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Elaboration ACHASSI018

posing questions with the stems ‘where’, ‘what’, ‘how’ and ‘why’ about families, celebrations, places and the weather

Elaboration (1) ACHASSI018

asking questions before, during and after listening to stories about people and places and about their past and present

Elaboration (2) ACHASSI018

preparing questions for parents and members of older generations about how they lived in the past, where they lived and the places they value

collecting and displaying everyday objects (for example, toys, telephone, radio, cooking utensils, clothes) and other sources (for example, photos, found objects, maps, observation sketches) to stimulate ‘Where’, ‘What’, ‘When’, ‘How’ and ‘Why?’ ques …

Elaboration ACHASSI019

exploring stories from the past and present about people and families (for example, fiction books, letters, diaries, songs) and about places (for example, myths, Dreaming and Creation stories, fiction, story maps, films)

Elaboration (1) ACHASSI019

gathering evidence of change in a local place (for example, by comparing current observations of a place with photographs of it taken in the past)

Elaboration (2) ACHASSI019

using geographical tools (for example, photographs taken from the air, Google Earth or digital image searches) to locate and identify the different features of places and how they have changed over time, including places with largely natural features …

Elaboration (3) ACHASSI019

gathering information about the weather and seasons from the media, their own observations and from stories (for example, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories)

Elaboration ACHASSI020

creating and sharing concept maps to show personal understanding of their world (for example, a web of family relationships and connections, or a mental map of their place and its important features or spaces)

Elaboration (1) ACHASSI020

making artefact and photo displays to show the features of a place (for example, collections of natural and constructed things from the environment) or to show the passing of time (for example, collections of things used when growing older, toys used …

Elaboration (2) ACHASSI020

recording data about the location of places and their features on maps and/or plans (for example, labelling the location of their home and daily route to school on a map of the local area, drawing a plan of their classroom and labelling its activity …

Elaboration (3) ACHASSI020

developing a pictorial table to categorise information (for example, matching clothes with seasons, activities with the weather, features and places, places with the work done)

Elaboration ACHASSI021

using visual representations such as a ‘days of the week’ chart, a class timetable or a calendar to sequence events or tasks

Elaboration (1) ACHASSI021

describing what they see as they move from one point to another (for example, going from home to school, from the classroom to the library)

Elaboration ACHASSI022

comparing students’ daily lives and those of their parents, grandparents, elders or familiar older person, and representing the similarities and differences in graphic form (for example, in a Venn diagram or Y-chart)

Elaboration (1) ACHASSI022

sharing personal preferences about their world (for example, their favourite weather, activities, places, celebrations) and explaining why they are favoured

Elaboration ACHASSI023

identifying similarities and differences between activities over time by comparing objects of the past with those currently used (for example, comparing toys, games, clothes, phones, cooking utensils, tools, homework books)

Elaboration (1) ACHASSI023

using comparative language when describing family life over time and/or comparing features of places, such as ‘smaller than’, ‘bigger than’, ‘closer’, ‘further’, ‘not as big as’, ‘younger/older than’, ‘more rainy days’, ‘fewer/less’, ‘hottest/coldest’, …

Elaboration (2) ACHASSI023

exploring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories, traditional and contemporary, about places and the past and how places have changed

Elaboration (3) ACHASSI023

categorising objects, drawings or images by their features and explaining their reasoning, for example, categorising the features of a local place into natural (native forest), constructed (street of houses) and managed (windbreak of trees)

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