Students investigate how Indigenous scientific knowledge, through observation, has informed cultural and land management practices for millennia, enabling the land, sea, plants, animals and humans to survive and thrive.

Students explore heat transfer in day-to-day life and observe cooking methods at home as examples. Students learn about First Nations cooking methods and bush tucker to better understand the cultural importance of food.

Students explore sustainable First Nations resource management with a focus on relationship to Country in decision-making, and they examine a geographical site and how it was altered to sustain ways of living.

Students consider First Nations and Western systems for classifying organisms. They examine and recreate food chains and food webs, then apply their learning in a biological survey of their local area.

Students investigate the use of fire to regulate biotic and abiotic factors in ecosystems. They explore human relationships with ecosystems and ways First Nations people use scientific knowledges to maintain Country.