Year 2 HASS — AC v9
All 10 content descriptions for Year 2 HASS in the Australian Curriculum Version 9, grouped by strand — each one links to its own page, and TeachKoala can turn any of them into a complete lesson (your first is free).
Achievement standard (what coverage means)
- •Students use sources, and subject-specific terms to present narratives and observations about the past, people and places at different scales.
- •Students use interpretations to draw conclusions and make proposals.
- •Students identify that those places can be spatially represented in different geographical divisions.
- •Students develop questions, and collect, sort and record related information and data from observations and provided sources.
- •They identify the effects of changes in technologies on people’s lives.
- •They identify how people and places are interconnected both at local and broader scales.
- •They interpret information and data, and identify and discuss perspectives.
- •By the end of Year 2, students identify the significance of a local person, group, place and/or building.
- AC9HS2K01a local individual, group, place or building and the reasons for their importance, including social, cultural or spiritual significance
- AC9HS2K02how technological developments changed people’s lives at home, and in the ways they worked, travelled and communicated
- AC9HS2K03how places can be spatially represented in geographical divisions from local to regional to state/territory, and how people and places are interconnected across those scales
- AC9HS2K04the interconnections of Australian First Nations Peoples to a local Country/Place
- AC9HS2S01develop questions about objects, people, places and events in the past and present
- AC9HS2S02collect, sort and record information and data from observations and from provided sources, including unscaled timelines and labelled maps or models
- AC9HS2S03interpret information and data from observations and provided sources, including the comparison of objects from the past and present
- AC9HS2S04discuss perspectives related to objects, people, places and events
- AC9HS2S05draw conclusions and make proposals
- AC9HS2S06develop narratives and share observations, using sources, and subject-specific terms
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The Year 2 HASS planning scaffold
A one-page planning sheet with the official achievement standard, every content description grouped by strand, and space for your assessment and week-by-week sequence. Print it and plan on paper, or use it as the skeleton for a unit.
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