Upper Primary Years 4-7 SOSE and Science

Unit 2: Wet Tropics Relationships with Humans

Unit 2 Flow Chart
Unit 2 Matrix

Key understandings

North Queensland’s wet tropical forests have been World Heritage listed in recognition of their outstanding global significance. They have been used very differently over time by Rainforest Aboriginal and non-indigenous groups. Attitudes towards this resource have also changed over time.

Focus Questions
• How have Rainforest Aboriginal people used the rainforest?
• How have non-indigenous groups used the rainforest?
• What difference did World Heritage listing make?
• Are humans impacting on this resource today?

Targeted Key Learning Areas
• Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE)
• Science

Targeted New Basics organisers and referents

Life Pathways and Social Futures
• Collaborating with peers and others
Multiliteracies and Communications Media
• Blending traditional and new communications media
• Mastering literacy and numeracy
Active Citizenship
• Operating within local and global communities
Environments and Technologies
• Developing a scientific understanding of the world
• Building and sustaining environments
Targeted Repertoires of Practice
• Collecting, analysing and organising information
• Communicating ideas and information
• Setting out information in a cohesive report
• Appreciating the aesthetics of performance
• Creating works to be performed for an audience
• Planning and organising activities
• Comprehending the concept of environmental responsibility
• Investigating and reporting on both sides of an issue
• Working with others in teams
• Using computer software appropriately (Word, Publisher)

Core learning outcomes
This unit focuses on the following core learning outcomes from the Years 1-10 Syllabuses

Science
Strand: Science and Society
Key Concept: Historical and cultural factors influence the nature and direction of science which, in turn, affects the development of society.
S&S 3.1 Students relate some of the ways that people of various historical and cultural backgrounds construct and communicate their understandings of the same natural phenomena.

Strand: Earth and Beyond
Key Concept: Events on earth, in the solar system and in the universe occur on different scales of time and space.
E&B 3.2 Students discuss regular and irregular events in time and space that occur on the Earth and in the sky.
E&B 4.2 Students collect information which illustrate that changes on Earth and in the Solar System occur in different scales of time and space.

Study of Society and the Environment (SOSE)
Strand: Time, Continuity and Change
Key Concept: Changes and continuity
TCC 3.2 Students create sequences and timelines about specific Australian changes and continuities.
Key Concept: Causes and effects
TCC 3.4 Students organise information about the causes and effects of specific historical events.
Strand: Place and Space
Key Concept: Human-environment relationships
P&S 3.1 Students compare how diverse groups have used and managed material resources in different environments.
P&S 4.1 Students make justifiable links between ecological and economic factors and the production and consumption of a familiar resource.
Key Concept: Spatial patterns
P&S 3.4 Students use and make maps to identify coastal and land features, countries and continents, and climate zones.
Key Concept: Significance of place
P&S 3.5 Students describe the values underlying personal and other people’s actions regarding familiar places.
Strand: Culture and Identity
CI 3.3 Students describe attitudes, beliefs and behaviours that effect their sense of belonging to a range of groups.