Curriculum resources

Students explore First Nations perspectives and storytelling through poetry, and examine a selection of poems and how literary techniques convey key messages and emotions. Students respond to the poems, create their own poem and dramatise it, applying the techniques explored throughout the unit.

Students use drama to investigate the perspectives of people involved in first contact events. They learn about how representing multiple perspectives in historical stories helps individuals develop intercultural understanding and helps communities to value diversity.

Students explore First Nations Peoples’ unique relationship with and responsibility to care for Country. They learn about ways of caring for Country and how knowledge has been passed down, and practices adapted to each geographic location and available resources. Students reflect on their role in protecting biodiversity in local areas and beyond.

Students examine the ecological importance of the Daintree Rainforest and learn about the Daintree’s Traditional Custodians – Eastern Kuku Yalanji People. Students also learn how, as a decomposer and keystone species, the southern cassowary regenerates the Daintree Rainforest by distributing seeds.

Students learn about water and the ways it enriches life. They explore how water’s perceived, valued and how it connects places in the environment. In looking at how First Nations Peoples understand and care for water, students develop their appreciation for water and water places, to learn to care for and sustain these places.

This unit immerses students in the cultural stories and songs of First Nations Peoples, exploring the important role cultural practices and beliefs play in the development and expression of identity. Students consider the role culture plays in their own lives and reflect on how they might express their unique identity.

Students explore the diversity of Indigenous languages in Australia and how they’ve shaped the Standard Australian English used today. Students look at the historical context of European records of Indigenous languages, and consider how colonisation and the loss of Indigenous languages has impacted First Nations people and Country.

Students explore the relationship between pattern and symmetry in mathematical equations and as a tool to estimate and predict outcomes. Students will appreciate the central role that pattern, symmetry, and scientific thinking and processes in mathematics and science play in Indigenous life and cultures.

Students investigate properties of natural materials through investigation, experiments and research. They learn how First Nations Peoples apply scientific knowledges to create tools, clothing and artworks. Students learn how the diversity of Australia’s materials defines the design of everyday items.

Explore how First Nations cultures, and target language cultures, express identity through art, dance and music. Students build language skills, cultural understanding and creativity through inquiry, reflection and a final project of their choice.

Students explore musical styles of First Nations musicians, the use of instruments and language/s in their music, and how culture can be shared through song. Students then create and present their own composition inspired by aspects of First Nations music explored in their learning.

In this unit, students explore how First Nations people use stories and art to connect to Country. Students identify a special place to them, creating artworks inspired by that special place, and analyse the visual contentions used by First Nations artists, as well as the connection to Country the artworks represent.

Students explore the impacts of feral animals on Country and culture, and the role First Nations rangers play in protecting Australia’s unique flora and fauna. Students use online research, flowcharts and algorithms, culminating with the creation of an ebook.

Students learn how we can use scientific knowledge of erosion and weathering to better protect and preserve sites of cultural significance of First Nations Peoples. Students experiment on different materials to see erosion and weathering in action.

First Nations people are using media arts to share stories and keep culture strong. Students explore podcasts, music videos, animations, virtual reality and other media art projects that have been generated by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creators. Students keep a blog (digital or written) to reflect on their learning each week.

Students inquire into the impact of colonisation on people and places throughout the late 1700s and 1800s. They look at the causes and effects of change on different groups of people, particularly First Nations Peoples, and the environment. Students explore varying perspectives on key aspects of colonisation.

Students examine literary texts by First Nations people that depict impactful events. They explore aspects of the texts that convey historical context, investigate narrative voices in the texts, and analyse the responses these voices evoke.

Students explore how First Nations Peoples use knowledges of the structural features and behaviours of some animals and plants. They learn about Australia’s unique plant and animal diversity, and how First Nations Peoples to use and manage this through ancestral knowledge systems and practices.

Students use a grid reference system to describe locations, and use landmarks and directional language to describe routes. Students learn how First Nations people in Australia have designed sophisticated maps for thousands of years.

Students explore sustainable Indigenous resource management practices. Students engage with perspectives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples about how relationship to Country shapes decision-making, and they examine a geographical site to show how the environment was altered to sustain ways of living.

In this science resource, students will test predictions by gathering data and using evidence to develop explanations of observable facts and events. They’ll examine First Nations Peoples’ contributions to, and the importance of, Indigenous astronomy stories and knowledge to understand phenomena from the land, sky, sea and waterways.

Students learn how, in the early 1800s, European colonists sought a passage across the Blue Mountains to find resources for the growing colony at Sydney Cove. Students analyse sources, including diaries and art, to explore how expanding the colony impacted both First Nations Peoples and colonisers at Sydney Cove and their local area.

This unit explores protest songs of the 20th and 21st centuries from Australia and around the world, looking closely at the techniques employed by artists to persuade audiences to their way of thinking. Of particular focus are persuasive techniques: emotive language, simile, metaphor, personification, repetition, alliteration and rhyme.

Explore how First Nations cultures, and target language cultures, express identity through art, dance and music. Students build language skills, cultural understanding and creativity through inquiry, reflection and a final project of their choice.

Explore how First Nations Peoples use science to select and change materials. Students investigate natural materials, design tools using local resources, and explore reversible and irreversible changes through cultural knowledge and practical experiments.

Students explore fairness in Australia’s government by comparing Western and First Nations approaches to land, law and leadership. They consider the impacts of colonisation on First Nations Peoples, and end the unit by planning a real-world civic response that promotes justice and inclusion.

Students learn about First Nation Peoples knowledges of the sky and the ways observing the night sky can inform ways of timekeeping. They view stories, pictures, dance and petroglyphs to develop their understanding of sky Country and better understand its significance to First nations people.

Students read short novels by First Nations authors and explore authors’ styles. They analyse the elements and themes in the works to find out how style can be connected to culture and personal experiences.

In small reading groups students explore themes in novels by First Nations authors. They experience a story through the lens of the author and examine characters, settings and events. This learning is then applied in group discussion and writing activities.

Students undertake an inquiry into First Nations storytellers and cultural narratives, and the art of dramatic storytelling and elements of filmmaking. They show their responses through making a short film that tells a story of First Nations identity and resilience.

This unit explores the relationship between habitats and survival of living things and how the knowledges of First Nations Peoples about Country allowed different species to thrive for millennia. Students investigate changing physical conditions by creating their own experiment.

This resource combines ACHASSK134 and ACHASSI126. Students analyse sources to investigate Federation and the related stereotyping and over-generalisation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Students explore the Constitution, the lack of Indigenous voices in its development, and the ongoing fight for recognition.

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 gain a basic understanding of symmetry, lines of symmetry, transformations of rotation by multiples of ninety degrees, and reflection transformations by exploring these concepts in the context of storytelling and cultural symbols of First Nations Peoples. Students explore maths concepts in the context of daily life experiences.

English in Australia has many influences. The rich diversity of Indigenous languages have helped to develop different varieties of English and influence the vocabulary of Standard Australian English. By understanding these contributions we show respect for all languages in Australia and can describe and understand this land more fully.

Students learn about Indigenous ecological knowledge and fire management practices. They investigate how Indigenous knowledge continues to be used today to look after plants, animals and the landscape; and how the science of reversible or irreversible change applies.