Year 1 HASS – Term 3 (WA Curriculum): Our Places and Families

What this unit covers

In Term 3, Year 1 HASS in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Our Places and Families”.

Students explore local places, their features and changes, while investigating how families and communities care for these places across different cultures and times.

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. Mapping Our School and Neighbourhood
2. Weather Watchers: Daily and Seasonal Patterns
3. How Weather Changes Our Places
4. Aboriginal Seasons in Our Local Area
5. Caring for Country: How Different Groups Look After Places
6. Families Then and Now: How We Live Together
7. Different Family Stories: Exploring Perspectives
8. Making Conclusions About Our Places and 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 3

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 3 runs from Monday 20 July to Friday 25 September — 10 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.