AC9HS1K03 Year 1 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 Humanities and Social Sciences provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

the natural, managed and constructed features of local places, and their location

Elaborations

• 1 identifying natural features (for example, hills, rivers, native vegetation and weather), managed features (for example, farms, parks and gardens) and constructed features (for example, roads and buildings) and locating them on a map
• 2 listening to and viewing Dreaming and Creation stories of First Nations Australians that identify the natural features of a place
• 3 listing the different types of buildings in their local area; for example, houses, shops, offices, factories, religious buildings and farm buildings
• 4 describing the daily and seasonal weather of their place using simple terms such as “rainy”, “hot”, “cold”, “windy” and “cloudy”, and comparing it with the weather of other places that they know or are aware of; for example, “It was windy at the beach but not at my house”, “It is colder on the mountain”, “It is rainy in the winter”, “It is hot in the summer”
• 5 explaining to classmates where places are and the directions to be followed when moving from one place to another, with the use of appropriate terms for direction and location; for example, terms such as “beside”, “forward”, “up”, “down”, “by”, “near”, “further”, “close to”, “before”, “after”, “here”, “there”, “at”

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