Focus Questions

Focus Question 1

Identify the rainfall, temperature and population of your region.

Land Issues - Place

Focus Question 2

Discover the connection a variety of people have with their region.

Go on a walk through different regions of Australia.

Experiences - Our Connection
Understanding - Reflective Walks

Focus Question 3

The Story of Migration throughout Australia's history.

Experiences - Cultural Influences - Celebration

Focus Question 4

Read the stories of people who have made a new life in Australia.

Experiences - Cultural Influences - Stories

Focus Question 5

View a Timeline of Australian History and the impact of European Settlement on the Indigenous People.

Land Issues - Time

Focus Question 6

Log your family history and view other peoples within our diverse community.

Experiences - Cultural Influences - Stories

Focus Question 7

Be welcomed to an Indigenous Community - Kutjungka in Western Australia and Gunditjmara in Victoria.

Find the name of your local Indigenous nation.

Kutjungka - Welcome
Gunditjmara - Welcome
Understanding - Achieving Reconciliation - Map of Australia

Focus Question 8

View paintings that depict Kutjungka dreaming stories.

View paintings and their meaning by prominent Gunditjmara artists.

See Kutjungka Men's Paintings and Women's Paintings and how their art is developed.

Read stories from the Gunditjmara dreaming.

Listen to Indigenous songwriters sing of their connection with the Gunditjmara nation.

Kutjungka - About Kutjungka - Dreaming (Various Stories)
Gunditjmara - About Gunditjmara - Stories - Universe
Kutjungka - Men's Paintings
Kutjungka - Women's Paintings
Kutjungka - Men's Painting - Development of Art
Gunditjmara - About Gunditjmara - Dreaming
Gunditjmara - Song

Focus Question 9

Develop an understanding of the significance that Framlingham Forest, Lake Condah and the River Systems have for Gunditjmara people.

Hear and view a Kutjungka sacred ritual take place.

Gunditjmara - About Gunditjmara - Framlingham Forest
        - Lake Condah - River Systems
Kutjungka - About Kutjungka - Healing - Ritual

Focus Question 10

Discover a historical Indigenous meeting place and the Tarerer Festival that now takes place there.

Play our Discovery Game and try to find the 5 symbols.

Gunditjmara - About Gunditjmara - Tarerer
Discovery

Focus Question 11

Respect and Recognition and its significance to the Indigenous Community.

Evaluate what you've learnt through our questionnaire.

Understanding - Achieving Reconciliation - Respect - Recognition
Understanding - Achieving Reconciliation - Action

Teachers' Notes

CD Tour

Schools Showcase

Invitation

State Resources