Essential Question

How do First Nations games support fair play, skill development and inclusion?

Warning — First Nations teachers and students are advised that this curriculum resource may contain images, voices or names of deceased people.

Unit details

Y7–Y8 Health and PE
Lesson Time: 40 minutes
Lessons: 8
Duration: 4 weeks
Australian Curriculum
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures cross-curriculum priority.

Unit overview

Students will:

  • identify aspects of fair play, skill development and inclusion in traditional games played by First Nations people
  • consider how rules, equipment and scoring systems support skill development, fair play and inclusion
  • participate in First Nations games
  • consider how these games contributed to the development of First Nations cultures
  • begin to understand how colonisation interrupted First Nations cultural practices and how it continues to have an effect today
  • consider how games that practise fair play and inclusion can contribute to reconciliation
  • apply and demonstrate their learning by proposing inclusivity modifications to a First Nations game.

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