Structure:

- HaSS: Inquiry and skills:

Including skills of questioning, researching, communicating, analysing, evaluating and
reflecting.

HaSS and D&T in a Subject of History introduced:

With inquiry questions such as “How has family life changed and remained the same over
time?”
Nutshell – Year 1 Subject of Geography introduced:
With inquiry questions such as “What are the features of places?”

(Sourced from: - D&T: Knowledge and understanding:

Including the use, “development and impact of technologies in people’s lives” and
“technologies and design across a range of technologies contexts”.
ACARA 2016) Processes and production skills:
Including “investigating and defining, generating and designing, producing and implementing,
evaluating and collaborating, and managing”.

Learning Connections: Content:

HaSS : - Personal identity
- “Identification and description of important dates”, “Features of place and their - Sense of belonging
location at a local scale”. - Community values and citizenship
- “Identification of changes of the features of places” - Their location and world map
- “Explanation of how aspects of their life have changed over time”.
- “Responding to questions about recent past”. - “Opportunities to experience designing and
- “Collecting and interpreting data from observations and from sources provided”. producing products, services and environments.
- “Representation of location on a map”. This may occur through integrated learning”.
- “Labelling maps and presenting findings by either written, oral, or graphic modes”. - “Explore and investigate technologies”.
Technology: - “Society and environmental sustainability”.
- “By the end of early years students describe the purpose of familiar products, services - “Using a range of technologies: students draw,
and environments”. model and explain design ideas; label drawings;
- “Listing features of technology that influence design descisions”. draw objects as two-dimensional images from
- “Identifying how digital systems are used”. different views; draw products and simple
- “Collecting, sorting and displaying data from a variety of sources, and producing design environments and verbalise design ideas”.
solutions”.