Country/Place Connections - Year 2

Explore how people, water, living things and responsibilities connect through the named Budj Bim/Gunditjmara case. Students ask questions, identify sources, record ideas, compare past/present evidence and perspectives, build a three-idea connection map and explain a supported conclusion. A public Gunditj Mirring account and a named Torres Strait Islander example add specific perspectives without treating any one case as universal.

Teach ten complete 60-minute lessons or eight integrated 60-minute sessions. The compact route pairs lessons 1+2 and 9+10, uses selected slides from those separate files and retains the same core evidence and assessment. All required assessment is completed by session eight.

What's included

• 51-page Unit Plan PDF: teacher guidance, sources and localisation, full ten-lesson planning and the eight-session route, plus 30 resource pages.
• Ten separate editable lesson presentations, numbered 01–10: 10 slides each, 100 slides total.
• One separate editable unit quiz: 24 slides, with ten questions and paired reasoned answers.
• Two colour display pages; eight case cards over two colour pages.
• Three-page cooperative Country Connections Pathway game: rules/worked turn, six-stop board and eight challenge cards, with teacher response guidance.
• Ten low-ink learning records, each immediately followed by a matching red model/criteria response page.
• Two-page connection-map/explanation/transfer assessment and a four-criterion rubric.
• 175-page complete Preview PDF: all 51 unit-plan pages, all ten lesson decks and the quiz, in order.
• Separate clean Table of Contents JPEG.

Learning focus

Country/Place interconnections; questions and evidence; source attribution; recorded information; past/present comparisons; visitor and Traditional Owner perspectives; supported conclusions; safe proposals and permission limits; communication and unfamiliar-case transfer.

Classroom use

Use source-card discussion, indoor or approved local observation, the cooperative game and a growing evidence portfolio. Before the local-Country lesson, verify the school’s attribution and source through school-approved information and the relevant Traditional Owner organisation. Record “needs checking” if attribution is not approved; the supplied named Budj Bim case remains available for the complete inquiry and assessment. The fictional Riverbend scene is an indoor observation alternative, not evidence of a real community.

Teacher benefits

Students may speak, draw, write, dictate, select pictures or symbols, gesture, or use a communication board/device. Assess the same understanding and reasoning across response modes. Model pages illustrate possible responses; open questions accept other accurate, source-supported answers. Assessment does not score handwriting, neatness, confidence or volume.

Digital product and licence

Digital download; no physical item. Classroom-use licence for the purchasing teacher; do not redistribute, resell or share the files publicly. PPTX files contain editable teaching/quiz text; PDF worksheet artwork is supplied as finished pages. PowerPoint or compatible software is needed for PPTX files and a PDF viewer for PDFs. Local maps, approval and local source material are teacher-supplied. All illustrations are conceptual or clearly fictional, not exact cultural-site photographs/maps or reproduced First Nations artwork. School approval is required before any observation or care action.

Formats, page counts and answers

Ten editable lesson PPTX files, 100 slides in total; one editable quiz PPTX, 24 slides. Unit Plan PDF: 51 pages, including 30 resource-image pages. Preview PDF: 175 pages. TOC JPEG: one page. Ten immediately paired red worksheet models; quiz answers and teacher assessment/game guidance included.