Our Family Stories – Foundation HASS Unit Plan

Our Family Stories supports Foundation children to investigate who cares for people, how family members are connected, and the places people were born and raised. Children ask questions, gather information from fictional accounts and objects, compare perspectives, and explain a source-based conclusion.

The unit offers ten complete 60-minute lessons, each with its own editable presentation. A detailed eight-session route combines selected slides and activities from Lessons 1–2 and 9–10. It retains the essential teaching and assessment and provides the exact slide sequence and evidence to collect.

Maya, Leo, Asha and Harper are fictional cases. Learners may use these throughout, with no requirement to share private photographs, personal birthplaces or difficult family experiences. Teaching uses respectful comparisons and distinguishes a stated fact from a guess. Oral, pointing, communication supports, drawn and scribed responses are equivalent ways to demonstrate learning.

What's included

• Ten separate editable lesson PPTX files: 11 slides each, 110 lesson slides in total.
• One editable 24-slide unit quiz with ten questions and adjacent answer/feedback slides.
• One 47-page Unit Plan PDF with contents, teaching overview, file index, ten lesson plans, the eight-session route, assessment guidance and 31 resource pages.
• Two colour displays: family-story words and explaining evidence.
• Eight fictional source cards across two colour pages: four family profiles, a childhood account and three object accounts.
• Cooperative Evidence Trail game: instructions and worked turn, six-stop board, eight challenge cards and teacher key.
• Ten black-and-white worksheets and ten matching red answer/example pages.
• A two-page map assessment and evidence conference record, plus a four-dimension rubric.
• A 181-page watermarked Preview showing all Unit Plan pages, Lessons 01–10 and the quiz.
• A clean Table of Contents JPG.

Learning focus

Explain family and care relationships; distinguish born from raised; ask relevant questions; record information from sources; compare accounts and perspectives respectfully; select evidence; communicate an explanation and recognise a source's limits.

Classroom use

Use the complete sequence for ten lessons or the mapped eight-session route. Read accounts and prompts aloud, model the reasoning, then use partner investigations, the cooperative game and individual evidence checks. Assess an existing map and inquiry portfolio through a short conference or an accessible response mode. A new display is not required to complete the compact route.

Answers

Each worksheet is followed immediately by a matched red answer/example page. Open tasks accept other accurate, source-supported responses. The game has a teacher key; quiz questions have editable answer/feedback slides. The map assessment has a conference record and rubric, with guidance for equivalent response modes.

Teacher benefits

Separate lesson files support flexible pacing. Fictional cases provide a complete participation route. Matched examples clarify evidence expectations. The eight-session route retains essential learning and assessment without requiring two full decks to be taught end-to-end in a combined session.

Digital product and licence

This is a digital teaching resource; no physical item is supplied. Copyright Sukindi Learning. Please follow the licence associated with your purchase.

Formats and page counts

PDF teaching guide/resources, ten editable lesson PowerPoints, one editable quiz PowerPoint and a JPG table of contents. Teaching-content total: 181 pages/slides, made up of 47 Unit Plan PDF pages, 110 lesson slides and 24 quiz slides. The separate 181-page Preview repeats the same content with watermarks and is not added to that total.