Curriculum Resources

Students examine schools’ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment strategies and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these strategies. Students think critically about the features of a strong employment strategy, and consider potential updates and inclusions.

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.

A reconciliation garden is an example of a whole-school project that can be used as an anchor point for relevant and significant curriculum activities, including learning around the importance of place and connection to Country as well as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge about bush foods and native plants.

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.

Students learn about how Elders and Traditional Owners keep and share knowledge about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures. Students then collaborate with Elders or Traditional Owners to come up with a plan for recording appropriate and selected stories.

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.

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Using the Australian Human Rights Commission’s suite of RightsEd: Human Rights in the School Classroom resources, students engage in thinking and discussion around the ways different sets of rights work together to tackle prejudice, encourage respect and ensure that 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.

The activities in this resource have been shaped around a series of short clips from Servant or Slave, a documentary using first-person accounts, archival footage and reconstructions to give a powerful and evocative insight into the domestic servitude forced upon Aboriginal women in 20th Century Australia.

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.

The Healing Foundation’s Stolen Generations Resource Kit for Teachers and Students has been created to educate young people about the Stolen Generations experience.

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 be able to present and perform at RAP launches.

Explore the significance of the Aboriginal flag to Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.

Focusing on three key themes: cultural identity, copyright and controversy, this activity explores the cultural, historical and political significance of the Aboriginal flag.