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Oxford Connections People & Places Student Book Year 4

First Edition

Dr Nathaniel Swain, Vanessa Ryan-Rendall, Joanna Brown, Jo Lucas, Tracey Collie, Anna Jones, Grace Romano, Lisa Kebbell

$16.95 AUD

ISBN:
9780190356866
Published:
10 Oct 2026
Availability:
Coming soon
Series:
A knowledge-rich, F–6 Humanities program with explicit teaching and literacy at its core

Oxford Connections: People & Places is a brand-new program that will provide all the teacher and student resources needed to explicitly teach the full humanities curriculum, while embedding and developing core literacy skills.

The series supports a knowledge-rich curriculum by offering carefully curated reading passages that immerse students in diverse subjects, build background knowledge and strengthen literacy skills. With videos, interactives and check for understanding opportunities, Humanities becomes engaging and accessible.

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Learn more about the series
https://www.oup.com.au/primary/humanities/connections-people-and-places

Year Level

Unit No.

Lesson No.

Unit

Topic / Lesson

4

1

1

Climate, landforms and environments

Global climate zones

2

Landforms

3

Sustainable resource use

4

Conservation vs Sustainability

5

Managing protected lands

6

First Nations food and land care

7

Review

 

Further Application

2

1

Exploration and Global connections

Global Navigation

 

2

Tools of discovery

3

Charting Australia

4

Transportation of British Convicts

5

British Arrival on Gadigal Country

6

Voyage Perspectives

7

Review

 

Further Application

Assessment

3

1

First contacts and Life in the penal colonies

Resources Transported

2

Learning from the past

3

Stories from Settlement

4

Gadigal Country and the First Fleet

5

Life after colonisation

6

Circumnavigating Australia

7

Review

 

Further Application

4

1

Rules and local government

Local Rules and Laws

2

Local Government

3

Civic Connections

4

Celebrating culture

5

Community Response

6

Active Citizenship

7

Review

 

Further Application

Assessment