HASS History Sea Transport Boats Ships Then and Now Activities Year 2

Item description

This engaging pack of activities will help your students to learn about the history of boats and sea transport with worksheets, interactive notebook activities, PowerPoint™ and Google Slides™ for teaching, design activities, labelling activities, a S.T.E.M activity, and a word search.

The activities are HASS-aligned with opportunities for comparing photos of the past and present, sequencing a timeline, identifying technologies used by First Nations Australians, talking to grandparents, and writing about how boats have made the world more connected.

What’s included?

•18 PowerPoint™ and Google Slides™

•Cut and paste activity to categorise different ship technology (sails, steam, diesel)

•Interactive notebook to identify technologies used by First Nations Australians for water travel (gap-fill option and lined option for students to write their own details)

•Spot the differences – identify differences between two photos of boats, one from the past and one from the present

•Ask a grandparent or elder – compare changes in boat transport over time (plus editable version)

•Interactive sailboat – write about how boats meet our needs (plus editable version)

•Interactive world – write about how transport technology makes the world more connected (plus editable version)

•Interactive ship’s wheel – practice writing cardinal directions

•Two design activities to choose from (a new kind of boat and a boat you could live on)

•STEM challenge to make a boat

•Label the parts of a ship – cut and paste

•Word search (two levels of difficulty)

•Timeline with four differentiated options plus a foldable option

I hope your students enjoy learning about the history of boats with these activities.