This resource is a presentation and accompanying activities that explore the importance of the places that students' live.
Structure and features
- The PowerPoint presentation is for showing to students. You can access the first 5 slides which are sufficient, or create a free account to download the complete 21 slide presentation - People live in places Powerpoint presentation.
- With some adult help, students can represent their home by drawing a simple map showing a range of features which can be labelled. A neighbour’s home can also be on the story map.
- With adult support, students can find their family home using Google Earth and then take time to look at houses in that and other streets - Google Earth.
Students can talk about and record their understanding of:
- houses are places we live in
- houses have many features and there are many different types of houses
- houses have many different features like being 2-storey, having a garden or front fence and window shutters
- homes provide people with basic needs including safety where you can eat, sleep, play, belong and keep warm, cool and protected
- people who live in houses make up different types of families
- our home is on the land of Aboriginal people, for example the land of the Kaurna people if you live in the Adelaide plains.
For teachers
The complete unit plan is available to download - People live in places unit plan.
