Year 1
2 hours for 1 class (up to two classes per day)
My Patch – Year 1 HASS
Curriculum Focus: HASS inquiry
Curriculum Links: HASS (Geography)
Aim
For students to explore and understand the importance of special natural places within their school grounds, and to understand how they can be cared for.
Overview of the program
Through the story My Patch and using real-life examples from Bunyaville Conservation Park, students apply HASS inquiry skills to explore the features of places and how they can be represented. Students are invited to explore special places within their school grounds or in a natural area close to the school. They identify features of ‘their patch’, how it is used, how people are connected to places and how special places can be cared for. Students apply their geographical knowledge and skills to a real-life situation and have opportunities to record, represent and communicate their observations (including construction of a pictorial map or drawing a field sketch) during the field investigation.
My Patch – Year 1 Science
Curriculum Focus: Scientific inquiry
Curriculum Links: Science
Aim
For students to investigate the plants and animals within the natural habitats of their school grounds.
Overview of the program
Through the story My Patch, and using real-life examples from Bunyaville Conservation Park, students apply science inquiry skills to explore animal and plant habitats. Students are invited to conduct their own field study, investigating plants and animals living in the school grounds or a natural place nearby. During the field investigation, students have opportunities to record and communicate their observations through application of their science inquiry skills.
At the beginning of the program, students will develop an inquiry question and predictions for a scientific field investigation. Using their senses, students will collaboratively make observations and collect data about animals, plants and habitats in their schoolgrounds. They will then be provided with an opportunity to reflect on the outcomes of their investigation and consider whether their predictions were similar to their observations.