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Humanities and Social Sciences

Year 2

Above satisfactory

Museum in a box

Summary of task

Students visited a local museum to investigate aspects of life in the past. Following the visit, students chose objects or technologies for teacher-guided research and inquiry, and students sequenced developments along a simple timeline and wrote scaffolded texts to describe changes over time. Students also created and labelled a ‘museum in a box’ as part of a classroom display about the past and present. The series of activities took place in class over six 50-minute lessons.

Achievement standard

By the end of Year 2, students describe a person, site and/or event of significance in the local community and explain why places are important to people. They identify how and why the lives of people have changed over time while others have remained the same. They recognise that the world is divided into geographic divisions and that places can be described at different scales. Students describe how people in different places are connected to each other and identify factors that influence these connections. They recognise that places have different meaning for different people and why the significant features of places should be preserved.

Students pose questions about the past and familiar and unfamiliar objects and places. They locate information from observations and from sources provided. They compare objects from the past and present and interpret information and data to identify a point of view and draw simple conclusions. They sequence familiar objects and events in order and sort and record data in tables, plans and on labelled maps. They reflect on their learning to suggest ways to care for places and sites of significance. Students develop narratives about the past and communicate findings in a range of texts using language to describe direction, location and the passing of time.

By the end of Year 2, students describe a person, site and/or event of significance in the local community. They identify how and why the lives of people have changed over time while others have remained the same.

Students sequence events in order, using a range of terms related to time. They pose questions about the past and use sources provided to answer these questions and to identify a point of view. They compare objects from the past and present. Students develop a narrative about the past using a range of texts.

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Learning Area
Explains, with examples, differences between past and present
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Subject - History
Explains, with examples, differences between past and present
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Subject - History
Sequences developments in chronological order
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Learning Area
Sequences developments in chronological order

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Learning Area
Creates a display to represent differences between the past and the present
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Subject - History
Creates a simple display to represent differences between the past and the present
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Subject - History
Provides text to explain features of the display
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Learning Area
Provides text to explain features of the display