Year 2 HASS – Term 2 (WA Curriculum): Our Heritage and Changing Technology

What this unit covers

In Term 2, Year 2 HASS in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Our Heritage and Changing Technology”.

Students explore the importance of local heritage sites and investigate how technology has changed over time, developing skills in questioning, researching and analysing historical information.

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. What Makes a Place Special? Exploring Our Local Heritage Sites
2. Discovering Why Heritage Places Are Important Today
3. Technology Then and Now: How Things Have Changed at Home
4. From Past to Present: How People Used to Travel and Work
5. Investigating Our Questions About Heritage and Technology
6. Sorting and Recording What We've Learned About the Past
7. Comparing Information: Heritage Sites and Old Technology
8. Sharing Our Discoveries About Our Heritage and Technology Changes

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.