How are people connected to their place and other places, past or present?

connections between people and places

Imaginative informative texts

Persuasive texts

Harlem Grown book

They consider how they can contribute to their world by exploring perspectives on the historical, cultural or spiritual significance of a person, place and/or building

develop skills and processes to investigate the history of their local community and places across a range of scales

curiosity, imagination, problem-solving and researching

They resource their own learning through connecting with people, places and technologies.

use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving authentic situations by representing problems with physical and virtual materials, diagrams, and using different calculation strategies to find solutions

build the foundations for statistical inquiry by choosing questions based on their interests as they collect, represent, and interpret data, and recognise features of different representations

Survey of community about proposal

As they explore patterns and relationships, they use counting and informal measurements to make and compare observations and recognise that organising these observations in tables makes it easier to identify and represent patterns.

Informative tests

Excursion to Nature Reserve Centre

recognise that mathematics can be used to investigate things they are curious about, to solve practical problems and model everyday situations, describing their thinking and reasoning using familiar mathematical language

use uniform units to measure, compare and discuss the attributes of shapes and objects, and the duration of events

describe spatial relationships such as the relative position of objects represented within a two-dimensional space

regional / state / territory

Through studies of their local area, students explore, recognise and appreciate the history of their community, and what it reveals about significant people or places

What does my place tell me about the past and present?

Maps

My Place book

Everything and Everywhere book