Year 4 HASS – Term 3 (WA Curriculum): Protecting Our Environment - Resources and Sustainability

What this unit covers

In Term 3, Year 4 HASS in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Protecting Our Environment - Resources and Sustainability”.

Students explore how environments support people and animals, investigate sustainable resource use, and develop decision-making skills to protect our natural world.

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. Discovering Why Animals and People Need Healthy Environments
2. Comparing Different Views on Land Use - Farms vs National Parks
3. Investigating Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources in Our Daily Lives
4. Learning How Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Sustainably Use Natural Resources
5. Analysing Different Opinions About Environmental Protection
6. Reading Maps and Graphs to Compare Environmental Data
7. Exploring Solutions to Environmental Problems in Our Community
8. Making Decisions About How to Protect Local Environments

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.