Aboriginal Studies

This resource supports teachers who will be attending Gibberagong EEC for a field excursion. The learning tasks included in this package are designed to be programmed and completed by students prior to and after attending the excursion. Students maximise their learning when they have engaged in learning tasks both prior to an excursion and upon returning to school. Students develop a better understanding of the content, knowledge, skills, values and attitudes when they have engaged in pre-learning about the excursion site, relevant content linked to the unit of study and associated learning outcomes; and post-excursion learning tasks add value to the excursion visit and consolidates their learning.

Lessons 1 - 4 are pre-visit activities.

Lessons 5 - 8 are post-visit activities.

A Student Workbook accompanies this resource and can be downloaded below.

History

HT2-2 describes and explains how significant individuals, groups and events contributed to changes in the local community over time

HT2-4 describes and explains effects of British colonisation in Australia

HT2-5 applies skills of historical inquiry and communication

Geography

GE2-1 examines features and characteristics of places and environments

GE2-2 describes the ways people, places and environments interact

GE2-3 examines differing perceptions about the management of places and environments

GE2-4 acquires and communicates geographical information using geographical tools for inquiry

Other KLA's addressed in some lessons are PDHPE, English and Creative Arts

Key inquiry question

• Who lived here first and how do we know?

Inquiry questions

• What was life like for Aboriginal Peoples before the arrival of the Europeans?

• What is Country and why is it important to Aboriginal peoples?

• How can we care for these special environments?

Teacher Programming Resource (Google Doc) or (PDF)

Student Workbook (Word version) or (PDF)