Living Heritage -
Blockhouse Bay Primary
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Culture and Heritage
Level Two
Ways in which communities reflect the culture and heritage of their people;
Students could demonstrate such knowledge and understandings when they:
- identify the cultures and heritages of people who live in particular communities;
- describe ways community activities (e.g., on special occasions) and features of the community (e.g., buildings) reflect the cultures and heritages of the people who live there;
- explain how certain features of the community (e.g., historic places, street names, place names, museums) reflect people's heritage.
How people interact within their cultural groups and with other cultural groups.
Students could demonstrate such knowledge and understandings when they:
- Identify ways people interact within their cultural groups (e.g., meeting everyday needs, on special occasions, for education);
- Describe customs and traditions that influence the ways in which people interact within a cultural group;
- Describe the ways people from different cultures interact within communities.
Place and Environment
How people's activities influence places and the environment and are influenced by them;
Students could demonstrate such knowledge and understandings when they:
- Give examples of ways people's activities (e.g., sports, farming, communications, defence) are influenced by the location and physical features of a place;
- Describe how people's activities can have a damaging effect on natural or cultural features of the environment;
- Describe how people can restore or enhance natural or cultural features of the environment.
How and why people describe places and environments in different ways.
Students could demonstrate such knowledge and understandings when they:
- Explain what place names reveal about places and environments;
- Explain why people record descriptions of places and environments in different ways. (e.g., through pictures, sound and video recordings, maps);
- Explain why people choose to record particular features of places and environments.
