Dust Echoes Aboriginal
Each is about five minutes long, and is accompanied by a study guide with suggested classroom activities and detailed questions.
Students can explore information and themes in each story through an online quiz, or using worksheets that are supplied for classroom use.
Curriculum applicability
Dust Echoes suits the Society and Environment (or equivalent) curriculum area for upper primary and lower secondary levels in all states and territories, but can also be integrated with English, Art,
Drama and Music activities.
The stories can help students achieve these learning outcomes:
• Develop knowledge about a number of Aboriginal Dreamtime stories from the Arnhem Land area • Interpret the symbolism of these stories • Analyse the meanings and messages in the stories
• Understand more about the nature of traditional Aboriginal life that is reflected in the stories
• Appreciate aspects of the
Aboriginal Dreamtime and culture • Reflect on the relevance of the meanings and messages of these stories to their own lives today
• Analyse how a variety of animation film techniques are used to create and realize the stories • Develop a variety of educational skills through the classroom activities associated with the stories. Before viewing the stories
Introducing the concept of stories
Dust Echoes is about stories. Teachers can introduce students to the concept of stories through reference to their own lives in this way:
1 Have students brainstorm to list stories they know. As they are given, the teacher can list them in categories: fairy tales, Bible or Koran stories, stories from television or books or films, personal family stories, other types. The main point to establish is: all students know some stories; they are part of their lives. 2 Who tells stories? Ask students to identify different ways they receive these stories. They may be by the written word, the spoken or sung word, by pictures.
Ask students to
Students can explore information and themes in each story through an online quiz, or using worksheets that are supplied for classroom use.
Curriculum applicability
Dust Echoes suits the Society and Environment (or equivalent) curriculum area for upper primary and lower secondary levels in all states and territories, but can also be integrated with English, Art,
Drama and Music activities.
The stories can help students achieve these learning outcomes:
• Develop knowledge about a number of Aboriginal Dreamtime stories from the Arnhem Land area • Interpret the symbolism of these stories • Analyse the meanings and messages in the stories
• Understand more about the nature of traditional Aboriginal life that is reflected in the stories
• Appreciate aspects of the
Aboriginal Dreamtime and culture • Reflect on the relevance of the meanings and messages of these stories to their own lives today
• Analyse how a variety of animation film techniques are used to create and realize the stories • Develop a variety of educational skills through the classroom activities associated with the stories. Before viewing the stories
Introducing the concept of stories
Dust Echoes is about stories. Teachers can introduce students to the concept of stories through reference to their own lives in this way:
1 Have students brainstorm to list stories they know. As they are given, the teacher can list them in categories: fairy tales, Bible or Koran stories, stories from television or books or films, personal family stories, other types. The main point to establish is: all students know some stories; they are part of their lives. 2 Who tells stories? Ask students to identify different ways they receive these stories. They may be by the written word, the spoken or sung word, by pictures.
Ask students to