Lesson teacher resources to match the Australian curriculum
A cheat sheet helping teachers plan lessons for the Australian curriculum.
The Australian national curriculum suggests learning areas for each of the subjects below.
The list of resource links below can help you prepare lessons in line with the curriculum and teach the Aboriginal perspective.
English
Curriculum learning areas
- contemporary Aboriginal literature
- story-telling traditions
- social, historical and cultural contexts associated with different uses of language
- diversity of Aboriginal languages and dialects
- Creole and Yumplatok
- writing systems and oral traditions
Suggested resources
Science
Curriculum learning areas
- knowledge through observation, senses, prediction and hypothesis, testing
- passing on methods through generations
- particular ways of knowing the world
- significant contributions to development in science
- ways of combining traditional and western scientific knowledge
Suggested resources
History
Curriculum learning areas
- taking an Aboriginal viewpoint on history
- life prior to colonisation
- invasion contact and impact
- key policies and political movements
- significant roles in today’s society
Suggested resources
Geography
Curriculum learning areas
- relationships with place
- interconnection with the environments (land, water and sky)
- different ways of thinking about and interacting with the environment
- use of land
- spiritually-based connection to Country
- knowledge and practices
- effects of invasion on people and environments
- inequalities in human welfare, sustainable development and human rights
- environmental management and regional economies
Suggested resources
- Meaning of land to Aboriginal people
- Aboriginal remains repatriation
- Native title
- Threats to Aboriginal land
- Aboriginal land care
- Mixed-race couples
- Admired overseas, shunned at home
- A guide to Australia’s Stolen Generations
- Aboriginal communities are breaking down
- Stolen wages
- Welcome to Country & Acknowledgement of Country
Economics & Business
Curriculum learning areas
- enterprising behaviours
- traditional, contemporary and emerging economic practices
- cultural, community and economic capacity
- interconnectedness between people, culture and country/place
- past and present economic activities
Suggested resources
Civics & Citizenship
Curriculum learning areas
- customary law
- contemporary experiences of Australia’s legal system
- identity
Suggested resources
The Arts
Curriculum learning areas
- art forms and their combinations
- relationships between people, culture and country/place
- identity
- oral histories and belief systems
- cultural expression in story, movement, song and visual traditions
Suggested resources
Technologies
Curriculum learning areas
- interconnectedness between technologies and identity, people, culture and country/place
- sustaining environments, histories, cultures and identities
- capacity for innovation
- traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies and practices
Suggested resources
Health & Physical education
Curriculum learning areas
- cultural heritage
- modes of communication and ways of living
- connections to place, people and ways of being
- importance of family and kinship
- health, safety and wellbeing
- traditional and contemporary Aboriginal games
Suggested resources
- Respect for Elders and culture
- Aboriginal statistic timeline
- Traditional Aboriginal health care
- Aboriginal mothers and children
- Aboriginal life expectancy
- Aboriginal smoking – A serious health problem
- Diabetes at crisis levels in Australia
- Coreeda: Aboriginal wrestling
- Traditional Aboriginal games & activities
- Are Aboriginal league and footy players ‘too talented’?
Languages
Curriculum learning areas
- learn an Aboriginal language
- languages and land/sea, country/place, the environment, fauna and flora
- interlinguistic and intercultural comparisons
Suggested resources
Work studies
Curriculum learning areas
- sense of identity
- how identity is strongly linked to belief systems and spiritual connection
- practices and strategies used within different communities to maintain and balance work and family life
- experiences of employment