Creating a unit plan for the year four level history must follow the understanding of the rationale that has been set in place by the Australian curriculum. The unit plan lacks the appreciation of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, however, the unit plan is still able to educate …show more content…
These priorities are still very relevant in today’s society as the events that transpired in the past continue to reflect on today’s generation of Indigenous people. It is the cross-curriculum priorities that allow for students to gain knowledge about the contemporary issues they face today (Learning across the curriculum, 2016). Without cross-curricular priorities a lack of the skill empathy, sympathy, understanding and respect can occur for different cultures and diversity (Westaway, 2014). It is important for the wider community that all students are educated on this matter and provided with the correct cross-curricular priorities. The importance of this is shown by (ACARA, 2016) as it states “Contemporary issues that all young Australians should learn.” Like cross-curricular priorities, general capabilities are essential for completing a successful unit …show more content…
This grade four unit plan lacks the ability of creating relations between the wider communities, however, there is attempts throughout different lessons in the unit that maintain the general capability of intercultural understanding. This general capability is used to provide the students with the knowledge of different cultures as well as respecting the difference. Ethical competence is also seen throughout the unit, it is emerged into the lesson as it provides an understanding of what is right and what is wrong. Although this is seen during the unit, the lesson does not show any other representation of connecting with the