This unit includes everything you need to teach a Caring for Places unit for Year 1 HASS for the entire term! Paired with my Features of Places unit, you can tick off all your Geography planning.
 
Through this unit, students explore the natural, managed and constructed features of places and how these places change and can be cared for.
 
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What's included?
Caring for Places HASS PowerPoint
• 160 + slides.
• Vocabulary loading slides.
• Lesson aligned slides with warm-ups, content and conclusions.
• Hyperlinked contents.
• Bonus templates.  
 
10 x Detailed Lesson Plans
• 40+ pages of activities and lessons.
• Learning intentions.
• Detailed steps. 
• Resource lists.
• Activities with flexible options.
• Assessment rubric.
• Cover pages.
 
Lesson Outline
Lesson 1: Spin a Feature - Reviewing natural, managed and constructed features.
Lesson 2: Going Through Changes - Exploring how places change.
Lesson 3: Changing Places - Understanding how natural, managed and constructed features can change.
Lesson 4: Weathering the Changes - Investigating how weather can impact how places change and how this influences the way we care for these places.
Lesson 5: My Room, Mapped Out - Mapping out the furniture in our room and describing how we can care for places that are special to us. 
Lesson 6: A Helping Hand - Identifying a place that is special to us and describing how we care for it.
Lesson 7: The Local Feature - Exploring a local feature and describing who looks after it and how.
Lesson 8: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Re-think - Identifying resources that cane be reduced, reused or recycled.
Lesson 9: Team Earth - Identifying local spaces and systems that help us reduce, reuse and recycle. 
Lesson 10:  Welcome to my Place (assessment) - Sharing our knowledge about how places change and how they can be cared for. 
 
Bonus: This unit has recently been revised and updated to align with the Australian V9 curriculum. The old unit has also been included as a separate file. Please note that some lessons may have been integrated and refreshed from other year levels, to align with curriculum updates. The details of the V8 unit are below:
 
What's included?
The World Around Me
The World Around Me PowerPoint:
70 + slides.
Vocabulary warm-up slides
Activity slides linked to each lesson plan. 
10 x Detailed Lesson Plans: 
Includes learning intentions.
Detailed steps. 
Resource lists.
30 Pages of Activity sheets: 
Includes bonus optional 5-page flip book
Topics include:
My Room... Mapped out!
Home, Sweet Home
Me on a Map!
Mapping Out
Welcome to Planet Earth
What's up with Weather?
Seasonal Symbols
Comparing Climates
Let's Compare
Geography Whiz (Optional Assessment)