Curriculum Resources

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.

Three films, titled People, Country/Place and Culture, feature six exceptional young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who share stories about their communities, history and cultures in contemporary Australia.

Students will develop an understanding of the significance of Country to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and why connection to Country is important whether a person lives in the city or in a rural area.

This activity supports students to engage with the film Who We Are: Country/Place, wherein six young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples speak about their connection to Country.

Students view a short video featuring five young Aboriginal people, and one young Torres Strait Islander man, speaking about their connection to Country.

This activity supports students to engage with the film Who We Are: Country/Place, wherein six young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples speak about their connection to Country.

This activity supports students to engage with the film Who We Are: Culture, wherein six young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people describe what Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures means to them and to their families.

This activity supports students to engage with the film Who We Are: People, wherein six young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples speak about the concept of people, identity and their families.

This set of films, put together by the Immigration Museum in Melbourne , allows viewers to witness a racist incident through different people’s eyes. Use the activity to explore the films with your students. Experience another point of view. You might even see yourself.

Through a deductive guessing game, students are prompted to identify some of the important Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stakeholders in their local area, and to think about the roles that stakeholders and students alike can play in contributing to their school’s commitments to reconciliation.

Connection to Country follows the Aboriginal people of the Western Australian Pilbara’s battle to preserve Australia’s 50,000+-year-old cultural heritage from the ravages of a booming mining industry. Shaped around three short clips from the documentary, this activity aims to stimulate meaningful discussion for classroom learning.