
Immersion
Your students will use craft materials to create something that they saw during a walk around their local community.
Your students will use craft materials to create something that they saw during a walk around their local community.
Pretest
Your students will complete a pretest about what they know about their community.
Your students will complete a pretest about what they know about their community.
Introducing the Unit
Your students will learn what they will be doing during this learning sequence.
Your students will learn what they will be doing during this learning sequence.
Glossary about Community
Your students will be introduced to some of the words they will be using during this learning sequence.
Your students will be introduced to some of the words they will be using during this learning sequence.
Habit of Mind: Persisting
Your students will learn about the Habit of Mind of 'Persisting'.
Your students will learn about the Habit of Mind of 'Persisting'.
Habit of Mind: Thinking & Communicating with Clarity & Precision
Your students will be introduced to the Habit of Mind 'Thinking & Communicating with Clarity & Precision'.
Your students will be introduced to the Habit of Mind 'Thinking & Communicating with Clarity & Precision'.
Learning Opportunities
Learning about Our Community: Developing Questions
Your students will develop questions about a local business.
Your students will develop questions about a local business.
Learning about Our Community: Guest Speaker
Your students will ask questions that they developed during the previous task.
Your students will ask questions that they developed during the previous task.
Emergency Service Providers
Your students will learn about emergency service provides and when to call triple zero.
Your students will learn about emergency service provides and when to call triple zero.
Designing My Magnet
Your students will design a magnet for an emergency service.
Your students will design a magnet for an emergency service.
Making My Magnet
Your students will use their designs to make a magnet to take home.
Your students will use their designs to make a magnet to take home.
Staying Safe and Healthy
Your students will consider health messages and how to keep themselves safe and healthy.
Your students will consider health messages and how to keep themselves safe and healthy.
Sustainable Features
Your students will learn about ways that we can build places that are better for the environment.
Your students will learn about ways that we can build places that are better for the environment.
Direction and Location of Places
Your students will learn how to describe the location of places on a map.
Your students will learn how to describe the location of places on a map.
Learning About Our Community: Services In Our Community
Your students will use a map to locate services in their community.
Your students will use a map to locate services in their community.
Our Craft Community: Planning Our Precinct
Your students will work in groups to plan a new precinct for their community.
Your students will work in groups to plan a new precinct for their community.
Our Craft Community: Building Our Models
Your students will work in groups to construct models of three buildings that they have designed for their precinct.
Your students will work in groups to construct models of three buildings that they have designed for their precinct.
Our Craft Community: The Question Key
Your students will learn how to develop questions to match a specific answer.
Your students will learn how to develop questions to match a specific answer.
Our Craft Community: Preparing to Share
Your students will develop questions about their precinct in preparing for a visit from older students.
Your students will develop questions about their precinct in preparing for a visit from older students.
Demonstration of Understanding
Our Craft Community: Sharing Our Models
Your students will share their models with older students and answer questions about how they built their models.
Your students will share their models with older students and answer questions about how they built their models.
Future Action
Future Action
Your students will consider which services they would most like to visit in their community.
Your students will consider which services they would most like to visit in their community.