This bundle includes all of your Year Two HASS planning for the entire year! These four units explore technology over time, important places, geographical skills and more! Featuring detailed lesson plans, PowerPoint slides, activity sheets and optional assessment; it has everything you need!
 
What's included?
 
| Updated 2025 |
 
Technology Over Time (V9)
Technology Over Time PowerPoint
200 slides.
Vocabulary loading slides.
Lesson aligned slides with warm-ups, content and conclusions.
Hyperlinked contents.
Bonus templates.
Assessment and rubric.
10 x Detailed Lesson Plans:
Includes learning intentions.
Detailed steps.
Resource lists.
60 + Pages of Activity sheets:
Lesson 1: Tech Times - Recognise how technology has changed over time.
Lesson 2: Technology at Home - Explain how technology around the home has changed.
Lesson 3: Time to Relax - Explore how leisure activities from the past have changed.
Lesson 4: Play Back Then - Recreate an old fashioned toy and explore how toys from the past reflect changes to leisure time.
Lesson 5: Travelling Technology - Order modes of transport on a timeline.
Lesson 6: Talking with Tech - Investigate how communication has changed over time.
Lesson 7: Munchin’ on the Past - Interview an older person and compare how shopping for food and goods has changed through time.
Lesson 8: Old School Rules - Identify school rules in the past that don’t apply in the present.
Lesson 9: World of Tech - Design a new piece of technology to solve a problem.
Lesson 10: Changes through the Ages (assessment) - Describe how technology has changed the way we live
 
Importance of the Past (V9)
Importance of the Past PowerPoint
190 + slides.
Vocabulary loading slides.
Lesson aligned slides with warm-ups, content and conclusions.
Hyperlinked contents.
Bonus templates.
Assessment and rubric.
10 x Detailed Lesson Plans:
Includes learning intentions.
Detailed steps.
Resource lists.
60 + Pages of Activity sheets:
Lesson 1: Let’s Get Significant - Creating a profile on a significant person.
Lesson 2: Local VIP - Research a local person with historical significance.
Lesson 3: Sorting Significance - Explore why places or buildings are significant.
Lesson 4: Significant Safari - Identify a significant place or building within the local area.
Lesson 5: Spot the Difference - Describe the different between past and present places.
Lesson 6: Local Landmarks - Research a significant local landmark.
Lesson 7: Let’s Explore - Understand the significance of a historical cultural site.
Lesson 8: Significant Sites - Understand the significance of a cultural site.
Lesson 9: Tour Investigators - Research information to design a tour brochure based on a significant place.
Lesson 10: Kids on Tour (assessment) - Create a tour brochure using information gathered through research.
 
Note: If you are an international purchaser, I have included templates/powerpoint slides to help you adapt the lessons to places and people relevant to your location. However, please keep in mind that this resource was designed to align to the Australian Curriculum.
 
Connecting to Places (update landing early 2025)
Connecting to Places PowerPoint
120 + slides.
Vocabulary warm-up slides
Activity slides linked to each lesson plan.
10 x Detailed Lesson Plans:
Includes learning intentions.
Detailed steps.
Resource lists.
30 + Pages of Activity sheets:
Topics include:
Pondering Over Places (Natural, man-made and constructed features).
Looking Local (Exploring origins of named local places).
Connecting to Country (Indigenous perspectives).
Special Places, Special Stories (Connecting to Indigenous places/ or option for school or other local place).
We are Connected (Mapping our connections in the community).
Connections and Beyond (Identifying our connections both locally and further away).
Going Global (Identifying how world events can be connected to our place).
Data on the Move (Exploring the places we visit).
Let's Compare (Comparing patterns of visiting places with others).
Optional Assessment: Tasty Travels! (Investigating how our favourite food links us to a different place. Includes option to explore the features of this place, how to visit this place and what people are connected to this place).
 
Our Wonderful World (update landing early 2025)
Our Wonderful World PowerPoint
130 + slides.
Vocabulary warm-up slides.
Activity slides linked to each lesson plan.
10 x Detailed Lesson Plans:
Includes learning intentions.
Detailed steps.
Resource lists.
60 + Pages of Activity sheets:
Topics include:
Looking at Locations (suburbs/towns).
Super States, Terrific Territories (all Australian states/territories included as well as blank templates).
Check Out Our Country (exploring Australia. Alternative blank template included).
Cool Continents (multiple options included for different hemispheres).
Wow, What a World (labelling continents and oceans).
Where in the World? (exploring the distance between countries).
Have You Heard About Hemispheres? (Making comparisons between hemispheres).
World Explorers (investigating a country or continent of choice).
Directions for an Alien (applying knowledge of location/directions).
Optional Assessment: Window Seat Around the World (planning a journey and describing location on a global map).
Bonus: Optional flipbook.
 
Note: As this resource is designed for the Australian curriculum the majority of the local/national activities focus on Australia's states and territories. However, where possible, blank templates have been included, as well as options for different hemispheres. Please consider that some content may not be as relevant to your location before purchasing.