Core Learning Outcome

TCC 2.1

Students explain different meanings about an event, artefact, story or symbol from different times.

Students know:

 

 

 

Evidence over time

 

meanings associated with an event, artefact, story and symbol at different times

·             events e.g.

-          family events

-          cultural and religious events

-          celebrations

-          school events

-          religious/holy days

-          personal events

·             artefacts e.g.

-          objects valued at different stages of life

-          things valued in different times

·             stories e.g.

-          stories from other cultures such as creation stories, fables, fairytales

-          personal stories such as personal perspectives about a playground conflict

·             symbols e.g.

-          flags and emblems

-          commercial logos

-          school motto

-          natural features (Uluru)

-          built features (Anzac memorial)

 

Students can:

 

 

 

Investigating

explain different meanings about an event, artefact, story or symbol

·             share personal preferences about an event, artefact, story or symbol and offer reasons

·             compare personal and others’ perspectives about an event

·             imagine how another person may value something and communicate this (a playground incident, climbing Uluru)

·             fill in different thought bubbles for two people looking at the same symbol

 

 

Core Learning Outcome

TCC 2.2

Students record changes and continuities in familiar settings using various devices.

Students know:

 

 

Changes and continuities

familiar settings

·             local, regional, State, national contexts

·             natural e.g.

-          local area

-          small ecosystem (waterhole)

·             social e.g.

-          family

-          class

-          peer group

·             built e.g.

-          school

-          shopping/service centre

-          local residential

-          rural

-          commercial

changes and continuities

·             natural e.g.

-          climate and seasons

-          weather

-          tides

-          physical features (sand dunes, plants)

-          preservation areas

·             social e.g.

-          group membership

-          school activities defined by bell times

-          actions of familiar people

-          friendships

-          activity associated with various groups

·             built e.g.

-          construction

-          farming practice

-          preservation areas

Students can:

 

 

Creating

record using various devices

·             create time categories appropriate to changes and continuities being recorded (days, months, tree years)

·             create a calendar to record environmental conditions (weather, temperature) in various places identified on a map of Queensland or Australia

·             create a timeline with numerical indicators (dates, months) based on concrete records of a change (artefacts or pictures of a building site, farming practice, or plant growth cycle)

·             create a monthly record of observations about a feature of a place (tree or person) and make conclusions about what changes and what stays the same

 

 

Core Learning Outcome

TCC 2.3

Students cooperatively evaluate how people have contributed to changes in the local environment.

Students know:

 

 

People and contributions

local environment

·             social places

·             natural places

·             built places

how people have contributed to changes in the local environment

·             positive contributions e.g.

-          helping

-          preventing a problem

-          solving a problem

·             negative contributions e.g.

-          doing nothing about a problem

-          creating or adding to a problem (littering, crossing when the light is red)

-          acting in a way that interferes with people’s rights (fighting)

·             positive ways of contributing e.g.

-          initiating an action group to plant native bird-attracting plants

-          volunteer work in a hospital, school or for the disabled

-          writing a protest letter with suggestions to Council about an unsafe school crossing

-          joining an organisation that plants koala-friendly trees

-          protecting the country (soldiers)

·             positive and negative changes in the local environment e.g.

-          social change (improved recreational facilities, increased vandalism)

-          changes to natural places (Clean Up Australia, Land Care, garbage in water catchment)

-          changes to built places (heritage listing of a building, tree windbreaks on farms, visual pollution)

Students can:

 

 

Participating

cooperatively evaluate

·             work as part of a team to evaluate how people have contributed e.g.

-          find contributions and the desired changes

-          classify contributions and changes as negative or positive

-          group according to how they were achieved (individually, joined a group, creating a work party, advertised for others to do their bit)

-          decide which methods were most successful (created desired change)

-          consider why they were most successful

·             participate in a small group to understand how people (the elderly) contribute to the local community e.g.

-          as whole group, plan interviews

-          individually, conduct the interviews

-          in whole group, compare results

-          individually, give a preference for way/s in which people help

·             evaluate why a place has deteriorated (how people have contributed to the problem)

 

 

Core Learning Outcome

TCC 2.4

Students describe cause and effect relationships about events in familiar settings.

Students know:

 

 

Causes and effects

cause and effect relationships about events in familiar settings

·             personal events e.g.

-          physical growth

-          skill development

-          milestones

-          social development

·             events in natural environments e.g.

-          effect of seasons on plants, lifestyle

-          effect of weather on leisure

-          effect of natural phenomena (lightning on safety)

·             events in built environments e.g.

-          effect of building on nature

-          effect of traffic on health

-          effect of what is harvested on diet

-          effect of technology on learning

·             events in the social environments e.g.

-          why family members do particular things

-          why communities celebrate certain events

Students can:

 

 

Communicating

describe cause and effect relationships

·             explain what motivated them to do something (wear a jacket that day)

·             use a map of the local area to describe places where water pollution may end up after a storm

·             match causes and effects in pictures, words or drama (a playground accident)

·             list possible causes for an event (a storm, a party, a person’s behaviour)

·             use a calendar record of weather to describe why elements of the environment are in their current state (grass is yellow because of no rain)

·             describe consequences if particular things didn’t happen

 

Core Learning Outcome

TCC 2.5

Students identify similarities and differences between the experiences of family generations.

Students know:

 

 

Heritage

the experiences of family generations

·             generations in family structures e.g.

-          kinship systems

-          nuclear families

-          extended families

-          blended families

-          communal families

-          one-parent families

·             family histories (events and traditions)

·             experiences of individuals from different generations e.g.

-          care

-          school

-          work

-          transport

-          technology

-          leisure

·             attitudes in different generations (children seen and not heard)

·             enduring aspects of families (traditions)

·             role and experiences of grandparents in different generations (care of children, care of grandparents)

Students can:

 

 

Reflecting

identify similarities and differences

·             use a table of columns to record events, traditions, valued objects and other aspects of life between generations

·             locate information; list all findings under headings of generations; and make conclusions about the similarities between generations (children like having fun, playing with friends, stories)

·             list personal experiences about getting to school then compare to those of an elderly class guest

·             map the location of own extended family members at two generations and compare results