This unit includes everything you need to teach a 'Celebrating the Past' unit for Foundation & Pre-Primary HASS for the entire term! Paired with my 'Personal and Family History' unit, all of your history content is covered.
 
This particular unit starts as students explore the lives of their grandparents and investigate how we learn about the past. Students then move on to learning about celebrations and commemorations, why these dates are significant to individuals, and how we can celebrate these in different ways.
 
Let’s Celebrate | Updated 2025 |
Let’s Celebrate PowerPoint 
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10 x Detailed Lesson Plans: 
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40 Pages of Activity sheets: 
Lesson 1: Thinking About the Past. Students explore how we learn about the past through images, stories, and objects. They complete a picture sort showing what helps us understand history.
Lesson 2: Our Class Museum. Students bring in a meaningful object or photo from home, describe its history, and contribute to a class museum to showcase family and cultural artefacts.
Lesson 3: An Interview With a Grandparent. Students interview an older person about their childhood and life experiences, then present the answers using creative templates.
Lesson 4: Comparing Lives. Students compare their life with that of a grandparent or older person, identifying similarities and differences in areas like school, play, and traditions.
Lesson 5: Stories From the Past. Students draw and retell a story from the past, either from a family member or a shared read-aloud, explaining what it teaches us about history.
Lesson 6: Let’s Celebrate. Students explore birthday celebrations, sharing how they celebrate and comparing it with peers. They create birthday hats as part of a class display.
Lesson 7: My Favourite Celebration. Students choose and illustrate their favourite celebration, then compare it with a friend’s to learn about different cultural and family traditions.
Lesson 8: Family Celebrations. Students draw and describe how their family celebrates various events, building understanding of the similarities and differences in family traditions.
Lesson 9: Calendar Celebrations. Students help create a class celebration calendar, mapping personal, cultural, and community events across the year.
Lesson 10: Sorting Celebrations. Students reflect on their learning by comparing a celebration from the past and one they’re looking forward to, highlighting similarities, differences, and significance.
 
Bonus:
‘Celebrations’ Display Banner. 
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*This unit has recently been revised and updated to align with the Australian V9 curriculum, so the V8 version is included as an option too (some content continues to overlap).