Welcome to the Home Learning Challenge
What is the home learning challenge?
The home learning challenge encourages children to explore and respond to a given topic. It gives them an opportunity to
- have fun learning about something they are interested in
- show their learning in a way of their choosing. e.g. write a story, design a poster, build a model or compose a song.
There is no right or wrong way of doing it!
Plants from Ngunnawal Country
We would love to hear what you know about Indigenous plants, especially those that we commonly see on Ngunnawal country.
To get you started, we made a short video about the traditional uses of one of the most common grasses seen in Canberra, lomandra longifolia, or spiny-head mat-rush.
Challenge Period
May 11 - 25
Click here to submit and share your response or email it to acthomelearning@ed.act.edu.au
Activity Ideas
Below are some activities that you can engage in to increase your understanding of plants in general, indigenous plants and plants from Ngunnawal Country. You may choose to do multiple activities to form a response.
Design a native plant garden.
Make artworks inspired by the natural environment
Make a nature journal to record the world around you.
Listen to and watch Bruce Pascoe, author of Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident? share excerpts of his book and further research in this digibook. Each chapter has questions for you to consider.
Try weaving. Research possible weaving materials. Find different materials then compare the weaving results.
Be inspired by nature and write a song or poem about plants.
Create a basic square weave using some thick cardboard, string or twine, masking or sticky tape and weaving material.
Make a cookbook of your favourite bush food recipes or design a menu using inspiration from Tully State High School students’ deadly bush foods dinner.
Create scientific drawings of plants you can see at home or in your neighbourhood or just draw or paint pictures of plants for pleasure.
Find pictures of woven fish traps then design your own.
Find examples of woven objects that have become valuable artworks here in Australia or from different cultures around the world.
Create a map of a local area with symbols to show different plants and other features.
Investigate the environmental art movement. Explain what is meant environmental art and prepare a report on an artist you found interesting.
Investigate different ways of propagating plants and experiment with different propagation techniques.
Research the nutritional value of native plants and develop arguments for utilising more native crops in our food sources.
