Australian History Series: Foundation - Personal and Family Histories by Ready-Ed Publications

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' Ready-Ed book preview. Publications Title: Australian History Series Foundation Level Personal and Family Histories © 2012 Ready-Ed Publications Printed in Australia Author: Lindsay Marsh Illustrators: Terry Allen, Melinda Brezmen, Alison Mutton

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Contents This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. Teachers’ Notes National Curriculum Links

Section 1: My Family Teachers’ Notes Family My Family My Family Box More Of My Family Families Are Related Where Does My Family Come From 1? Where Does My Family Come From 2? My Family Shield A Special Family Member My Family Kite

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Section 2: Family Structures Teachers’ Notes 20-21 Family Quilt 22 Types Of Families 1 23 Types Of Families 2 24 Types Of Families 3 25 Family Structure Tree 26 Family Roles 27 Indigenous Family Structures And Roles 1 28 Indigenous Family Structures And Roles 2 29 Section 3: Celebrating Past Events Teachers’ Notes Birthdays

Easter 1 Easter 2 Easter 3 ANZAC Day 1 ANZAC Day 2 Australia Day My Celebrations Welcome To Country Ceremonies 1 Welcome To Country Ceremonies 2 Welcome To Country Ceremonies 3 NAIDOC Week

Section 4: Family Stories From The Past Teachers’ Notes 47-49 Photographs Tell Stories 50 Pictures Tell Stories 1 51 Pictures Tell Stories 2 52 Pictures Tell Stories 3 53 Pictures Tell Stories 4 54 Aboriginal Storytelling – Teachers’ Notes 55 Aboriginal Storytelling 56 My Story In Pictures 57 Artefacts Tell Stories 58 My Special Artefact 59 Artefact Rubbings 60 Oral Histories 61 Different Views 62

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Teachers’ Notes

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. Personal and Family Histories is written for students living in Australia who are studying History in Kindy and Pre-Primary. This teacher-friendly resource encourages students to develop their historical knowledge and understanding, and demonstrate historical skills. The book is divided into four comprehensive sections which connect to the National Curriculum. Section One requires students to think about their own family. They are asked to identify members of their family and start to understand how each family member is related. They are also encouraged to recognise that people in their family may have been born and raised in different places around the world. Section Two focuses on different types of families. It helps students to understand that not all families are the same, but all families are of equal value. It introduces terms such as ‘nuclear’, ‘only child’, ‘adoptive’, ‘extended’ and ‘blended’. It makes students aware of the family structure which is unique to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Section Three explores why the students celebrate certain days in the year. It also looks at the ways in which they celebrate these special days. ‘Welcome to Country’ ceremonies are examined in some detail. The final section of the book looks at how we know about the past and how each student can find out about his/her family’s past. At the beginning of each section in the book are detailed Teachers’ Notes which comment on every activity sheet. These notes suggest ways of introducing each activity, provide answers, list useful websites and outline possible extension activities. Every effort has been made to make each activity sheet visually appealing so that the students find the work accessible and interesting. Students will learn through cutting and pasting, drawing, circling, highlighting, creating, writing, asking questions, comparing, sequencing, finding sources, matching, examining sources and labelling.

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National Curriculum Links Historical Knowledge and Understanding ACHHK001: Who the people in their family are, where they were born and raised and how they are related to each other • identifying the different members of a family, (for example mother, father, caregiver, sister, brother, grandparent, aunty, uncle, cousin) and creating simple family trees with pictures or photographs (if possible using ICT) to show the relationship between family members • naming family members, finding out where they were born and raised and placing their photographs, drawings and names on a classroom world map

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. ACHHK002: The different structures of families and family groups today, and what they have in common • considering a range of family structures, (for example nuclear, only child families, large families, single parent families, extended families, blended, adoptive parent, grandparent families) as well as kinship groups, tribes and villages • using images and stories to identify similarities and differences between students’ families and those of other children (in their class and in stories about children in other places, e.g. the countries of Asia) • exploring family structures of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, e.g. where children belong to extended families in which there are specific roles and responsibilities to ensure safety and wellbeing ACHHK003: How they, their family and friends commemorate past events that are important to them • making a calendar of commemorative events that students, their family and friends celebrate, for example birthdays, religious festivals (such as Easter, Ramadan, Budda day, feast of Passover, family reunions and community commemorations (NAIDOC week and ANZAC Day) and discussing why they are important • discussing ‘Welcome to Country’ and recognising that the country, place and traditional custodians of the land or sea are acknowledged at ceremonies and events as a mark of respect ACHHK004: How the stories of families and the past can be communicated, for example through photographs, artefacts, books, oral histories, digital media, and museums • engaging with the oral traditions, painting and music of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and recognising that the past is communicated through stories passed down from generation to generation • sharing the story of an object from home, describing its importance to the family, e.g. photographs, old toys, statues, medals, artwork, jewellery and creating a class museum • recognising that stories of the past may differ depending on who is telling them, e.g. listening to stories about the same event related by two different people (such as mother and grandmother) Historical Skills ACHHS015: Sequence familiar objects and events • ordering significant personal events or milestones using photographs or drawings, e.g. walking, talking, the birth of a sibling, moving house, an illness, an achievement, first day of school ACHHS016: Distinguish between the past, present and future • using simple terms to denote time when students talk about ‘now’, ‘yesterday’, ‘today’, ‘tomorrow’ ACHHS017: Pose questions about the past using sources provided • inquiring from members of their families where they were born or raised • posing questions about artefacts, for example ‘Is it old or new?’, ‘What was it used for?’ ACHHS018: Explore a range of sources about the past • identifying relevant features of photographs of family and friends • describing interesting features of an object and photographs connected to the past

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ACHHS019: Identify and compare features of objects from the past and present • comparing objects from the past with those of the present using ‘older’, ‘newer’

ACHHS021: Develop a narrative about the past • retelling a story about a significant event a student’s family celebrates or commemorates, e.zg. birthdays, weddings, christenings, religious festivals • relating a story about their own life or describing an event they have experienced (orally or through pictures and photographs) 5

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My Family

Family (page 9)

More Of My Family (page 12)

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Ask the children to identify each family member on the activity sheet.

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If they cannot read the words they can probably tell who the family members are from the pictures.

If children have particularly large families they might like to draw some more bubbles on the back of the sheet.

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Talk about each family member. Ask them to raise their hands if they have a brother or a sister, etc.

Encourage the children to talk about the people who they have drawn/identified, and say how they relate to one another.

Families Are Related (page 13)

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The children might have different names for their grandmothers and grandfathers - ask them about these names and write these names on the board. Talk about the relationships between each family member, e.g. your grandmother is the mother of your mother/father, etc.

My Family (page 10) •

Ask the children to draw the people in their immediate family. Discuss the term ‘immediate’.

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Ask the children to think about size as they draw. For example mums and dads should be bigger than themselves, etc. Older children may be able to label the people in their pictures. Write the words that they might need on the board to help them.

Family Box (page 11) •

You could enlarge this page to A3 for younger students.

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As an extension activity or homework, children could go to: www.houseofnames. com/?a=54323-172. When the children type in their surnames they will access their family coat of arms. A picture of the coat of arms will appear on the top right hand side of the screen. Students could print this out and bring into class.

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Enlarge this family tree to A3 so that students have plenty of room to fill it in and add to it if applicable.

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Create different family trees which show students’ cousins, etc.

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As the students fill in their family trees discuss the relationships between family members.

Where Does My Family Come From 1? (page 14) •

Students will need to complete part of this sheet for homework as they will probably need to ask their parents for the information. This will give them the opportunity to demonstrate ACHHS017.

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Keeping pictures of world flags in the classroom will assist children with this activity.

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As an extension to this activity, students could draw or identify a number of flags which show where family members were born.

Where Does My Family Come From 2?

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To help students with this activity enlarge the sheet to A3 size.

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Students might only manage to mark one

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Section 1

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As an extension activity you could create a class map using the information from the students’ activity sheets.

Suggested Additional Activities For Section One •

Students could create their family out of Plasticine.

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Students could make a ‘my family shoebox’. Each student should fill a shoebox with objects or photographs which are symbolic of each person in his/her family.

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Create a picture graph to display in the classroom which records how many people are in each child’s family.

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Ask the students to draw around one of their hands on a piece of card. They can then cut out the shape. On each finger they can write the name of a family member. If they want to include more family members they can draw around both of their hands. This activity could be entitled My Family In Five or My Family In Ten.

My Family Shield (page 16) •

Shields can be discussed and displayed so that children understand that not all families are the same.

A Special Family Member (page 17) •

Students will need a thick lead pencil to record fingerprints. They should create a large smudge on a piece of paper with a lead pencil, then press the tip of the finger into the smudge. They should then press the marked fingertip onto the activity sheet. There are generally three different types of fingerprints. They may be interested to see which type they are.

Loop

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Whorl

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My Family Kite (page 18) •

Students can colour their family kites if they wish.

Family

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A family is made up of lots of different people.

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mother (mum)

father (dad)

brother

sister

step-brother

step-sister

baby

grandmother

grandfather

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My Family

Everybody belongs to a family. Think about the family that you belong to.

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ď ą Tell me about you and your family.

My name is _________________________. I am ______ years old. I have ____ sister(s). I have ____ brother(s).

ď ą Draw the people in your immediate family.

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Family Box

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This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview.  Decorate this box by following the numbered steps.

Family

1. Draw how you feel when you are with your family. 2. Print the names of the people in your family. 3. Print your surname. 4. Draw the people in your family. 5. Draw the house that you live in. 6. Draw something that your family likes to do together.

Once you have decorated your box… • Cut out the box and fold the tabs along the dashed lines. • Put something inside the box that reminds you of your family.

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More Of My Family There are people in my family who don’t live with me.

 Draw or write the names of the people in your family who don’t This live withis you.a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview.

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Families Are Related

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Family trees show how family members are related.

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. ď ą Fill in the family tree to show how one family member relates to another. Use words and/or pictures.

Great Grandfather

Great Grandmother

Grandmother

Grandfather

Grandmother

Grandfather

Father

Mother

Sister

Brother

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Where Does My Family Come From? 1

Members of your family may have been born and raised in different places.

ď ą Tell me about your family. This is a Ready-Ed Publications' I was born in:_______________________________________ book preview. My mother was born in:______________________________ My mother was raised in:_____________________________ My father was born in:_______________________________ My father was raised in:______________________________ My grandfather was born in:__________________________ My grandfather was raised in:_________________________ My grandmother was born in:_________________________ My grandmother was raised in:________________________ ď ą Draw a flag to show where one of your family members was born.

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Canada

Alaska

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South Africa

Egypt

Italy

Poland

India

Australia

Indonesia

Mongolia

China

Russia

Members of your family may have been born and raised in different places.

Brazil

United Kingdom

Greenland

New Zealand

Papua New Guinea

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ď ą On the world map, mark all the places that your family members come from.

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Where Does My Family Come From? 2

My Family Shield

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Years ago people decorated shields with pictures and symbols to show who they were and where they came from.

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1. Write and decorate your family name. 2. Draw a flag to show the place where you were born. Colour it. 3. Draw a map to show where you live. Write the name of the country inside the map. 4. Draw or write the name of a special relative. Say how they are related to you. (1)

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A Special Family Member

People in my family might be the same as me or different than me.

ď ą Choose member and fill in the table. This isa family a Ready-Ed Publications' The family member who I have chosen is______________________ book preview. Me

Family Member

Same (S) or Different (D)?

Hair Colour

Eye Colour

Height

Fingerprints

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My Family Kite The people in my family are special to me.

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Section 2:Publications' This is a Ready-Ed book preview. Family Structures

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Family Structures

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. Family Quilt (page 22)

Family Structure Tree (page 26)

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Create a class quilt by joining students’ squares from this activity side by side on the wall in a large rectangular shape.

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Discuss how not all squares are the same because families are often different. You might like to introduce the term ‘nuclear family’ when looking at the quilt so that students have an understanding that a nuclear family consists of two parents and children.

Types Of Families 1 (page 23) •

From this activity students should begin to understand that some families are large and others are small, that not everybody has siblings and some students live with extended family members or their grandparents. It doesn’t matter if students cannot find an example for each situation, as long as they begin to understand that not all families are the same.

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Before students sit in groups go through each type of family listed on the table. Terms like ‘blended’ and ‘single parent’ may be new to them. You could create a bar or picture graph to display in class using the information from the students’ activity sheets. Analyse the graph to determine the most and least popular family structures.

Types Of Families 3 (page 25)

To create a class family structure tree, you will need to find a dead branch and place it in a colourful pot filled with soil. Once each student has cut out his/her leaf, he/ she can tie a loop of string to the end and hook it on a section of the branch. Alternatively, you can cut a trunk and branches out of brown construction paper and stick the leaves to it to create a wall display. Photocopy the leaf outline onto different coloured bits of paper to create a more visually appealing tree.

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Discuss other roles that the children do that are not on the sheet. Talk about mums’ and dads’ roles and compare students’ responses. Discuss how roles within Australian families are changing.

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This activity sheet will need introducing. Students will need to be aware who Indigenous Australians are – although some may already know.

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Tell them that Indigenous Australians were the first people to set foot in Australia. It is believed that they walked to Australia on land bridges, which are now underwater.

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This activity will help consolidate students' understanding about different family structures.

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Students can paste pictures inside the boxes instead of drawing.

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They have lived in Australia for thousands of years and their family structure is very special.

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Tell them that clans can consist of as many as 500 people.

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Family Structures

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People in a clan speak the same language and so are known as language groups.

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Some clans speak the language of other clans nearby.

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You can talk about the fact that roles within Australian families are changing and that roles within some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families are no longer traditional.

Suggested Additional Activities For Section Two •

Cut out pictures of families in magazines and make a collage. Discuss the different family structures.

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Read books that feature different family structures, e.g. blended, single parent, extended, adoptive, etc. Some suggested texts are:

The Best Single Mom in the World: How I Was Adopted by Mary Zisk The Family Book by Todd Parr Love is a Family by Roma Downey Who’s in a Family? by Robert Skutch Welcome Home Little Baby by Lisa Harper The Magical Friendship Garden by Rebekah Barlow Rounce • Place students into two circles (an inside circle and an outside circle). Students face each other and take turns talking about their families. The inside circle rotates. •

On a large sheet of paper draw an outline of a body. Ask the students to call out words that are associated with ‘family’. Record the words inside the body.

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Family Quilt

Some families are the same. Some families are different. All families are great!

1. Write your the middle of the ‘quilt patch’ . This isnameainReady-Ed Publications' 2. Decorate it with pictures/photographs of your family. book preview. 3. Cut out and give it to your teacher to create a class ‘family quilt’ to display.

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Types Of Families 1

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There are different types of families. The type of family which you belong to is special.

 Find and someone in your classPublications' who…. This is name a Ready-Ed is an only child … has one sibling… book preview.

has two siblings…

has four or more siblings …

has pets in his/her family …

lives with their grandparents …

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Types Of Families 2

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There are different types of families. The type of family which you belong to is special.

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ď ą Sit in a group. Place a tick next to the family type that you belong to. Do the same for three other people in your group. Name:

Nuclear Family

Single Parent Family Grandparent Family

Blended Family

Extended Family

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Types Of Families 3

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There are different types of families. The type of family which you belong to is special.

ď ą Draw the different types of families. This is a Ready-Ed Publications' Nuclear Family Single Parent Family book preview.

Blended Family

Extended Family

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Family Structure Tree

All families are different. The family that you belong to is special.

1. Draw the people in your family. Publications' This is a Ready-Ed 2. Write who they are. 3. Label the type of family structure that you belong to. preview. 4. Cut outbook the leaf.

Inside the leaf:

5. Write your name on the back of the leaf.

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Family Roles

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People in families often have roles to play. Think about the role that you play in your family.

 Placeis a tickanext to the things that you do to help your family. This Ready-Ed Publications' book preview.

 Put the rubbish in the bin.

 Help with the shopping.

 Water the plants.

 Clean the car.

 Keep the pets clean and fed.

 Help with the dishes.

Draw how you feel when you help your family. Discuss or write why you feel this way. ______________________________

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Indigenous Family Structures And Roles 1 Indigenous families have a special structure.

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' • Indigenous families join together to form bands. • Bands join together to form clans. book preview. • Clans live peacefully because the people in a clan all have roles to play. • The kinship system decides people’s roles.

clan band family

Draw lines to match the symbols to the roles. Some people in a clan have to look after the sick. Some people in a clan are chosen to pay another person’s debts.

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Indigenous Family Structures And Roles 2 Men do different work than women in indigenous clans.

ď ą Matchis thea pictures to the roles. This Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. Men hunt large animals.

Men make weapons for hunting and produce tools.

Women make baskets, mats and string.

Women gather plants, seeds and insects.

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ANZAC Day 1 and 2

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Students can share with the rest of the class what they did to celebrate their last birthday. This will give them the opportunity to develop a narrative about the past and demonstrate ACHHS021.

Students could make a birthday card for someone whose birthday is approaching.

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This activity sheet will need introducing to some, if not all, students. There may be some students in your class who are already aware of Jesus and the Christian belief that he died so that Christians could live and then rose from the dead. Try to explain the story as simply as possible so that the students understand what we are celebrating at Easter: Jesus (who had many followers) was arrested on a Thursday after eating with his disciples (The Last Supper) and was ordered by Pontius Pilate and King Herod to be crucified the next day on Friday (Good Friday). After his crucifixion his body was placed in a tomb with a boulder at the entrance so his followers, who wanted him to be King, could not access his body. On Sunday (Easter Sunday), women went to the tomb to prepare his body for burial but the boulder had been rolled aside and the body had gone. Jesus had risen from the dead. On Easter Sunday we eat chocolate eggs because eggs symbolise new life and the cross on hot cross buns represent Jesus’ crucifixion.

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Some background information about ANZAC Day in the form of a class discussion will be useful to students before beginning the activity sheets. You could cover the following information:

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ANZAC stands for Australian (and) New Zealand Army Corps.

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ANZAC Day is celebrated every year on 25th April. It was first celebrated in 1916.

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Today, on ANZAC Day we remember all soldiers who have fought in all wars. ANZAC Day was first established to remember those who fought in World War I. ANZACS were sent to Gallipoli in 1915 to capture the Gallipoli peninsular, an area almost completely surrounded by water, so that they could secure a point from which to capture Constantinople and knock the Turkish out of the war. The ANZACS landed in Gallipoli on 25th April and fought the Ottoman Turkish army. The fighting lasted for over eight months and over 8,000 Australians were killed.

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As an extension activity you could make some ANZAC biscuits in class.

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You could ask an ANZAC to come in to class and talk to the students about his/ her experiences.

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Maybe visit local ANZAC memorials and museums.

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Look at ANZAC artefacts, such as uniforms, badges, etc.

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Log on to: www.anzacday.org.au/ interactives/childhood/puzzles/main. html This site has interactive ‘click and drag’ puzzles displaying images relating to ANZAC day.

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Extension activities could include: decorating blown eggs, baking hot cross buns, and singing ‘Hot Cross Buns’ and ‘Lord of the Dance’.

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Tell the students that the National Flag is not only flown on Australia Day but on other special days, such as: ANZAC Day, United Nations Day and Remembrance Day. Discuss what each part of the flag means. (The Southern Cross represents Australia’s geographical position in the Southern Hemisphere as you can’t see this constellation from the Northern Hemisphere. The Commonwealth Star represents all the different states and territories in Australia, and the Union Jack symbolises the early colonisation of Australia.)

Tell them that there are rules associated with the National Flag. Some are: The flag should not be flown/displayed upside down. It is not to be placed or dropped on the ground or used to cover an object. Faded flags should not be displayed. Tell them that Captain Arthur Phillips and the First Fleet (which consisted of eleven ships carrying convicts, marines, various skilled men such as, surgeons and their families and supplies) set up the first colony in New South Wales on 26th January 1788.

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Brainstorm a list of other celebrations that the students take part in each year before they begin the activity sheet (Christmas Day, Halloween, Melbourne Cup Day, Royal Agricultural Show Days, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day etc.). For extension activities students could create hats for Melbourne Cup Day and show bags for Royal Agricultural Show Day, etc.

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Tell the students that older Aborigines, known as Elders, usually perform the Welcome to Country ceremonies because they have the longest and closest connection with the land.

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Tell the students that it is believed that Indigenous Australians walked from Asia to Australia on land bridges which are said to now be underwater.

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Students should colour the circle on the flag, yellow. The circle represents the sun and yellow ochre. Students should colour the bottom half of the flag, red which represents the red earth and red ochre. They should colour the top half of the flag, black. Black represents the Aboriginal people.

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Students should begin to understand that traditional Aboriginal people were hunter-gatherers, which means that they made their own tools to hunt and gather food and therefore survive.

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Students could draw and write in the balloons in lieu of pasting pictures/ photographs.

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The students should identify the first

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This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. picture as depicting a human fossil or skeleton. Tell them that many indigenous skeletons have been dug up at traditional indigenous burial sites and experts have tested these skeletons to determine the length of time that the Aborigines have inhabited Australia. Some date back thousands and thousands of years and prove that Aborigines were the first people to inhabit Australia.

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Discuss the significance of the boomerang with the children (it is an Aboriginal hunting tool made from resources taken from the land - wood from trees). The Aboriginal people used the boomerang to hunt large animals - which they ate to survive. Explain the significance of the Aboriginal colours (red, black and yellow). Tell the children that black symbolises the people, red symbolises the red earth which they feel a strong connection to, and yellow symbolises the Australian sun.

The students should identify the second picture as rock art. Tell the students that indigenous art work can be found at indigenous rock shelters on the walls. Experts are able to date the art work and understand how long Aborigines have been in Australia.

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The third picture is of a traditional Aboriginal hunting tool. Hunting tools have been dug up and dated, to again show that Aborigines have lived in Australia for a long time and are the traditional owners of the land.

Another day you might like to discuss with the children in Ramadan. This is an important Muslim festival. Muslims follow the Islamic faith:

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“Islam” means submission to the will of God (Allah). Mohammed is Allah’s prophet – he was given the tenets of their faith which he wrote down. This book is known as The Koran.

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Muslims must follow the teachings of the Koran which establishes codes of behaviour, outlines rules about family life, education and business and specifies which foods should be eaten.

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There are five duties that Muslims must fulfil (these are known as the five pillars of Islam). They are: fasting the daylight hours of Ramadan, believing that there is only one God (Allah) and that Mohammad is his prophet, praying in the proper manner at specified times each day (sunrise, noon, mid-afternoon, sunset and at night), the giving of Zakat (a percentage of one’s income to the poor), and fulfilling at least one pilgrimage to Mecca.

The students should identify the man in the picture as an archaeologist who studies artefacts from the near or distant past to learn about different cultures and civilisations. As an extension activity set up sand trays around the classroom to simulate an archaeological dig. Take students to local rock shelters to see rock engravings and paintings, or to a museum which displays indigenous artefacts.

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NAIDOC Week is celebrated in July. The acronym stands for National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee.

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NAIDOC Week celebrates the culture and achievements of the traditional owners of the land.

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When you celebrate your birthday you celebrate a past event – when you were born.

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 Draw how you feel on your birthday.

next birthday?

________________ On your next birthday it will be __________ years since you were born.  Circle the food that you eat on your birthday to celebrate your birth.

 Draw yourself as a baby to show that birthdays celebrate the day when you were born.

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Easter 1 Easter celebrates a past event. The event is Jesus Christ rising from the dead.

 Use the to tell the Easter story. This ispictures a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview.

This year Easter Sunday is on: ______________________________  Draw what you eat on Easter Sunday. Explain why. ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________  Colour who hides the chocolate eggs at Easter.

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Easter 2 Easter celebrates a past event. The event is Jesus Christ rising from the dead.

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ď ą Colour in the puzzle pieces. Cut them out and paste them on to a piece of paper to make an egg. Eggs symbolise new life.

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Easter 3 Easter celebrates a past event. The event is Jesus Christ rising from the dead.

ď ą Colour in the chicken and the egg. Cut out the chicken and the This is a Ready-Ed Publications' egg, then paste the chicken behind the egg. Eggs represent new life. book preview.

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ANZAC Day 1

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ANZAC Day celebrates a past event – all soldiers who have fought in wars around the world.

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 Colour who we remember on ANZAC Day.

 Mark on the calendar when ANZAC Day is: APRIL

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 2 5 26 27 28 29 30

 Colour the place on the map where the ANZACS were sent to fight during World War I.

RUSSIA

Austria hungary

serbia

albania

romania bulgaria

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Constantinople (Istanbul)

Sea of Marmara Gallipoli

turkey syria

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ANZAC Day 2

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ANZAC Day celebrates a past event – all soldiers who have fought in wars around the world.

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 Soldiers who have fought in wars often receive a medal for being brave. Draw a special medal in the box that you think an ANZAC would like to wear.

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Australia Day Australia Day marks a past event â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the day that Captain Arthur Phillips and the First Fleet landed in Australia.

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ď ą The Australian National Flag is flown on Australia Day. Colour it correctly.

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My Celebrations

It is important to celebrate special events with your friends and family.

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Welcome To Country Ceremonies 1

Aborigines were the first people to arrive in Australia. They are the traditional owners of the land. Welcome to Country ceremonies welcome everyone who has arrived in Australia after them, to their land.

This is a Ready-Ed Publications'  Colour the person who usually performs Welcome to Country ceremonies. book preview.

 How did Aborigines arrive in Australia? Colour your answer.

 The Aboriginal flag shows that the Aboriginal people have a very special relationship with Australia because they have lived here for so long. Colour the flag and talk about what each colour means.

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Welcome To Country Ceremonies 2

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' ď ą Aborigines know where to find water in the outback and hunt animals for food. They cleverly make their own tools to hunt book preview. animals and gather vegetables and water. Match the tools with the food by cutting and pasting.

Boomerang

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Fishing Net

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This is a Ready-Ed Publications' ď ą Aboriginal people have a strong connection with the Australian land because they have livedpreview. in Australia for thousands of years book 1.) Discuss how the pictures show that Aborigines were the first people to step foot in Australia. 2.) Label each artefact. 3.) Look at the man in the picture. What is his job?

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NAIDOC Week NAIDOC Week celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People’s culture and achievements.

 Colour thea boomerang in Aboriginal colours. Discuss why these This is Ready-Ed Publications' colours are special to Indigenous Australians. book preview.

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This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. Photographs Tell Stories (page 50) •

Tell the students that photographs are a great way of recording people’s daily lives in the past and present.

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Ask them to think of the last photograph that they remember being taken (e.g. a photograph of the family dog yesterday, a photograph of them at their friend’s house). Students can take turns telling the rest of the class about the last photograph that they remember being taken.

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Show the students a recent photograph. Ask them how they can tell that it was taken recently (in colour, in good condition, contemporary clothing, things look familiar).

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Show students an old photograph. Ask them how they can tell that the photograph was taken a long time ago (in black and white, colours have faded, in poor condition, edges tattered, things don’t look familiar, clothes look dated, objects in the photograph are recognisable but not in use today).

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Ask the students to bring in an old photograph which shows their parents, grandparents or other elder when they were young. They can paste it on to their activity sheets and fill in the information.

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As an extension activity, students can repeat the activity with a recent photograph.

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Tell them that historians believe that 60 million years ago dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

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Go to: http://trove.nla.gov.au/picture for a searchable database of historic pictures and photographs.

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Students should colour: the camel (as it was a means of transportation), the pyramids (as Ancient Egyptians buried important kings (Pharaohs) inside), the statue (because Ancient Egyptians believed that there were hundreds of gods and they appeared in animal form. Statues of animals were the Pharaohs' way of honouring the gods).

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Discuss the way that traditional Indigenous Australians either walked, or travelled by makeshift boats precolonisation. They did not travel by horse, camel, car, train or plane.

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Explain that traditional Indigenous Australians made their own shelters using the resources available to them from the land – such as stones, plants, sticks, etc.

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Discuss the methods used by traditional Indigenous Australians to source food – they used hunting tools that they made themselves to spear fish and kill large animals such as kangaroos and possums, etc.

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etc. This will help them to demonstrate ACHHS016.

Introduce vocabulary to the students which will help them talk about the past, such as: yesterday, years ago, once,

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Discuss the way that traditional Indigenous Australians used coolamons made from the bark off trees to collect water from streams.

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Explain that traditional Indigenous Australians sourced vegetables underground by digging in the ground using makeshift digging sticks.

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Discuss the method used by traditional Indigenous Australians to keep warm – they would make fires from available wood and by rubbing two sticks against each other.

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The Dreaming helps us to understand the unique relationship that Indigenous Australians have with the land as they believe that it is sacred and should be looked after.

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Before the students begin the activity sheet you might want to read some Dreaming stories by logging on to: www.dreamtime.auz.net/. Some of these stories might relate to their local area. As an additional activity the students might want to explain one of these Dreaming stories in picture form. The best way for them to do this might be in the form of a storyboard or a sequence of pictures.

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Tiddalick The Greedy Frog is an Aboriginal Dreamtime story which could be said to explain droughts and floods. It could also be said to highlight the importance of sharing water resources and emphasise that all animals need water.

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Read out the story to the students then ask them to complete the activity.

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Other Dreamtime stories to share with your students are: The Rainbow Serpent, How The Crow Became Black, Brolga The Dancer, How The Sun Was Made, Where The Frost Comes From and The Black Swans.

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Students may like to create their own stories about the origin of flora, fauna or natural phenomena.

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Before the children complete the activity sheet, explain that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples communicate the past through stories passed down from generation to generation. These stories are known as the Dreaming or Dreamtime.

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The stories are communicated through dance, music, storytelling and art.

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The Dreaming stories are all about the Earth’s creation. They tell tales of Ancestral Beings or Spirits moving around the Earth in human form creating animals, plants, rocks and other forms of the land that we know today. The spirits are then believed to have transformed into stars, rocks, trees, watering holes and other objects. These are regarded as sacred by Indigenous Australians.

My Story in Pictures (page 57)

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This activity gives students the opportunity to demonstrate some historical skills. It asks them to use vocabulary to talk about the past,

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This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. present and future and encourages them to think about sequencing (ACHHS015, ACHHS016).

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Students could paste photographs of themselves in the boxes instead of drawing. Students could cut out the words at the bottom of the page and paste them next to, or inside the boxes. Alternatively they can copy the words.

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Oral Histories (page 61) •

Each student will need to chat to his/ her chosen person and listen carefully to complete the activity sheet. Pictures and words can be used to record the interviewee's responses.

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You might like to invite parents, grandparents and elders into the classroom to talk about their childhoods (ACHHS020).

Artefacts Tell Stories (page 58) •

This activity gives students the opportunity to demonstrate some historical skills. It asks them to distinguish between what is old and what is new and compare objects from the past with those of the present (ACHHS017, ACHHS019).

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Discuss how they know that the old artefacts are not new, and talk about the features of each object and how they would have been used (ACHHS017, ACHHS018, ACHHS019).

Enlarging the activity sheet to A3 will be useful.

Different Views (Page 62) •

From this activity students should begin to recognise that stories of the past can differ depending on who is telling them, because people remember events in different ways.

My Special Artefact (page 59) •

Students might bring in an object that they got on their birthday, on a special trip or event. It will be important to them because it will remind them of that day.

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You could display the students’ artefacts and create a class museum.

Artefact Rubbings (page 60) •

Students will need to choose suitable objects for this activity such as: pieces of jewellery, medals, coins, etc. They can practise taking rubbings of things in school first, using bricks and signs, etc.

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Photographs Tell Stories

Photographs can tell us about the past as well as the present.

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This is a photograph of__________________________________ I know it is old because_ _________________________________

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Pictures can tell us stories about the past.

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ď ą What else does this picture tell you about the past? Circle Yes or No. In the time of the dinosaurs were there: People?

Yes / No

Buildings?

Yes / No

Trees?

Yes / No

Water?

Yes / No

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Pictures Tell Stories 2 Pictures can tell us stories about the past.

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This picture tells us how Ancient Egyptians lived in the past about 3,000 years ago.

ď ą What else does this picture tell you about the past? Circle Yes or No. In the time of Ancient Egyptians were there: People?

Yes / No

Buildings?

Yes / No

Trees?

Yes / No

Water?

Yes / No

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Yes / No

Animals?

Yes / No

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Pictures Tell Stories 3 Pictures can tell us stories about the past.

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 What does this picture tell us about what Aboriginal people did for shelter? _

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 What does this picture tell us about how Aboriginal people used to catch food? _

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Pictures Tell Stories 4 Pictures can tell us stories about the past.

 What does this picture tell us about how Aboriginal people This is a Ready-Ed Publications' sourced water? book preview. _ _________________________ _

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 What does this picture tell us about how Aboriginal people sourced vegetables? _

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 What does this picture tell us about how Aboriginal people stayed warm? _

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Activity Aboriginal Storytelling – Teachers’ Notes  Read this Aboriginal Dreamtime story to your students.

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A long time ago before people lived on Earth, there was a big frog called Tiddalick. Tiddalick lived in the hot Australian desert and he thought he was the boss of all the animals.

CHORUS: Tiddalick was nasty, Tiddalick was mean, Tiddalick was a green, mean drinking machine! One day Tiddalick was very thirsty. He went to the only pond of water in the desert garden and he started to drink all the water. He drank and drank and drank. He grew bigger and bigger and bigger. (BLOW UP A GREEN BALLOON PAINTED WITH EYES TO ADD TO THE DRAMA.) He didn’t leave one drop of water in the pond. (CHORUS.) The other animals in the desert came to the pond to drink. There was no water! They were so thirsty. Then they saw big, fat Tiddalick. "Tiddalick drank all the water!” said the kangaroo. "What can we do?” asked the kookaburra. “I know!” said the sleepy wombat. “Let’s make him laugh and laugh and laugh, then all the water will come out of his mouth.” (CHORUS.) The kangaroo hopped on one leg. Then she hopped on the other. She hopped up and down, up and down, up and down. But Tiddalick didn’t laugh. “My turn,” said the emu. The emu danced the can-can and wobbled his big bottom at the frog. Tiddalick didn’t laugh, Tiddalick didn’t even smile! The frill-necked lizard was very confident. “Watch me, you big bad frog,” she cried. The lizard turned around and around and around like a ballerina on the desert sand until she was very dizzy, but Tiddalick didn’t laugh. The eel that lived in the pond wriggled over to Tiddalick and started to tickle his leg with his tail…then he tickled him on the tummy…then under Tiddalick’s arms. Now the eel was around Tiddalick’s neck and suddenly Tiddalick started to laugh. He laughed and laughed and laughed. Tiddalick laughed so much that all the water came out of his mouth and there was water again for the animals of the desert.

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The kangaroo, the kookaburra, the emu, the eel, the wombat and the lizard laughed too and they danced under the desert sun. All the animals were happy again. It’s true… (CHORUS). But Tiddalick learned something very important. Did you?

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Aboriginal Storytelling

ď ą After the teacher has read Tiddalick The Greedy Frog, arrange the pictures so that they reflect the order of events in the Dreaming story. Cut out each picture and paste it onto a separate sheet. Colour the pictures.

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Tiddalick laughed so much that all the water came out of his mouth.

The kangaroo hopped on one leg.

The wombat had an idea.

The lizard turned around and around and around.

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The eel tickled Tiddalick with his tail.

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My Story In Pictures

Pictures can be used to show what people looked like in the past, what they look like now and what they might look like in the future.

ď ą Drawis three to show that once you were little, now you This apictures Ready-Ed Publications' are older, and one day you will be an adult. Draw yourself now. Draw yourself book as a baby. preview.

Draw what you might look like as an adult.

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Artefacts Tell Stories Artefacts are objects which are made by the human hand. There are old artefacts and new artefacts.

ď ą Colour the boxes around the old artefacts blue. Colour the This is a Ready-Ed Publications' boxes around the new artefacts red. Use lines to match the old artefacts with thebook new artefacts. preview.

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My Special Artefact

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Artefacts are important because they tell stories.

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 How many years old is the artefact (or when was it made)?  Tell your class why the artefact is special to you. ............................................................................ ............................................................................ ............................................................................

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Artefact Rubbings

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Artefacts are important because they tell stories.

ď ą Take four rubbings of separate artefacts around the home. Tell the class why these artefacts are in your home.

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Third Rubbing

Fourth Rubbing

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Oral Histories

If someone tells you a story that happened in the past it is an oral history.

ď ą Interview your mum, dad, grandparent or other relative about their past.

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' Interview book preview. Name: ______________________________________________ Relation:_ ___________________________________________ How did you travel around when you were young?

What was your favourite toy when you were young?

What chores did you have to do when you were young?

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Different Views

Stories can sound different depending on who is telling them.

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' Event:book preview.  As a class think of an event that everyone participated in.

 Draw your favourite part of the event below.

 Find someone who has drawn a different part of the event. Write their name and draw their favourite part below.

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Memory Game In pairs, cut out the cards and turn them face down. Take turns turning each card over to create a pair. You can create your own cards to add to these.

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Memory Game In pairs, cut out the cards and turn them face down. Take turns turning each card over to create a pair. You can create your own cards to add to these.

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