General

General resources that support the teaching of Human Society and Its Environment from K-6.

Kinder

Happy, healthy, safe classrooms, sharing, friendships, rules, likes and dislikes, school maps, places at school, school surroundings, Australian flag, Aboriginal flag, people who help me at school.

Physical characteristics, human Body, families, family life, growing and changing, cultural diversity, celebrations, feelings.

Streets, houses, schools, land use, school safety, home safety.

Needs and wants, food, safety, homes, clothing, love, shopping, farming, pets, toys, friendships.

Year 1,2

Work, needs and wants, family roles, roles and responsibilities, school roles, community roles, police, public transport, volunteers, jobs.

Transport links, affects of transport, transport systems, benefits of transport, transport problems, transport safety, pedestrian safety, bicycle safety, bus safety, train safety, air safety.

Celebrations, special events, cultural events, special days, feast days, national holidays, national celebrations, elements of a celebration, reasons for celebrations, how do celebrations effect people, organising special events.

Family history, oral history, family artefacts, family stories, recounts.

Religious symbols, sporting symbols, national symbols, belonging to a group, community groups, religions, sporting groups, interest groups.

Shelter, homes, houses, traditional aboriginal shelter, effects on the environment, conservation, environmental protection, energy use, logging, farming, land clearing.

Stages of life, life changes, toys through history, change in technology, change in communication technology.

Natural environments, geography, wetlands, deserts, changing environments, water use, water conservation.

Year 3,4

Elements of communities, identifying communities, sharing communities, local government, community interdependence, community citizenship, community membership.

Australian geography, New South Wales geography, significant sites, heritage sites, sacred sites, change in sites.

Traditional Aboriginal life in New South Wales, Aboriginal history, Australian History, timelines, Eora tribe, Pemulwuy, Australian explorers, First Fleet, settlers, convicts, consequences of colonisation for Aboriginal people.

Lives of Aboriginal people prior to 1788, Aboriginal oral histories, Aboriginal communities, Australian archeology.

Religious beliefs, spiritual beliefs, famous Australians, Religions in Australia, Aboriginal religious beliefs, comparing religions.

Use of parks, mapping parks in Australia, state forests, old-growth forests, Aboriginal sites, park management.

Elements of communities, identifying communities, sharing communities, local government, interdependence, citizenship, membership, community celebrations, Aboriginal communities, Aboriginal languages.

Shopping, basic needs and wants, shops and businesses, production, distribution, recycling, reducing waste.

Year 5,6

Discovery of gold in Australia, life on the goldfields, effects of gold discovery, influence on Australian identity and heritage of goldrush era, goldrush towns, effects of gold mining on the environment then and now.

Change in Australian culture, Multiculturalism, benefits and tensions of cultural diversity, national identity.

Principles of democracy, democratic rights, democratic history, Australian citizenship, human rights, immigration.

Local, State and Federal Government, responsibilities of different levels of government, separation of powers, parliamentary systems.

Features of rainforests, rainforest protection, maintaining and managing rainforests, rainforest distribution, human impact on rainforests.

Global interdependence, import and export industries, trade, travel, global communication, communication systems.

Features of Antarctica, human impact, exploration, tourism, research, meteorological research, whaling, fishing, conservation and environmental protection.

Traditional culture, maintaining culture, cultural change, effects of globalisation.

Themes

Marine Parks, protecting estuaries, ocean environments, human interaction with the sea.