In HSIE, students explore varied subjects in human society and its environment to learn about history, geography, people, societies and culture.
Campbell House School
Global Issues and Citizenship - Stages 4 and 5
This unit is aimed at making students aware of global issues in order to work towards becoming active global citizens and to work cohesively as a group in order to engage with their social skills aims in their behaviour management plans.
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Vietnam - Stage 5
The unit focuses on the economic, social, political and cultural aspects of Vietnam as a place of liveability. Through an intensive study of Vietnamese culture students build a storyline for wellbeing through understanding the diverse features and characteristics of environments in Vietnam. The unit focuses on processes and influences that transform liveability and human wellbeing on a geographical scale. The unit's key idea is creating a profile to evaluate liveability in terms of human wellbeing in a country.
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Verona School
Mapping - Stage 4
This is a Geographical skills unit, which is designed to teach students about different types of maps, the features of these maps and how to read them. Geographical Information Systems (mapping computer programs, apps etc) will also be explored with a focus on using GOOGLE maps.
Lesson 1:
Lesson 2:
Lesson 3:
- Map Features (PPTX 7.76MB)
- Cardinal Points (PPTX 696KB)
- Map (DOCX 757KB)
- Map 2 (PDF 137KB)
- Map 3 (PDF 359KB)
- Worksheet 1 (PDF 742KB)
- Worksheet 2 (PDF 106KB)
- Worksheet 3 (PDF 890KB)
- Worksheet 4 (PDF 99KB)
- Worksheet 5 (PDF 1.4MB)
Lesson 4:
- Presentation (PPTX 4MB)
- Worksheet 1 (PDF 287KB)
- Worksheet 2 (PDF 435KB)
- Worksheet 3 (PDF 890KB)
- Worksheet 4 (PDF 71KB)
- Worksheet 5 (PDF 410KB)
Lesson 5:
Lesson 6:
Lesson 7:
- Projections (PPTX 4.7MB)
- Worksheet (PDF 52KB)
- Lat&Long 1 (PDF 101KB)
- Lat&Long 2 (PDF 546KB)
- Lat&Long 3 (PDF 155KB)
- Lat&Long 4 (PDF 277KB)
- Lat&Long 5 (PDF 270KB)
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Australia in the Regional & Global Context - Stage 5
The Unit of Work is to improve Geographical key concepts and ideas by using literacy and numeracy techniques in the classroom.
- Teach and demonstrate to students in how to interpret Geographical data
- Increase students literacy levels in regards to different data and texts
- Increase skills comprehending and evaluating data
- Cross-curricular topics and outcomes
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