Looking at the Year 5 HASS Curriculum, specifically civics & citizenship? Need a starting point? Look no further!

This 8-lesson unit explores the HASS concept through an inquiry to examine key elements of democracy, including elected representatives involving roles and responsibilities and characteristics, voting, and values of democracy. It also discusses the impact and importance of community groups and organisations, including charities and not-for-profit.

In the unit, students will create a political party and run elections to explore and apply the concepts of the unit in a manner that is meaningful and engaging while teaching the content.

They will develop questions, locate, collect, and organise information and evaluate information and data from various sources. They will use this to develop evidence-based conclusions, propose actions or responses to issues or challenges, use criteria to assess possible effects, and present explanations and findings in various methods.

The unit plan package downloads as a zip file and contains the following resources:

• Unit Guide: includes a scope and sequence, unit overview, lesson plans with associated resources, assessments, rubrics, suggested resources, and tiered vocabulary lists.
• PowerPoint: provides supplementary information for each lesson, including experiments.