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Aboriginal Perspectives (Key words (Sense of Belonging, Social Justice,…

- - - - Student
        
        making the work as relatable as possible
        
        integrating as much Aboriginal perspectives in everyday activities and subjects
      - Families
        
        Keeping families aware of and engaged with what you are teaching
        
        building a strong rapport with the students and making connections to their families
      - Elders
        
        building a relationship with the local Indigenous elders
        
        including the elders in educating the students on indigenous culture
      - Colleages
        
        collaborate experiences with other classes such as excursions to special Indigenous areas or to meet the local Aboriginal elders in the community
        
        Talking to colleges about ideas on how to teach Indigenous studies & supporting each other to do so
- - - - Teaching the statistics in Australia of different cultures, giving students a broader understanding of the diversity in Australia
  - - - Colonisation
        
        Teaching it from the perspectives of the Indigenous Australians
        
        Stolen Generation
        
        Teaching the significance it had in Aboriginal history and how it affected their people
        
        Invasion day/Australia Day
        
        Teaching students how to be respectful on this day in understanding what it means for not only people of European background but people of Indigenous background
        
        Paying respect to the Indigenous people, their culture and the elders that came before them
        
        Policies
        
        white Australia policy
        
        segregation and assimilation
        
        Lesson ideas such as getting the students to write a story putting themselves in those times and imagining the experiences people had.
        
        1967 Referedum
        
        lesson ideas include the students researching and creating a powerpoint on Australian and the Indigenous culture in history
      - History of the Australian Landscape
        
        Teaching the history of how the land was looked after by the Indigenous Australians
        
        Teaching the students about the resources the land provided the Indigenous Australians for over 60, 000 years
        
        Teaching about the shelters that were made to withstand all kinds of weather
        
        Teaching the differences in how the Europeans utilised the land and its resources
    - - Australia # #
        
        Landscapes
        
        Weather- 6 Indigenous seasons
  - - - looking into the flora and fauna at Indigenous sites and looking at how they survive eg; looking at the food chains
    - - get the students to research how the Aboriginals took care of the land and what their ideas about stars are
      - researching about why the Aboriginals would burn off the land eg; looking into what it did to the soil, how it sustained the land
    - - creating damper and manipulating it into different shapes, and then observing what happens when you cook it
  - - - Introducing to the students traditional types of Indigenous music
        
        Looking at how this music is made
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEjMSbrFz7Y
      - Looking at classic Australian music that may be incorporating indigenous understandings
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAONlfoNVuY
      - Indigenous artists
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkKAgWuQGTw
    - - Famous Indigenous art pieces
      - Looking into how Visual Arts were created in the Aboriginal culture
        
        Lessons ideas such as having the students create their own artwork
      - Looking into what purposes Visual Arts had in the Indigenous culture and their history
    - - Students can learn and present traditional Indigenous dance #
    - - Students can play out traditional Dreamingtime Stories
      - Students can create their own dreamtime stories and act them out
  - - - In teaching Aboriginal Languages, teachers need to take into consideration that consent and permission needs to be approved by owners of the language eg; Local Aboriginal Elders of the community #
        
        Lesson Ideas
        
        Have Aboriginal elders or an elder come into the classroom to teach the students a few traditional words from their language
        
        Go out into the community (excursion) to meet Aboriginal elders both learning about the land, the culture and language
        
        Use ICT and other resources such as books to learn about the Aboriginal languages- specifically the local languages