Curriculum Resources

Teachers will support students to explore the meaning and purpose of this year’s theme, Be Brave. Make Change.

Students use an ABC Splash resource, ‘Noongar people speak about a sense of place,’ to develop an appreciation of Noongar peoples’ conceptualisations of ‘place,’ as well as place-people interrelationships.

Using a short Ninti One film as a stimulus, students develop an understanding of 'doing business Aboriginal way' so as to be able to constructively compare non-Indigenous and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander business attitudes, approaches and aspirations.

Blackfella Films, SBS Learn and Culture is Life have collaborated to educate young people about Australia’s longest and perhaps most defining war - the Frontier Wars.

With the support of local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, students work together to create a shared artwork to display somewhere in their school.

Through an incursion or excursion, students learn about the historical and cultural significance of the Country on which their school is situated, and about other culturally significant sites in their local area.

In this activity, students examine the cultural competence continuum and identify situations in their own lives or Australia’s history that reflect the various levels of competence. In doing so, they reflect on where they believe they are personally situated on a cultural competence continuum.

In this activity, students will deconstruct a policy document to identify what does or does not make it inclusive of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures, perspectives and priorities.

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.

Everyday Racism is an educational mobile phone app which challenges users to develop stronger understandings of racism by spending seven days walking in the shoes of another person.

Students engage with the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Face the Facts resources to distinguish ‘facts’ from ‘fictions’ around the shared and unique rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia, and to develop a stronger appreciation of the need to fully recognise and respect these rights.

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.

Students develop an understanding of the difference between equality and equity.

Students use Supply Nation’s Indigenous Business Direct search tool to locate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander owned businesses that could be used to procure goods and services relevant to the implementation of their school’s RAP initiatives or general business.

Students critically consider opportunities for confronting ‘invisible’, covert racism with overt, visible demonstrations of respect.

Unleash the natural forces of K'gari to destroy one of Australia's first fake news stories with an exciting classroom resource based on an interactive animation, K’gari.

This activity utilises a range of map representations to engage students in thinking about the languages of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across Australia and the distinct physical and socio-cultural geographies to which they belong.

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.