Curriculum resources

Students explore length using both variable and uniform informal units of measurement and investigate ways First Nations people use measurement in everyday life. Students create a weaving artwork using informal measurement to share their learning with others.

Students explore connection to Country and place through Indigenous stories, including Dreaming stories and those by contemporary Indigenous authors. Students use stories to explore the language features of texts and oral storytelling.

This resource combines ACHASSI128 and ACHASSI123. It‘s designed to show the effects of the past by examining contemporary statistics and data about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Students research and analyse case studies where the past has influenced the present – language, population distribution and racism.

Students explore ancient and contemporary chemistry techniques that people, including First Nations Peoples of Australia, use to separate substances from mixtures. They investigate how particles in pure substances and mixtures can be modelled and how differences in the properties of substances can be used to separate mixtures.

Students learn about First Nations business ownership successes and barriers, and begin to understand First Nations trade before colonisation began. They complete a case study of a First Nations business, and devise a business idea that contributes to their community, in response to their learning.

Students explore First Nations perspectives in Australian music through listening, lyric analysis and discussion. They collaborate to develop and present original musical responses to the idea of identity, deepening their understanding of First Nations contributions and fostering cultural harmony.

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.

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.

Students explore First Nations perspectives in Australian music through listening, lyric analysis and discussion. They collaborate to develop and present original musical responses to the idea of identity, deepening their understanding of First Nations contributions and fostering cultural harmony.

This unit encourages students to engage with and appreciate a diverse range of First Nations Dreaming stories. By exploring modernised texts, which have transformed previously oral texts into contemporary forms, students begin to appreciate the cultural importance of Dreaming stories.

This unit gives students an understanding of Indigenous peoples around the world. They learn about the introduction of the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and then conduct a detailed examination of the contemporary issue of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child removals, including current strategies for reduction.