Core Learning Outcome

TCC 1.1

Students describe their past and their future using evidence from familiar settings.

Students know:

 

 

 

Evidence over time

 

evidence from familiar settings

·             artefacts

·             photographs

·             birth certificates

·             home videos

·             story books

·             family stories from family, friends and carers

·             personal recollections

their past

·             stories about e.g.

-          being born

-          growing

-          birthdays

-          family events

-          memorable incidents

-          achievements

their future

·             physical developments

·             abilities

·             interests

·             roles and responsibilities

·             hopes for the future and how to achieve them (to have friends, be friendly to others)

Students can:

 

 

 

Investigating

use evidence

·             recount family stories

·             explain photographs of themselves

·             compare measurements on personal growth chart

·             compare literature with personal experiences

·             make personal forecasts based on stories of older children’s experiences

·             arrange a display of artefacts associated with a personal event or development

·             enact a personal event from their past

 

Core Learning Outcome

TCC 1.2

Students sequence evidence representing changes and continuities in their lives.

Students know:

 

 

Changes and continuities

changes in students’ lives

·             stages in students’ lives (baby, toddler, preschool, primary school)

·             changing physical features of stages of their lives (height, size)

·             changing emotional behaviours (crying to meet needs, asking for things)

·             changing social features of stages of their lives (playgroup, parties, leisure, roles and responsibilities in various groups)

·                      changing ways of meeting human needs at different stages e.g.

-          food (bottle, soft foods, school lunchbox)

-          clothes (for crawling around, sport, school)

-          love (hugs, words, actions, special treats)

continuities in students’ lives

·             continuous physical features (same eye colour, skin colour)

·             continuous social features (attending school, making friends)

·             continuous emotional features (feelings, emotional responses to pain, sadness, happiness)

·             constant human needs (food, love, shelter, clothing, education)

Students can:

 

 

Creating

sequence evidence

·             draw pictures of physical changes, abilities, etc. over time

·             make records of physical changes (bar graph with paper strips indicating changing height over time)

·             list ways that they are the same adults (needs, feelings)

·             sequence photographs of themselves at different stages using criteria such as age, height, abilities

·             list ‘doing’ and ‘describing’ words beside ‘stages of life’ headings on a personal or class chart

·             forecast possible changes and continuities in their next year level

 

Core Learning Outcome

TCC 1.3

Students share points of view about their own and others’ stories.

Students know:

 

 

People and contributions

range of own and others’ stories

·             oral (personal stories, peer stories, family stories)

·             written

·             dramatic (pantomime)

·             video/film

·             sand stories

·             string stories

·             puppetry stories

Students can:

 

 

Participating

share points of view

·             give points of view (this story is about…; this is my favourite story because…)

·             listen attentively to others’ points of view

·             explain personal preferences about aspects of stories or for certain types of stories

·             share emotional responses to stories (makes me feel…)

·             dramatise interpretations of a story

·             show respect for others’ points of view by offering positive feedback, verbal and/or non-verbally

 

Core Learning Outcome

TCC 1.4

Students describe the effects of a change over time in a familiar environment.

Students know:

 

 

Causes and effects

familiar environments

·             natural

·             built

·             social

·             home

·             school

·             local community

effects of changes

·             effects of seasonal changes on food, clothes, human activity, animal behaviour, plants

·             effects of personal development changes (new abilities, new responsibilities)

·             effects of changes in built environment (inconvenience of building site, new activity associated with new playground, new road crossing)

·             effects of changes in social environment (new class routines, changed roles after a baby arrives in familiar, changed activities associated with cultural events, changed group membership)

Students can:

 

 

Communicating

describe effects

·             use appropriate language to describe effects of changes (bigger, greener, oldest, coldest, dead, growing, maybe, because)

·             record changes in picture, photo or display form and annotate with effects

·             create a concept map based on an observed change (Christmas is coming), and complete with effects (changes in social activity and built environment)

 

Core Learning Outcome

TCC 1.5

Students identify what older people value from the past.

Students know:

 

 

Heritage

what older people value from the past

·             things

-          special places

-          toys

-          clothes

·             lifestyle

-          pace of life

-          family

-          home life

-          leisure activities

-          transport

·             traditions

-          celebrations

-          ways of speaking

·             social structures

-          going to school

-          home jobs

-          gender roles

-          friends

Students can:

 

 

Reflecting

identify what is valued

·             ask questions about what older people value (guest speaker)

·             circle items in a word list or picture chart which represent what is valued by familiar older people

·             make comparisons (what they value and what older people value)