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Year 1 and 2 CONTENT DESCRIPTIONS
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: HISTORY
YEAR 1
Key concepts: continuity and
change, perspectives,
empathy and significance
How has family life changed or
remained the same over time?
How can we show that the
present is different from or similar
to the past?
How do we describe the
sequence of time?
Differences in family structures and
roles today, and how these have
changed or remained the same over
time (ACHASSK028 - Scootle )
How the present, past and future
are signified by terms indicating
time, as well as by dates and
changes that may have
personal significance, such as
birthdays, celebrations and
seasons (ACHASSK029 - Scootle )
Differences and similarities
between students' daily lives and
life during their parents’ and
grandparents’
childhoods (ACHASSK030 - Scootle )
1 2 3 4
YEAR 2
Key concepts: continuity and
change, cause and effect,
perspectives,
empathy and significance
What aspects of the past
can you see today? What do they
tell us?
What remains of the past
are important to the local
community? Why?
How have changes in
technology shaped our daily life
The history of a significant
person, building, site and/or part
of the natural environment in the
local community and what it
reveals about the past
(ACHASSK044 - Scootle )
The importance today of a
historical site of cultural or
spiritual significance in the local area,
and why it should be preserved
(ACHASSK045 - Scootle )
How changing technology affected
people’s lives (at home and in the
ways they worked, travelled,
communicated and played in the
past) (ACHASSK046 - Scootle )
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Geography
Key concepts: place, space,
environment and change.
What are the different
features of places?
How can we care for
places?
How have the features of
places changed
The natural, managed and
constructed features of places, their
location, how they change and
how they can be cared for
(ACHASSK031 - Scootle )
The weather and seasons of
places and the ways in which
different cultural groups, including
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Peoples, describe them
(ACHASSK032 - Scootle )
Activities in the local place and
reasons for their location
(ACHASSK033 - Scootle )
1 2 3 4
Geography
Key concepts: place, space,
environment and interconnection.
What is a place?
How are people connected
to their place and other places?
What factors affect my
connection to places?
The way the world is represented
in geographic divisions and the
location of Australia in relation to
these divisions (ACHASSK047 -
Scootle )
The idea that places are parts of
Earth’s surface that have been
named by people, and how places
can be defined at a variety of
scales (ACHASSK048 - Scootle )
The ways in which Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Peoples
maintain special connections to
particular Country/Place
(ACHASSK049 - Scootle )
The connections of people in
Australia to people in other places
in Australia and across the world
(ACHASSK050 - Scootle )
The influence of purpose, distance
and accessibility on the frequency
with which people visit places
(ACHASSK051 - Scootle )
Inquiry Skills
Questioning
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Year 1 and 2 CONTENT DESCRIPTIONS
Pose questions about past and
present objects, people, places
and events
(ACHASSI018 - Scootle )
Collect data and information from
observations and identify
information and data from sources
provided (ACHASSI019 - Scootle )
Sort and record information
and data, including location, in
tables and on plans and labelled
maps (ACHASSI020 - Scootle )
Sequence familiar objects and
events (ACHASSI021 - Scootle )
Explore a point of view
(ACHASSI022 - Scootle )
Compare objects from the past
with those from the present and
consider how places have
changed over time (ACHASSI023 -
Scootle )
Interpret data and information
displayed in pictures and texts
and on maps (ACHASSI024 -
Scootle )
Evaluating and reflecting
Draw simple conclusions based
on discussions, observations and
information displayed in pictures
and texts and on maps
(ACHASSI025 - Scootle )
1 2 3 4
Pose questions about past and
present objects, people, places
and events
(ACHASSI034 - Scootle )
Researching
Collect data and information from
observations and identify
information and data from sources
provided
(ACHASSI035 - Scootle )
Sort and record information
and data, including location, in
tables and on plans and labelled
maps (ACHASSI036 - Scootle )
Sequence familiar objects and
events (ACHASSI037 - Scootle )
Analysing
Explore a point of view
(ACHASSI038 - Scootle )
Compare objects from the past
with those from the present and
consider how places have
changed over time (ACHASSI039 -
Scootle )
Interpret data and information
displayed in pictures and texts
and on maps (ACHASSI040 -
Scootle )
Draw simple conclusions based
on discussions, observations and
information displayed in pictures
and texts and on maps
(ACHASSI041 - Scootle )
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Reflect on learning to propose Reflect on learning to propose

how to care for places and sites how to care for places and sites
that are important or significant that are important or significant
(ACHASSI026 - Scootle ) (ACHASSI042 - Scootle )

Communicating
Present narratives, information Present narratives, information
and findings in oral, graphic and and findings in oral, graphic and
written forms using simple terms written forms using simple terms
to denote the passing of time and to denote the passing of time and
to describe direction and location to describe direction and
(ACHASSI027 - Scootle ) location (ACHASSI043 - Scootle )
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