This unit includes everything you need to teach a Features of Places unit for Year 1 HASS for the entire term! Paired with my Caring for Places unit, you can tick off all your Geography planning.

Through this unit, students explore the natural, managed and constructed features of local places. They investigate seasonal and daily weather and begin to develop an understanding of location and simple directional language. 

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What's included?

Features of Places HASS PowerPoint

• 170 + 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: Eyeing up Environments - Identifying natural and constructed environments.

Lesson 2: Exploring Environments - Describing an environment using our senses.

Lesson 3: Finding Features - Identifying managed, constructed and natural features.

Lesson 4: Features of Our community - Identifying and sorting features of the community.

Lesson 5: Community Helpers - Understanding the importance of people in our community and how this relates to features.

Lesson 6: It’s Only Natural - Exploring a natural place that has significance to a particular culture (can be adapted to any location).

Lesson 7: Building on Up - Listing buildings in our community and using a simple map.

Lesson 8: What’s up with Weather? - Exploring and creating weather symbols.

Lesson 9: Seasonal Symbols - Exploring seasonal weather patterns.

Lesson 10: The Featured Tour (Assessment) - Creating a school map, labelling features and providing simple directions.

Bonus: This unit has recently been revised and updated to align with the Australian V9 curriculum. The old unit has been included as a separate file. Please note that some lessons may be integrated and refreshed from other year levels, to align with curriculum updates. The details of the V8 unit are below:

What's included?

Places and Spaces

Places and Spaces 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.

23 Pages of Activity sheets: 

Topics include:

• Looking at Landscapes
• Exploring Environments
• Finding Features
• Using Spaces
• Going Through Changes
• Protecting Places
• Our Community
• Community Helpers
• Community Features
• Show What You Know (Assessment)