CREATION STORIES AND LEGENDS |
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| 1. Read an aboriginal legend/creation story and rewrite it in your own words. |
| 2. Make up an aboriginal legend of your own, to explain a modern day object or event. |
| 3. Find 8 Australian towns, cities, rivers, mountains, etc. that have aboriginal names, and explain their meanings. |
| 4. Read an aboriginal creation story and briefly explain it. (Include an illustration.) |
HOMES AND SHELTER |
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| 5. Explain why some aboriginal shelters are only temporary buildings. |
| 6. List a variety of materials that have been used to make shelters. |
| 7. Imagine that you are a Real Estate agent selling aboriginal dwellings and design a newspaper advertisement either to sell or rent an aboriginal home. |
| 8. Construct a model of a traditional aboriginal shelter. |
| 9. Illustrate: - 2 types of temporary shelter - 2 types of more permanent homes. |
FOOD AND HUNTING |
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| 10. Briefly explain how an aboriginal tribe went or goes about hunting and collecting their food. |
| 11. Describe a meal for an aboriginal feast. |
| 12. List six types of animals that were used for food and illustrate them. |
| 13. List six types of vegetables or fruit that were/are used for food and illustrate them. |
| 14. Imagine that you own a restaurant specialising in aboriginal food and design the menu. |
TOOLS AND WEAPONS (Technology) |
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| 15. Briefly list three types of tools, the materials they are made from, how they are made and what they are used for. |
| 16. List and illustrate three weapons used for hunting and three used for war. |
| 17. You own a shop that sells aboriginal tools and weapons. Draw a picture of your front window display, showing your products and their prices. |
| 18. Write step by step instructions on how an aboriginal hunter would catch his family's midday meal. |
ART, MUSIC AND LIFESTYLE |
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| 19. Explain what a 'corroboree' is. |
| 20. Produce a piece of aboriginal bark painting. |
| 21. Produce a piece of aboriginal music and tape it. |
| 22. Design a cut-and-paste collage in an aboriginal pattern. |
| 23. Make a mask that might be worn at a corroboree. |
| 24. Design an aboriginal motif or logo for a t-shirt, rug or plate. |
| 25. List and illustrate three aboriginal instruments used in their music. |
| 26. You are a famous aboriginal artist. Design your latest painting or drawing. |
| 27. Explain how stories and customs were passed onto the rest of the tribe by the "elders". (Explain who the "elders" were/are). |
GENERAL |
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| 28. Write ten interesting facts about an Aboriginal sportsperson. |
| 29. Write a one page comparison of the life of a modern day urban aboriginal to one that lived 10,000 years ago. |
| 30. Make up a comic strip with aboriginal characters. |
| 31. Perform an aboriginal dance. (You may do this with some friends - see me first). |
| 32. Make up a piece of aboriginal poetry with an aboriginal theme. |
| 33. Describe or illustrate how "the sea" has shaped the lives of the Torres Strait Islanders. |
