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Humanities and social sciences / Year 2 / Knowledge and Understanding / Geography

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Curriculum content descriptions

The connections of people in Australia to people in other places in Australia and across the world (ACHASSK050)

Elaborations
  • examining the ways people are connected to other places (for example, through relatives, friends, things people buy or obtain, holidays, sport, family origin, beliefs, or through environmental practices such as where their waste ends up and its effect on people there)
  • exploring how their place may be connected to events that have happened in other places (for example, sporting events such as the Olympic Games or natural disasters like the tsunami in Indonesia)
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural understanding
ScOT terms

Cultural identity,  Sense of place,  Cultural awareness,  Globalisation,  Social networking

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Farms and people's connections to them

  • TLF-IDM019439

This is a teacher resource containing a sequence of activities for investigating farms and the connections that diverse groups of people have to them. It contains material to assist planning, implementing and assessing a study of different Australian farms, the primary resources that come from farms, and connections that ...

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GeogSpace: year 2 - exemplar

  • TLF-IDM013313

This is a web page consisting of an overview and two illustrations of practice on the GeogSpace website, a resource for teachers. The focus is on a student's understanding of the earth, as represented by a world map and a globe. Illustration 1 is a set of activities using a globe of the world as a model of the earth. Illustration ...

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Sharing stories: culture

  • TLF-IDM014339

This is a rich resource about the many intertwined aspects of Aboriginal cultures, including law, Country and Dreaming. It consists of an introduction, a teacher guide, three films made by Aboriginal students ('The Ngatji and paddle steamer', 'Bilwal medicine' and 'Thunderman') and two video interviews, one with Jarlmadangah ...

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Farming and the seasons (the farming story) - unit 2

  • TLF-IDM017578

This is a teacher resource that contains items for planning lessons about farming life and the seasons. It contains a simple program outline and supporting documents that can be downloaded or printed for students, including a story map broken into seasons, a table of farm activities and suitable clothes by season, a tree ...

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Sharing stories: films by location

  • TLF-IDM014368

This is a map providing links to films about culture, ancestral beings, beliefs and country from eight Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander communities around Australia. The films are 'The story of Girbar' from the Thabu clan; 'Miiku and Tinta' from the Umpila people; 'Moon and the gecko' from the Paakantji people; 'Bunjil ...

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Yolngu sea country: painting on bark

  • TLF-IDM013127

This is a resource about the importance of painting on bark for the Yolngu people of the coastal region of north-east Arnhem Land. It consists of explanatory text, an illustration, a short video, and related links. The text explains that painting is an expression of the Law for Country, and says where the barks, paints ...

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Yarra Healing: Yarra Dreaming

  • TLF-IDM013341

This is a video (2:42 min) of a retelling of a Dreaming story about the creation of the Yarra River in Victoria. The story is told by Bryon Powel, the former Site Protection Officer with the Kulin Nation Cultural Heritage Organisation, to an audience of adults and several children who are seen in the opening and closing ...

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Bob Burruwal and Lena Yarinkura, 'Wyarra family group', 2010

  • TLF-IDM014310

This is a sculpture by Rembarrnga artist Bob Burruwal (b1952) and Rembarrnga/Kune artist Lena Yarinkura (b1948) depicting spirit figures - male and female, young and old - standing near their camp dog. The sculpture is shown as an enlargeable image. This work was exhibited as a part of the second National Indigenous Art ...

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Koorie Cross-Curricular Protocols for Victorian Government Schools

  • TLF-IDM019898

The Koorie Cross-Curricular Protocols for Victorian Government Schools are applicable to schools intending to develop activities that involve the use of Koorie cultural expressions, including stories, songs, instrumental music, dances, plays, ceremonies, rituals, performances, symbols, drawings, designs, paintings, poetry, ...

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Big sky sunsets at Windorah, Qld

  • TLF-IDM017433

In this clip the narrator will show you a place that she likes to visit. This place is near Windorah in Queensland. The narrator says that this is 'big sky country'. She likes to sit in the sand dunes and watch the colours around her change as the sun goes down.

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Yolngu sea country: clans and kinship

  • TLF-IDM013125

This is a resource about the kinship system of the Yolngu people of Blue Mud Bay and the Gove peninsula in Arnhem Land. Consisting of an information sheet and an illustration of members of the Marika family, it explains that the principal element of the Yolngu kinship system is membership of a particular clan in either ...

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