Curriculum resources

Students examine how current carbon-dating science supports First Nations Peoples’ ancient oral histories of and long presence on this continent. Students research and present on ancient artefact locations and learn how advances in technologies are giving a greater insight into the continent’s past.

Students explore challenges in native food production and food access within Australia’s biomes. They consider issues within these biomes, as well as management solutions and programs. Students evaluate existing programs for their effectiveness in managing food production and access in Australia.

Students investigate how and why conflict occurred across the colonial frontier and the impacts on First Nations Peoples. Students analyse, compare and evaluate primary and secondary sources, investigating perspectives and events to understand the period and its significance to our nation’s history.

In this unit, students focus on the histories, experiences and legacies of non-European migrants and First Nations Peoples in the pre-Federation context, through the analysis of primary and secondary sources. Students demonstrate their learning in an individual research and source analysis assessment.

Students investigate ways First Nations artists explore identity, values and cultures through their visual arts practice, and examine their own. Students build awareness of cultural appropriation and how to avoid it. Using self-designed symbols, they create artworks and reflect on that process.

Students gain an understanding of how First Nations Peoples can use theatre practices to challenge perceptions of identity. Students use experiential activities to explore identity and learn how theatre can raise awareness of oppression and challenge us to acknowledge Australia’s shared history.

Students explore how First Nations Australian authors reflect unique ways of being, knowing, thinking and doing. This is achieved by reviewing the early history of First Nations literature and the difficulties of storytelling, and by analysing and contextualising protest poetry, drama and contemporary autobiographical writing.

Using the case study of January 26/Australia Day, students investigate links between history and national identity, and explore reasons for the contested nature of the terms settlement and invasion. They learn about academic history debates and how and why narratives often conflict with one another.

In this biological sciences unit, students investigate disorders of feedback systems and effects on the development of products to address issues. Students research the relationships between First Nations healing and biomedical models in contemporary medical systems, and present findings to peers.