Even Year Integrated units: Scope and Sequence.
Level 1
Throughline: Growing up great and safe
Integrated Unit Title: Being a School Kid- School
Readiness
Essential Question: Who am I? Who are we?
Unit Question/understandings:
Why do we go to school?
Why do people do things in groups?
Where do I fit in my family? Where do I fit in the
Prep Centre and school?
What are the expectations of the Prep Centre?
How do I feel about coming to school?
How do I express my feelings?
Key Concepts:
Personal safety
Feelings and emotions
Behaviour
Interactions
Throughline: Growing up great and safe
Integrated Unit Title: Play and Toys
Essential Question:
What is play?
Unit Question/understandings:
How do we play together?
When am I playing?
What are toys?
Why are toys fun?
How do toys work?
Key Concepts:
Balance (ie: work, rest, and play)
Behaviour
Feelings and Emotions
Cause and effect
Creativity
Level 2
Throughline: Growing up great and safe
Integrated Unit Title: Health and Fitness
Essential Question:
How do we care for ourselves?
Unit Question/understandings:
Key Concepts: Cause and effects, live and living,
work and leisure, the physical world.
Level 3
Integrated Unit Title: Create a character
Throughline: Growing up great and safe
Essential Question: Who do you want to be?
Unit Question/understandings:
1). Who is someone you admire and why?
2). What would you want someone to like about
you?
3). What will you be like in the future?
4). What do you need to be happy?
Key Concepts: individual potential, similarities &
differences, beliefs & values, behaviour, feeling &
emotions, imagining & constructing the future,
wellbeing
Throughline: Growing up great and safe
Integrated Unit Title: Safety, Caring and Sharing.
Essential Question:
How do I keep safe?
Unit Question/understandings
Key Concepts: Well being, personal safety, cause
and effects, perception.
Integrated Unit Title: Body Systems
Throughline: Growing up great and safe.
Essential Question: What has to happen for me
to feel good and well?
Unit Question/understandings:
1). What is being alive?
2). How do we move?
3). What does my brain tell me to do?
Key Concepts: relationships, systems, well being,
needs & wants, energy, development
Level 4
Even Year
Integrated Unit Title: The Choice is Yours
Throughline: Growing up Great and Safe
Essential Question:
What constitutes lifestyle?
Unit Question/understandings:
How do you demonstrate leadership qualities?
How do you ensure that your lifestyle is safe and
protected?
What opportunities are available for both work
and leisure?
Key Concepts: Personal Safety, Relationships,
Well-being, Work-Leisure.
Integrated Unit Title: Outdoor Education
Essential Question:
What constitutes lifestyle?
Unit Question/understandings:
How do environment conditions effect work and
play?
How can we cope in large groups where members
have a diversity of thought?
Key Concepts: behaviour, needs-wants, survival,
feelings, emotions.
Throughline: Belonging and contributing
positively to a world community
Integrated Unit Title: Rules and Responsibilities
Essential Question:
How does a community function effectively?
Unit Question/understandings:
What are rules and consequences?
How do we make good choices?
Why do we have rules?
How do my actions affect others?
What are the 3 C’s? (care, courtesy, cooperation)
Key Concepts:
Interdependence
Roles, rules and laws
Justice, rights, and responsibility
Cause and effect
Throughline: Belonging and contributing
positively to a world community
Integrated Unit Title: People who help us in our
school community
Essential Question:
How does a community function effectively?
Unit Question/understandings:
Who belongs to the school community?
How do we work together in the school
community?
What are we working towards as a school
community?
Key Concepts:
Interdependence
Roles, rules and laws
Justice, rights, and responsibility
Cause and effect
Throughline: Belonging and contributing
positively to a world community
Integrated Unit Title: People Who Help Us.
Essential Question:
Who can we turn to for help?
Unit Question/understandings:
Key Concepts: Institutions, individuals and
groups, communication, work and leisure,
interaction.
Integrated Unit Title: Celebrating Australia then
& now
Throughline: Belonging and contributing
positively to a world community
Integrated Unit Title: Communications
Essential Question:
What is Progress?
Unit Question/understandings:
Key Concepts: Imagining and constructing the
future, supply and demand, development,
invention and design, communication.
Integrated Unit Title: Communications
Throughline: Belonging and contributing
positively in a World community
Essential Question: When do you know that you
belong?
Unit Question/understandings:
1). How do different communities celebrate
different occasions?
2). How do celebrations show a cultures history?
Key Concepts: culture, tradition, diversity,
customs & rituals, organisation
Throughline: Belonging and contributing
positively in a World community
Essential Question: How do we know about each
other?
Unit Question/understandings:
1). What are the best ways of communicating
with each other?
2). How did your grandparents communicate
with each other?
Key Concepts: the global society,
communication, interaction, change, rights &
responsibilities
Integrated Unit Title: Celebrations
Essential Question:
How do we interact? Unit
Question/understandings:
What are the various ***** in our immediate
community?
What are their values, beliefs & customs?
How do they celebrate their nationality?
Key Concepts: culture, tradition, customs/rituals.
Integrated Unit Title: Koorie Ed
Essential Question:
How do people communicate?
Unit Question/understandings:
Who were Australia’s first occupants?
How did they live & manage their lives?
What values are present today?
What have we learnt from the first Australians?
What can we still learn?
Key Concepts: culture, indigenous people,
tradition, customs-rituals.
Throughline: The world we live in is constantly
changing
Integrated Unit Title: Hot and Cold (solids,
liquids, and gases)
Essential Question:
What is change?
Unit Question/understandings:
How do things feel?
Why do things feel/look different?
Why do things change?
Key Concepts:
Cause and Effect
Cycles
Change
Throughline: The world we live in is constantly
changing
Integrated Unit Title: Weather
Essential Question:
What is change?
Unit Question/understandings:
What is weather?
What happens when the weather changes?
How does weather effect us?
Key Concepts:
Cycles
Cause and effect
Change
Life and living
Throughline: The world we live in is constantly
changing
Integrated Unit Title: Transport – Using Force to
Make Things Move.
Essential Question:
What is progress?
Unit Question/understandings:
Key Concepts: imagining and constructing the
future, supply and demand, development,
invention and design, mobility.
Integrated Unit Title: Structures & stadiums
Throughline: The world we live in is constantly
changing
Integrated Unit Title: Solids, liquids and gases?
Essential Question:
What’s the world made of?
Unit Question/understandings:
Key Concepts: Cause and effect, cycles,
resources, the physical world?
Integrated Unit Title: Travelling the Great Divide
Throughline: The World we live in is constantly
changing
Essential Question: What is progress?
Unit Question/understandings:
1). How do you know when you are making
progress?
2). Does everyone make progress?
3). Can Doveton be made any better?
Key Concepts: development, imagining &
constructing the future, invention & design,
creativity, change, environment,
Throughline: The World we live in is constantly
changing
Essential Question: Is it possible to change?
Unit Question/understandings:
1). Is it good to change?
2). What is it like to move from once place to
another?
3). Where would you most like to live and why?
Key Concepts: revolution, time, work & leisure,
change, adaptation, the physical world, resources
Integrated Unit Title: Technological Change
Essential Question:
What is progress?
Unit Question/understandings:
What is technology?
What technological inventions have been helpful
to modern living?
How have technological ideas advanced and
developed?
Has design influenced technological change?
Key Concepts: transitions, invention, design,
creativity, production.
Integrated Unit Title: Media Watch
Essential Question:
How do we survive in a changing world?
Unit Question/understandings:
How do we publicise news events and issues? Has
this changed over time?
What are the issues facing the world currently?
Does media presentation influence decisions?
Key Concepts: Thinking critically, imagining,
perception.
Throughline: The natural/living world and
universe demands understanding and respect
Integrated Unit Title: Living things (plants and
animals)
Essential Question:
What is change?
Unit Question/understandings:
What is living?
What is non-living?
What do living things need?
What is a plant?
What is an animal?
Key Concepts:
Cycles
Living and non-living
Change
Physical world
Survival
Throughline: The natural/living world and
universe demands understanding and respect
Integrated Unit Title: Human Body
Essential Question:
What am I made up of?
Unit Question/understandings:
What are senses?
How do our senses help us?
What is our body?
How do we keep our body healthy?
Key Concepts:
Cycles
Life and living
Change
Throughline: The natural/living world and
universe demands understanding and respect
Integrated Unit Title: Farm Animals
Essential Question:
What is the role of animals in our world
community?
Unit Question/understandings:
Key Concepts: Life and living, production,
mobility, needs and wants, consumption,
location.
Integrated Unit Title: Environment & Change
Throughline: The natural/living world and
universe demands understanding and respect
Integrated Unit Title: The Beach/Habitats
Essential Question:
What is the world made of? Unit
Question/understandings:
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What is the difference between living
and non-living?
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What living and non-living things
make up the beach?
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Which animals live in the water /sand?
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Who eats who? (food chains)
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What impacts the beach
environment/habitats?
Key Concepts: The physical world, living and
non-living, cause and effect, ecological
sustainability, environment.
Integrated Unit Title: Water is a vital resource –
Solids, Liquids & Gases
Throughline: The natural/living world and
universe demands understanding and respect
Essential Question: Is it possible to live anywhere
in the world?
Unit Question/understandings:
1). What do you need to take with you to live
anywhere in the world?
2). What do you need to find when you get to
the place you want to live?
3). How would you look after the place you
chose to live in?
Key Concepts: conservation, ecological change,
sustainability, change, the physical world,
environment, cause & effect
Throughline: The natural/living world and
universe demands understanding and respect
Essential Question: How can we look after our
world?
Unit Question/understandings:
1). Do we have an endless supply of water?
2). Is water re-useable?
3). Should we fight a war over water?
Key Concepts: location, resources, distribution,
conservation, supply & demand, similarities &
differences
Integrated Unit Title: Conservation
Essential Question:
How does the natural World change?
Unit Question/understandings:
What conditions effect the environment?
What are the environment issues?
What can we do to safeguard against damage?
How is your local community affected by such?
What is/can be done in our local community to
improve our environment?
What are future effects to environment?
Key Concepts: Environment, resources,
conservation, cause/effect
Integrated Unit Title: Science Fair
Essential Question:
What are the World’s needs?
Unit Question/understandings:
How have we utilised the Earth’s resources to
produce energy/inventions?
What are the Earth’s resources?
What are the products we now deem as essential?
How were they created?
Key Concepts: adaptation, energy, consumption,
supply/demand