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Humanities and Social Sciences

Year 1

Above satisfactory

Past and present

Summary of task

Students recorded, with teacher guidance, a definition of ‘the past’ and a definition of ‘the present’. Following class discussion, and teacher provision of examples, students drew pictures and wrote explanatory texts to support each definition. Students then completed a series of activities to support the development of critical thinking about their own past and present. First, students recorded the contents of their school bags. Students then completed two Venn diagrams to identify the similarities and differences between bedrooms in the past and present, and classrooms in the past and present. These activities took place in class with teacher guidance over a period of two weeks.

Achievement standard

By the end of Year 1, students identify and describe important dates and changes in their own lives. They explain how some aspects of daily life have changed over recent time while others have remained the same. They identify and describe the features of places and their location at a local scale and identify changes to the features of places. They recognise that people describe the features of places differently and describe how places can be cared for.

Students respond to questions about the recent past and familiar and unfamiliar places by collecting and interpreting information and data from observations and from sources provided. They sequence personal and family events in order and represent the location of different places and their features on labelled maps. They reflect on their learning to suggest ways they can care for places. They share stories about the past, and present observations and findings using everyday terms to denote the passing of time and to describe direction and location.

Students sequence personal and family events in order, using everyday terms about the passing of time. They respond to questions about the past using sources provided. Students relate stories about life in the past, using a range of texts.

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Records, classifies and compares information about their known world

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Records an aspect of daily life to support a simple definition of the past
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Subject - History
Records an aspect of daily life to support a simple definition of the past

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Learning Area
Records an aspect of daily life to support a simple definition of the present
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Subject - History
Records an aspect of daily life to support a simple definition of the present

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Learning Area
Records a list of artefacts associated with own life
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Subject - History
Records a list of artefacts associated with own life

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Learning Area
Categorises a range of objects from the past and present
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Learning Area
Categorises a range of objects from the past and present
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Learning Area
Identifies a range of objects that have changed and that have stayed the same
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Subject - History
Identifies a range of objects that have changed and that have stayed the same

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Subject - History
Categorises a range of objects from the past and present
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Learning Area
Categorises a range of objects from the past and present
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Learning Area
Identifies a range of objects that have changed and that have stayed the same
4
Learning Area
Identifies a range of objects that have changed and that have stayed the same