Year 1 HASS – Term 2 (WA Curriculum): Then and Now - Exploring Changes Over Time

What this unit covers

In Term 2, Year 1 HASS in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Then and Now - Exploring Changes Over Time”.

Students explore how time is represented through words and dates, compare daily life across generations, and develop skills to research and record information about changes over time.

Lesson sequence (8 lessons)

The unit breaks down into the following lesson-by-lesson sequence — each title below is a teachable lesson, in order:

1. Understanding Time Words: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
2. Special Dates and Personal Celebrations
3. What Does 'A Long Time Ago' Mean?
4. How My Daily Life Compares to My Parents' Childhood
5. Discovering My Grandparents' Childhood Stories
6. Collecting and Sorting Information About Family Traditions
7. How Communication Has Changed Over Time
8. Creating a Timeline of Changes in Our Families

Curriculum codes in this unit

Content codes:

Skills codes:

Reading the codes: WA codes (the ones starting with WA) pack the year level, learning area, strand and content number into one string, while the national Australian Curriculum v9 uses a different anatomy that starts with AC9 — same content family, different labels. Our complete WA Curriculum guide decodes both, character by character.

Planning notes for Term 2

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 2 runs from Monday 20 April to Friday 3 July — 11 weeks for WA public schools. With 8 lessons in this unit, that leaves breathing room for assessment, moderation and the weeks that disappear to carnivals, camps and public holidays — plan the assessable work to land two to three weeks before the end of term rather than in the final week.