Stage 1 HSIE Unit 8 – Caring for Water and Country – Lesson Slides

Teach all 16 lessons of Stage 1 HSIE Unit 8, Caring for Water and Country, from one classroom-ready slide deck.

Overview

This is a complete PowerPoint for NSW HSIE Stage 1 Unit 8. It covers all 16 lessons plus 4 consolidation activities across 409 classroom-ready slides, so you can open it, project it and teach.

The unit begins with Country: what connection to Country means in Aboriginal Cultures, the reciprocal responsibility to care for it, and how Aboriginal Peoples read the land, water and sky to know when to harvest, travel and rest. Students meet Dreaming Stories about water, explore how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples value water Country and Place, and learn how Indigenous Rangers care for waterways today. From Lesson 7 the unit turns to fresh water in Australia: the natural and human features of water environments, how water travels from dam to tap and back again, how households, farms and industries use it, and how urban and rural communities differ. It finishes with sustainable water use at home and school, a class water audit and the Water savers lesson. Every lesson runs on the same clear flow of learning intention, key language, beginning the lesson, core lesson, challenge and concluding reflection.

The 16 lessons cover

• Caring for Country
• Knowledge of land, water and sky Country
• Dreaming Stories
• Valuing Country
• Indigenous Ranger Programs
• Local water Country
• Recreation and leisure
• Fresh water is collected for use
• From dam to tap
• How Australians use fresh water
• Water use at home
• Comparing household water use
• Using water sustainably
• School water audit
• Urban and rural water usage
• Water savers

Plus four consolidation activities: poster presentations, a water use survey, caring for catchments and caring for water Country.

Each lesson includes

• Learning intention and success criteria
• Key language cards with student-friendly definitions
• Recall and discussion slides to begin the lesson
• Explicit teaching slides with the unit's picture cards, diagrams, picture graphs, maps and tables on screen
• Watch slides with a video still and a one-click link to the video or podcast
• Check-for-understanding questions with click-to-reveal answers
• Numbered student task slides
• A challenge task to extend thinking
• A concluding reflection and an optional assessment task

The deck also includes an interactive memory game for the Resource 5 cards, a drag-and-drop cloze passage and a clickable Contents page with Index buttons on every lesson.

Perfect for

• Stage 1 HSIE, Years 1 and 2
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
• Caring for Country, water and sustainability units
• Geography lessons on water environments and how people use fresh water
• Whole-class explicit teaching on the smartboard or interactive whiteboard
• No-prep lessons and relief or casual cover
• Building a consistent, sequenced unit across a term

Please note

• You will need access to the Stage 1 HSIE Unit 8 lesson plans to teach the unit — this PowerPoint supports their delivery and does not replace the teaching guidance, lesson notes or printed resources
• Adapted from the NSW Department of Education Stage 1 HSIE Unit 8 sample unit under CC BY 4.0; it is not affiliated with or endorsed by the NSW Department of Education
• Videos, podcasts and websites are linked rather than embedded and require an internet connection
• This is a teaching resource and is not an official NESA product

File details

• PowerPoint (.pptx), 409 slides across the full unit
• Delivered as one file — all 16 lessons and the 4 consolidation activities together
• Editable, with the fonts embedded so it looks the same on any computer
• 78 click-to-reveal answers and 72 linked videos, websites and sources
• Stage 1 · Years 1–2
• Digital download
• Internet connection required for the linked videos and sources

Everything you need to teach caring for water and Country is ready to go — one consistent, sequenced unit that saves you hours of planning and preparation.