Caring for Country and Places (Grade 1)
Free printable HASS worksheet for Grade 1 on how people, including First Nations Australians, care for places: true/false facts about caring for Country plus matching everyday caring actions to what they help.
Grade 1 · Social Studies worksheet
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Social Studies
Caring for Country and Places
Circle True or False, then match each caring action to what it helps. Talk about it (not marked): choose one place you love and say one way your class could help care for it.
- 1.True or False: Only one single group of people is allowed to look after special places.
- a) True
- b) False
- 2.True or False: People only started caring for Country a few years ago.
- a) True
- b) False
- 3.True or False: Traditional Custodians still care for Country today.
- a) True
- b) False
- 4.True or False: Caring for Country includes caring for the land, the water, the plants and the animals.
- a) True
- b) False
- 5.True or False: Places never change at all, so nobody needs to look after them.
- a) True
- b) False
- 6.Match: Saving water at home and at school
- a) leaves more water in the rivers and dams
- b) keeps the park clean for people and animals
- c) helps you learn how to care for that place
- d) protects the plants growing beside the track
- e) gives birds and animals food and shelter
- 7.Match: Planting local native trees
- a) leaves more water in the rivers and dams
- b) keeps the park clean for people and animals
- c) helps you learn how to care for that place
- d) protects the plants growing beside the track
- e) gives birds and animals food and shelter
- 8.Match: Listening to Elders talk about a place
- a) leaves more water in the rivers and dams
- b) keeps the park clean for people and animals
- c) helps you learn how to care for that place
- d) protects the plants growing beside the track
- e) gives birds and animals food and shelter
- 9.Match: Putting rubbish in the bin at the park
- a) leaves more water in the rivers and dams
- b) keeps the park clean for people and animals
- c) helps you learn how to care for that place
- d) protects the plants growing beside the track
- e) gives birds and animals food and shelter
- 10.Match: Staying on the walking track in the bush
- a) leaves more water in the rivers and dams
- b) keeps the park clean for people and animals
- c) helps you learn how to care for that place
- d) protects the plants growing beside the track
- e) gives birds and animals food and shelter
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Accuracy and sources
These references support the historical wording and answer key on this worksheet.
- AIATSIS - Welcome to Country — defines Country as the lands, waterways and seas peoples are connected to, carrying law, language, family and identity, and states that only Traditional Owners can welcome visitors to Country or authorise others to do so, while anyone can acknowledge Country
- Reconciliation Australia - Acknowledgement of Country and Welcome to Country — documents that a Welcome to Country is delivered by Traditional Owners (or people they have given permission) and can include a speech, singing, dancing or a smoking ceremony, while an Acknowledgement of Country can be offered by any person
- ACARA - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures cross-curriculum priority — the curriculum priority these worksheets serve; the paired term Country/Place and the phrase First Nations Australians follow ACARA's own usage