Curriculum Resources

Students explore a relevant range of ABC Open's DreamBox photographs as a stimulus for appreciating the aspirations and opportunities of people, including those of their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander classmates.

This activity supports students to engage with series 1 and 2 of SBS’s Logie Award-winning documentary resource, First Contact.

Student use examples from the ABC Open Me and Mine short film series to explore relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, and to think about how relationships and experiences shared in the films are also relevant in the classroom.

Students develop a respect for, and understanding of, First Nations protocols, including Acknowledgement of Country and Welcome to Country.

The theme for NRW 2018 is Don’t Keep History A Mystery. Use the NRW 2018 poster as a stimulus for inspiring further research, reflection and discussion about reconciliation.

Teachers will support students to explore the meaning and purpose of this year’s National Reconciliation Week theme, Be a Voice for Generations.

In this activity, students collate a portfolio of news articles, research and broader media from a range of different sources about a local or national issue that relates to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and reconciliation.

This activity encourages students to engage with My Grandmother’s Lingo, an innovative and interactive animation resource that provides users with a unique and powerful opportunity to better appreciate the context, complexity and continued significance of Australia’s First Languages.

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.

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.

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.

In this activity students engage with the Who We Are: Brave New Clan short film that explores the story and experiences of Harry Sabatino, a nineteen-year-old man who grew up on Sabai Island in the Torres Strait and is now studying to be an Engineer in Brisbane.

In this activity students engage with the Who We Are: Brave New Clan short film that explores the story and experiences of Harry Sabatino, a nineteen-year-old man who grew up on Sabai Island in the Torres Strait and is now studying to be an Engineer in Brisbane.

In this activity students engage with The Who We Are: Brave New Clan short film that explores the story and experiences of James Saunders, twenty-eight-year-old business owner who grew up in south-east Queensland and now lives in Sydney.

In this activity students engage with The Who We Are: Brave New Clan short film that explores the story and experiences of James Saunders, twenty-eight-year-old business owner who grew up in south-east Queensland and now lives in Sydney.

In this activity students engage with the Who We Are: Brave New Clan short film that explores the story and experiences of Josh Toomey, a twenty-eight-year-old Wiradjuri man from Dubbo who now lives on the Central Coast and works as an electrical linesman with Ausgrid.

In this activity students engage with the Who We Are: Brave New Clan short film that explores the story and experiences of Kaylah Truth, a twenty-six-year-old Meerooni woman of the Gurang nation, who grew up in Logan, south of Brisbane, and has become a successful rapper.