Days We Remember - Foundation HASS Unit Plan
Days We Remember - Foundation HASS Unit Plan
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Australian Curriculum v9.0
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Days We Remember develops source-based explanations of family and community events. Children distinguish what people do from why an event matters, investigate a reunion invitation and account, compare two birthday perspectives, explore respectful remembrance and apply their ideas to a class reading celebration.
The ten-lesson sequence has a separate complete PowerPoint for every lesson. The reviewed eight-session route combines Lessons 1–2 and 9–10 with selected slides, guided tasks and assessment collection. All essential understanding and assessment are completed by session 8.
What's included
- Ten separate editable lesson PowerPoints: 12 slides per lesson, 120 lesson slides in total.
- One editable 20-slide unit quiz with eight questions and separate answer explanations.
- A 59-page Unit Plan PDF with the teacher overview, preparation/source guide, ten complete lesson plans, eight-session route and assessment guidance.
- Two colour displays, eight fictional source cards across two pages and a cooperative Evidence Trail game across three pages.
- Ten black-and-white worksheets, each immediately followed by its matched red model-answer page.
- Two assessment pages and a four-criterion rubric.
- A 199-page protected Preview PDF showing the Unit Plan, all ten presentations in lesson order and the quiz.
- A clean Table of Contents JPEG.
Learning focus
Event significance; celebrations and commemorations; useful questions; source clues and source limits; month/day calendar records; before/during/after sequences; respectful comparison; short evidence-supported narratives.
Classroom use
Teacher-led modelling, source-card discussion, cooperative groups of 2–4 for the Evidence Trail game, individual recording and a short teacher conference. The final calendar tile and retell explain who, why, date, sequence and a supporting source. Existing lesson evidence informs the rubric; handwriting or confident public speaking is not the learning standard.
Formats
PPTX: ten editable lesson presentations (120 slides) and one editable quiz (20 slides).
PDF: Unit Plan (59 pages) and protected Preview (199 pages).
JPG: clean Table of Contents.
Illustrated student pages are embedded in the Unit Plan PDF; they are not supplied as editable worksheets.
Answers
Ten matched red worksheet model-answer pages immediately follow their worksheets. Quiz answers and explanations are in the editable quiz. Teacher game-response criteria and assessment guidance are included. Accurate alternative answers supported by the sources are accepted.
Teacher benefits
Complete teaching sequences and source-linked tasks; a compact route with explicit slide choices; flexible communication and recording options; aligned evidence collection; colour discussion/game resources with low-ink student records.
Digital product and licence
Digital resource; no physical item. PowerPoint-compatible software for PPTX and a PDF viewer are required. Use within the purchaser’s own classroom under the applicable licence. Do not resell, redistribute or publicly share the full files.
Page counts
59 Unit Plan pages, including 30 student-resource/answer pages and 28 teacher-guidance pages plus the contents page. The protected Preview contains those pages followed by all 140 lesson/quiz slides in order. Page counts describe separate files; the Preview repeats the content for inspection.