Aboriginal Family Heritage

Students will discuss their own families and compare this to the structures of First Nations families through food, shelter and intractive activities. 

• Participate in a matching game, comparing the features of objects used by First Nations families.
• Explore the Garden to discover plants that are used for food by First Nations People.
• Examine a Gunya and discuss how shelters are made and used by Aboriginal families, could you help build one?
• Complete a family tree activity to compare First Nations family structures with that of their own.

• Students will compare their family heritage with the heritage of others.
• Identify similarities and differences between individuals and families as well as distinguish between the past, present and future. 
• Understand important events in their own lives and how these commemorations may differ across cultures and time.
• Identify and compare the features of objects from the past and present.

History

• Communicates stories of their own family heritage and the heritage of others (HTe-1)
• Demonstrates developing skills of historical inquiry and communication (HTe-2)

Science

• Explores the characteristics, needs and uses of living things (STe-3LW-ST)
• Identifies that objects are made of materials that have observable properties (STe-4MW-ST)
• Recognise that plants and animals can be used as food, or materials (fibres) for clothing and shelter (ACTDEK003)
• Explore a range of foods obtained from plants and animals, for example: customary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander foods