HSIE
Information and resources for the teaching of Human society and its Environment
Human Society and Its Environment K–6
The purpose of study of human societies and our environments is to:
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enhance students' sense of personal, community, national and global identity; and to
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enable participation in maintaining and improving the quality of the society and environments.
There are four strands to the syllabus:
- 1. change and continuity in human living
- 2. cultural perspectives, ours and others
- 3. natural and built environments locally and globally
- 4. the structure of governments and social systems
- HSIE studies include History, Geography, Commerce and Indigenous cultures.
Board of Studies NSW Resources
Belonging: A Century Celebrated
The Internet Public Library: Subject Collections
Edmund Barton - Our First Prime Minister
The Endeavour Journal [Captain James Cook RN; 1768 - 1771]
The Diary of William John Wills [Explorer, 1861]
The George Raper Collection [The First Fleet]
Ask Asia [K - 12 Resource of the Asia Society]
Images of Antarctica (Australian Antarctic Division)
