Year 5 HASS – Term 2 (WA Curriculum): Resources, Choices and Global Connections

What this unit covers

In Term 2, Year 5 HASS in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Resources, Choices and Global Connections”.

Students explore how natural, human and capital resources are used to make goods and services, understand scarcity and trade-offs in decision making, and investigate the characteristics of North and South America.

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. Identifying Natural, Human and Capital Resources in Our Community
2. How Resources Create the Goods and Services We Use Daily
3. Understanding Scarcity: Why We Can't Have Everything We Want
4. Making Choices: Exploring Trade-offs in School and Home Decisions
5. Discovering the Physical Features of North America
6. Exploring South America's Climate, Landforms and Wildlife
7. Gathering Reliable Information About Global Resources Using Ethical Research
8. Analysing Resource Use: Comparing Australia with North and South America

Curriculum codes in this unit

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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.