Build your child’s skills today with the Humanities and Sciences Book Pack Year 6, which covers a wide range of learning areas in the Australian Curriculum:

The Humanities and Sciences Book Pack Year 6 contains:

Targeting STEM Year 6

Short-listed for the 2021 Educational Publishing Award Australia in the Category "Student Resource."

The Year 6 Targeting STEM Journal is an exciting combination of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. It provides 42 projects for students to work on independently or in groups using a range of commonly available resources. Each project contains four steps with a picture list of requirements and just enough explanation for launching students on their journeys of discovery.

Targeting HASS Activity Book Year 6

The Targeting HASS Activity Books are chock full of fascinating and interesting facts and snippets from a huge variety of primary sources that have been carefully selected to engage to students in years 3 - 6. The term HASS refers to the Australian Humanities and Social Science curriculum which covers History, Geography, Civics & Citizenship and, only in Years 5 and 6, Economics & Business. Each book contains 32 double page units featuring an illustrated stimulus text chosen to support curriculum inquiry questions.

Targeting General Capabilities - Personal and Social Capability / Intercultural Understanding Years 5 -6

The General Capabilities are one dimension of the Australian Curriculum and are taught through the content of the Learning Areas. They involve knowledge, skills, behaviour and dispositions. There are seven General Capabilities, and the first series in Targeting General Capabilities examines two of them: Personal and Social Capability, and Intercultural Understanding. Children are encouraged to be aware of their emotions and learn how to manage their feelings, behaviours and interactions with others. They also learn the importance of becoming responsible global citizens by enhancing cultural knowledge.

Targeting General Capabilities - Critical & Creative Thinking / Ethical Understanding Years 5 - 6

The seven General Capabilities are one dimension of the Australian Curriculum and are taught through the content of the Learning Areas. They involve knowledge, skills, behaviour and dispositions. This Targeting General Capabilities book examines and assesses two of them for years 5 and 6: Critical Thinking and Ethical Understanding. Children learn to identify and investigate the nature of ethical concepts, values and character traits, and understand how reasoning can assist ethical judgement. Children also learn to generate and evaluate knowledge, clarify concepts and ideas, seek possibilities, consider alternatives and solve problems.