A knowledge-rich, F–6 Humanities program with explicit teaching and literacy at its core.
Oxford Connections: People & Places is a brand-new program that will provide all the teacher and student resources needed to explicitly teach the full humanities curriculum, while embedding and developing core literacy skills.
The series supports a knowledge-rich curriculum by offering carefully curated reading passages that immerse students in diverse subjects, build background knowledge and strengthen literacy skills. With videos, interactives and check for understanding opportunities, Humanities becomes engaging and accessible.
Contents:
1. Climate, landforms and environments
- Global climate zones
- Landforms
- Sustainable resource use
- Conservation vs Sustainability
- Managing protected lands
- First Nations food and land care
- Review
- Further Application
2. Exploration and Global connections
- Global Navigation
- Tools of discovery
- Charting Australia
- Transportation of British Convicts
- British Arrival on Gadigal Country
- Voyage Perspectives
- Review
- Further Application
- Assessment
3. First contacts and Life in the penal colonies
- Resources Transported
- Learning from the past
- Stories from Settlement
- Gadigal Country and the First Fleet
- Life after colonisation
- Circumnavigating Australia
- Review
- Further Application
4. Rules and local government
- Local Rules and Laws
- Local Government
- Civic Connections
- Celebrating culture
- Community Response
- Active Citizenship
- Review
- Further Application
- Assessment