Transcript Links between geography and other learning areas at years F-4

GEOGRAPHY LINKS WITH OTHER
LEARNING AREAS
Core units: Key understandings Years F–4
Illustration 1: Pointers to understanding
What are the links between
geography and other learning
areas in Years F–4?
What things can a primary teacher
introduce to students?
Science
Foundation level
• Daily and seasonal changes in our
environment, including the weather, and
how the seasons affect everyday life
Mathematics
Foundation level
• Sort and classify familiar objects and
explain the basis for these classifications.
Copy, continue and create patterns with
objects and drawings
• Sort, describe and name familiar twodimensional shapes and three-dimensional
objects in the environment
• Describe position and movement
History
Foundation level
• Students, their family and friends
commemorate past events that are
important to them
Science
Year 1
• Living things live in different places where
their needs are met
• Observable changes occur in the sky and
landscape
Mathematics
Year 1
• Give and follow directions to familiar
locations
• Represent data with objects and drawings
where one object or drawing represents
one data value. Describe the displays
History
Year 1
• The present, past and future are signified by
terms indicating time such as:
– a long time ago
– then and now
– now and then
– old and new
– tomorrow …
• They are also represented by dates and
changes that may have personal significance
such as birthdays, celebrations and seasons
Science
Year 2
• Earth’s resources, including water, are
used in a variety of ways
• Living things grow, change and have
offspring similar to themselves
Mathematics
Year 2
• Interpret simple maps of familiar
locations and identify the relative
positions of key features
• Collect, check and classify data
• Create displays of data using lists, table
and picture graphs and interpret them
History
Year 2
• The history of a significant person,
building, site or part of the natural
environment in the local community and
what it reveals about the past
• The impact of changing technology on
people’s lives – at home and in the ways
they worked, travelled, communicated,
and played in the past
Science
Year 3
• Living things can be grouped on the
basis of observable features and can be
distinguished from non-living things
• Earth’s rotation on its axis causes
regular changes, including night and day
Mathematics
Year 3
• Create and interpret simple grid maps to
show position and pathways
• Collect data, organise into categories and
create displays using lists, tables, picture
graphs and simple column graphs, with and
without the use of digital technologies
History
Year 3
•
The importance of Country/Place to Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander peoples who belong to a local area. This is
intended to be a local area study, focusing on one
language group. If information or sources are not readily
available, another representative area may be studied
•
One important example of both change and continuity
over time, in the local community, region or
state/territory. For example, transport, work, education,
natural and built environments, entertainment, daily life
English
Year 3
• Plan and deliver short presentations,
providing some key details in logical
sequence
• Listen to and contribute to conversations
and discussions to share information and
ideas and negotiate in collaborative
situations
Science
Year 4
• Living things have life cycles
• Living things, including plants and
animals, depend on each other and the
environment to survive
• Earth’s surface changes over time as a
result of natural processes and human
activity
Mathematics
Year 4
• Use simple scales, legends and directions to
interpret information contained in basic
maps
• Construct suitable data displays, with and
without the use of digital technologies,
from given or collected data.
• Include tables, column graphs and picture
graphs where one picture can represent
many data values
History
Year 4
• The diversity and longevity of Australia’s
first peoples
• The ways Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait
Islander peoples are connected to
Country and Place (land, sea, waterways
and skies) and the implications for their
daily lives
English
Year 4
• Interpret ideas and information in spoken
texts and listen for key points in order to
carry out tasks and use information to
share and extend ideas and information
• Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations
incorporating learned content and taking
into account the particular purposes and
audiences