Year 21 Curriculum Overviews Term 2 2017

Year 2/1 Term 2 Curriculum Overview In 2017, the Australian Curriculum is implemented in English, Mathematics, Science, History and Geography. Outlined below are the key concepts covered in the unit, along with the assessment tasks. ENGLISH FOCUS ASSESSMENT Unit 3: Year 1 Year 1 & 2 Assessment task: Reading, Students listen to, read and view a variety of poems to explore Imaginative reconstruction writing and sound, word and rhythm patterns. Students create an imaginative and recitation of a poem performing reconstruction of a poem and recite it to the class. Students create and present poetry an imaginative reconstruction Year 2 of a poem to a familiar Students read and listen to a range of poems and create an audience. imaginative poetry reconstruction. Students present their poem to a familiar audience and explain why it is entertaining.

Unit 4: Year 1 Year 1 Multimodal Creating digital procedural texts Assessment task: procedural Students listen to, read, view and interpret traditional and digital Reading comprehension texts multimodal texts, to explore the language and text structures of Students demonstrate reading procedure in imaginative and informative contexts. Students create a accuracy, fluency and digital presentation of a procedure from a literary context. understanding of the different purposes of texts. Year 2 Exploring procedural text Assessment task: Students listen to, read and view a range of literary imaginative texts Multimodal procedure that contain certain structural elements and language features that Students create a digital reflect an informative text. Students create a procedure. multimodal procedure, combining and connecting written, visual and spoken elements.

Year 2 Assessment task: Reading comprehension Students read and comprehend an imaginative text and a procedural text and respond to literal and inferential questions.

Assessment task: Multimodal procedure Students create a multimodal procedure.

SCIENCE FOCUS ASSESSMENT Unit 2: Year 1 Material Madness Year 1 Students explore how everyday materials can be physically Assessment task: changed in a variety of ways according to their properties. They Don’t rock the boat describe the actions used to physically change materials to make Students describe the effects objects for different purposes, understanding that science involves of physical changes made to a asking questions about and describing changes to objects that are material to make a boat that used in their everyday lives. floats. Students make a Students respond to and pose questions, and make predictions in prediction, conduct an guided investigations exploring the effects of making physical investigation and record changes to materials and objects. They use a range of methods to observations. sort information and collect and record observations, comparing them with predictions and with the observations of others. They modify a material for a given purpose, test their modifications and compare their observations with predictions.

Year 2 Mix, make and use Year 2 Students investigate combinations of different materials and give Assessment task: reasons for the selection of particular materials according to their properties and purpose. Students understand that science Combining materials for a involves asking questions about, and describing changes to, purpose familiar objects and materials. They describe changes made to Students investigate the materials when combining them to make an object that has a combination of materials used purpose in everyday life. Students pose questions, make to make an object for a predictions and follow instructions to record observations in a particular purpose. guided investigation. They represent and communicate their observations using scientific language.

HISTORY FOCUS ASSESSMENT Unit 1: Year 1 At this moment in time Year 1 Inquiry Question: Assessment task:  How do we describe the sequence of time? Time capsule box Students will describe In this unit, students: significant personal and family  understand concepts and terms used to describe the events sequenced on a passing of time timeline.  recognise events that happened in the past may be memorable or have personal significance  view and discuss sources, such as images, objects and family stories, that have personal significance  sequence and describe events of personal significance using terms to describe the passing of time

Year 2 Exploring the impact of changing technology on Year 2 people’s lives Assessment task: Inquiry question/s: Changing technology  How have changes in technology shaped our daily life? Students pose questions about objects from the past and In this unit, students; present, compare and sequence objects and identify  investigate continuity and change in technology used in the changes and continuities in home, for example, in toys or household products one aspect of daily life over  compare and contrast features of objects from the past and time. present  sequence key developments in the use of a particular object in daily life over time  pose questions about objects from the past and present  describe ways technology has impacted on peoples’ lives making them different from those of previous generations.

MATHS FOCUS ASSESSMENT Unit 3: Year 1 Year 1 Students develop understandings of: Assessment task: Secret object Patterns and algebra — investigate & describe repeating & growing Students give and follow patterns, connect counting sequences to growing patterns, represent the directions to familiar locations. tens number sequence, represent & record counting sequences, describing number patterns Assessment task: Number and place value — represent & record the tens number Pool problems sequence, investigate quantities & equality, represent two-digit numbers, Students solve simple addition standard partitioning of two-digit numbers, model double facts, connect problems. addition & subtraction, represent, record & solve simple addition problems Using units of measurement — describe the duration of an hour, explore & tell time to the hour. Location and transformation — explore & describe location, investigate & describe position, direction & movement, interpret directions.

Year 2 Students develop understandings of: Year 2 Shape — recognise & name familiar 2D shapes, describe the features of Assessment task: 2D shapes, draw 2D shapes & describe the features of familiar 3D Identifying and continuing objects. additive number patterns Number and place value — represent two-digit numbers, partition two- Students recognise, continue and digit numbers into place value parts, represent addition situations describe additive number patterns. Patterns and algebra — identify the 3s counting sequence, describe number patterns, identify missing elements in counting patterns, & solve Assessment task: simple number pattern problems Time Fractions and decimals — represent halves & quarters of shapes, Students tell time to the quarter represent halves & quarters of collections, represent eighths of shapes & hour. collections, describe the connection between halves, quarters & eighths, & solve simple number problems involving halves, quarters & eighths Using units of measurement — use a calendar, identify the number of days in each month, relate months to seasons, tell time to the quarter hour.

Unit 4: Year 1 Year 1 Students develop understandings of: Assessment task: Money mathematical guided Shape — Investigate the features three-dimensional objects and two- inquiries dimensional shapes, and describe two-dimensional shapes and three- Students use simple strategies to dimensional objects reason and solve money inquiry Number and place value — Identify and describe addition and subtraction questions. situations, apply addition strategies, solve subtraction problems, represent and record counting sequences, represent multiples of ten, compare and order numbers, partition two-digit numbers Assessment task: Fractions and decimals — investigate wholes and halves, partition to Shape shakers make equal parts Students describe and compare Money and financial mathematics — explore features of Australian coins. three-dimensional objects based on their obvious geometric features. Year 2 Students develop understandings of: Year 2 Number and place value — recall addition & subtraction number facts, Assessment task: describe part-part-whole relationships, add & subtract single and two- Chance and location digit numbers, solve addition & subtraction problems, represent mathematical guided inquiries multiplication, represent division, solve simple grouping & sharing Students use simple strategies to problems reason and solve chance and Location and transformation — interpret simple maps of familiar location inquiry questions. locations, describe ‘bird’s-eye view’, use appropriate language to describe locations, use simple maps to identify locations of interest Assessment task: Money and financial mathematics — describe the features of Australian Money and additive concepts coins, count coin collections, identify equivalent combinations, identify $5 Students associate collections of & $10 notes, count small collections of coins & notes Australian notes and coins with their values. They solve simple Using units of measurement — compare and order area of shapes & addition and subtraction problems surfaces, cover surfaces to represent area, measure area with informal using a range of strategies. units.