Bring Australian democracy to life through humour, illustration and rich discussion.
This Year 6 English and HASS resource package helps students make sense of complex civic concepts while developing vocabulary, visual literacy and multimodal composition skills.
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📄 Complete Year 6 teaching unit A fully adaptable English and HASS sequence using There’s a Prawn in Parliament House, mapped to the Australian Curriculum Version 9.0, NSW Syllabus and Victorian Curriculum 2.0.
🖥️ Classroom-ready teaching slides A structured slide deck to support knowledge building, vocabulary instruction, authorial style, visual literacy and multimodal composition.
🎯 Rich assessment task Students create a multimodal explanation about Australian democracy, bringing together civics knowledge, vocabulary, language choices and visual design.
📘 Supporting PETAA book excerpt Includes a selected excerpt from Teaching the Texts and Language of HASS to support teacher understanding of HASS text structures, language features and disciplinary knowledge.
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