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How do First Nations Peoples use knowledges of the structural features of plants and animals in everyday life?
Warning — First Nations teachers and students are advised that this curriculum resource may contain images, voices or names of deceased people.
Unit details
Y5 Science
Lesson Time:
40 minutes
Lessons:
12
Duration:
6 weeks
Australian Curriculum
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures cross-curriculum priority.
Unit overview
In this resource, students gain an understanding of:
- how First Nations Peoples use knowledges of the structural features, otherwise known as structural adaptions, of certain species of animals and plants in everyday life
- Australia’s unique plant and animal diversity
- the ways First Nations Peoples continue to use and manage plants and animals through ancestral knowledge systems and practices
- how these expert knowledge systems have been formed over thousands of years through cultural traditions and synchronised relationships between people and Country.
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