Curriculum Resources

Through engaging with a short film centred on the song, This Land is Mine, by Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly, students develop an appreciation of the importance of connecting to Country for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Imagine you are living in a future Australia that has achieved reconciliation. Send a postcard to your friends and family letting them know what it’s like and how it’s different from what it used to be.

This activity encourages students to play a proud, active role in promoting and publicising positive RAP progress.

This activity allows students to critically explore media representations of events or issues in Australia that have illuminated public sentiment around issues of racism, prejudice and discrimination.

Teachers use existing web-based resources to support their students to better understand racism and ways to take appropriate action against it.

This activity encourages students to be actively involved in the nomination and voting process behind the reconciliation awards and reminds students of the importance of celebrating students success in reconciliation.

In this activity, students put together an annual calendar of days of national significance.

Use the ‘head, heart, hand’ model to unpack the term reconciliation and think about how ideas and words can be turned into action.

Using the theme for National Reconciliation Week (NRW) as a prompt, write a poem about reconciliation.

In this activity, students form a committee to plan and complete a reconciliation project.

This is a reflective exercise that, through a creative letter-writing task, allows students to explore and express their understandings of the important role that Elders and Traditional Owners play in sharing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures.

Using the Australian Human Rights Commission’s suite of RightsEd: Human Rights in the School Classroom resources and activities, students engage in thinking and discussion around the ways different sets of rights work together to tackle prejudice, encourage respect and ensure all peoples' rights are met with equality and equity.

Students use a range of online directories to assist them with locating relevant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stakeholder groups/organisatisations that could make meaningful contributions to the achievement of RAP Actions.

Teachers invite Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to share aspects of their culture during news time or in research projects, and promote respectful listening by all class members when this kind of sharing takes place.

Students view media from the Sharing Stories Foundation Digital Storytelling Program to listen to, and learn from, stories about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures shared by Elders, Traditional Owners and children.

Given that reconciliation is a collective, collaborative journey, it important to foster opportunities for all students to be engaged with the planning and implementation of reconciliation initiatives. This activity provides some suggested ideas for student engagement.

Students are provided with opportunities to present or perform at their RAP launch to promote pride within their school and community.

In this activity, students reimagine the land on which the school stands and craft a creative response through poetry. This activity was created by Matthew Nogrady, English teacher at Telopea Park School in Canberra, ACT.

By exploring some of the Our Mob Teach Profiles published by MATSITI, students think about what they may be able to learn from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and appreciate the importance of increasing the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in education environments.

Students reflect on what it means to feel and be welcomed by others generally and then engage with the particular significance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Welcome to Country conventions.