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ABORIGINAL DREAMING STORIES By Jackie Miers and Loraine Turner
Magill and Norton Summit Primary Schools
Local Educator Professional Development Network.Work samples by the Norton Summit Primary School's Year 2/3 class.
UNIT OUTLINE LEARNING ACTIVITIES
LEARNING AREAS STRANDS SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT ARTS ENGLISH
KEY IDEAS : SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT
KEY IDEAS : ARTS
- Students discuss and examine the cultural heritage of Aboriginal people in Australian society and the way that their culture is passed on, maintained and developed.
- Students explore and adapt Dreaming stories and present them as dramatic performances and art works, showing an understanding of Aboriginal culture.
KEY IDEAS : ENGLISH
- Students explore the ways in which Aboriginal environments, beliefs and practices generate artworks.
- Students understand and respond to the ideas and viewpoints presented in Aboriginal Dreaming stories and extract specific information when listening to them.
- Students compose a range of written texts, which contain some interrelated ideas about Aboriginal Dreaming stories. They understand that Aboriginal Dreaming stories are associated with particular purposes and audiences and adjust their writing accordingly.
- Students receive, share and respond to a range of Dreaming stories and listen attentively to ideas and information and draw conclusions.
LEADING TO OUTCOMES : ARTS
- 2.7 - The student understands how practices, traditions and stories of Aboriginal people are passed on maintained and developed by families, groups and communities .
- 2.3 - The student presents and performs artworks in Drama and Visual Arts using Aboriginal Dreaming stories as inspiration.
LEADING TO OUTCOMES : ENGLISH
- 2.6 - The student considers different styles and forms of Aboriginal art works and identifies the purposes for which these artworks were made.
- 2.1 - The student listens to a range of Aboriginal story texts to identify specific information and responds to the views and ideas presented in the stories.
- 2.4 - The student composes a range of texts that include interrelated ideas on features of Dreaming stories and information about Rules for Living, Environment and Spiritual World.
- 2.9 - The student uses strategies for listening attentively to ideas, information and viewpoint in a range of Dreaming stories.
- K.C. 1 - Collecting, analysing and organising information.
- K.C. 2 - Communicating ideas.
- K.C. 3 - Planning and organising activities.
- K.C. 4 - Working with others in teams.
ESSENTIAL LEARNINGS
Students develop understanding of patterns and connections within systems (Students understand the difference and similarities between written and oral traditions.)
Students develop understanding of self, groups and others. (Students gain this through literature and art and gain an appreciation and of Aboriginal culture and its group identity.)
Students develop understanding of cultural and global connections.
Students develop understanding of what is needed for sustainable social and physical environment. (Aboriginal connection with land and sustainable use of the natural environment.)
Students develop the ability to act co-operatively.
Students develop the ability to use a wide range of thinking modes.
Students develop the ability to draw on thinking from a range of times and cultures. (Aboriginal attitude to the land.)
Students develop an understanding of the complexity and power of language and its pivotal role in communication. (The power of Aboriginal oral traditions over 1000s of years.)
Students develop an understanding how communication works in many forms. (Various forms of painting, message sticks, dance, stories)
LEARNING ACTIVITIES INTRODUCTORY LESSON :
- Teacher records students’ prior knowledge on board or in Inspiration.
- Teacher discusses and explains purposes of Dreaming Stories.
THINKING HAT ACTIVITIES :
Students may select from the following activities.
WHITE HAT ACTIVITIES
Read the Dreaming Story Thukeri.
Discuss what the story is telling the listener.
Introduce the Rules for Living, Environment and Spiritual World.
Students work in groups and use a data retrieval grid to record their ideas and grasp of the information.
Read and show videos of a variety of Dreaming stories to students.
Students select one of the stories that has been read to them or that they have seen on video and construct a story sequence using paper or KidPix.
Click on to the thumbnails to see a larger version of the pictures. GREEN HAT ACTIVITIES
Students retell the Aboriginal Dreaming story Thukeri or one of their own choice that they have read or seen on video.
Retelling Available in both Word and PDF formats
Groups of students make up a play based on a Dreaming story of their choice. They write a script and perform it for an audience.
Play script Available in both Word and PDF formats
Students examine different examples of Aboriginal visual artworks.
Read the story The narool (grass), the gargarra (new moon) and the meedin (possum) from Jirrbal.
They use the art form of dot painting to represent an idea from this story.
Click on to the thumbnails to see a larger version of the pictures. BLUE HAT ACTIVITIES
Read The echidna and the shade tree.
Students re-write the ending of the story showing what might have happened if the animals had behaved differently.
Revise the features of Dreaming stories.
Students plan and write their own stories.RED HAT ACTIVITIES
Read Dunbi the owl.
Students write down as many words as they can think of to describe how Dunbi would have felt when the children were mean to him.
Discuss with students how they feel about the illustrations in the Dreaming stories that they have been introduced to, all of which have been illustrated in a naive, unsophisticated style.
Students select an event in their favourite story to illustrate, using a style similar to that of the illustrator.
Click on to the thumbnails to see a larger version of the pictures
BLACK HAT ACTIVITIES
Read Fishing story about us from the book Jirrbal.
Students discuss and record all the things that the children, Yarra and Garjin, did wrong in the story, using paper, KidPix or Inspiration.
Click on to the thumbnail to see a larger version of the picture.
Read The water story from the book Jirrbal.
Students discuss and record all the problems that a lack of water would have caused for the animals.YELLOW HAT ACTIVITIES
Read the Dreaming story How the birds got their colour.
Students discuss and demonstrate, using paint, crayons, textas or KidPix, the good things that happened to the birds because they were kind.
Click on to the thumbnail to see a larger version of the picture.
Read The buni (fire) story from the book Jirrbal.
Students brainstorm and record all the good things that a fire would have provided for the animals, using paper, Inspiration or KidPix.
Student complete a self-evaluation based on the Six Thinking Hats.
Barlow, Maisie (2001) Jirrbal, rainforest dreamtime stories.
Green, Mona (1984) The echidna and the shade tree, Ashton Scholastic, Sydney.
Lofts, Pamela [1983] Dunbi the owl, Ashton Scholastic, Sydney.
Lofts, Pamela [1983] How the birds got their colours, Ashton Scholastic, Sydney
Thukeri: a Ngarrindjeri Dreaming story (1988) Education Department of South Australia, Adelaide.
The Goori goori bird, Thukeri, How the mopoke came to be, and The dolphin, in The Dreaming [video] Education Department of South Australia, Adelaide.
http://indigenousaustralia.frogandtoad.com.au/story.htmlDreamtime stories - online research module
http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/bb_site_intro/stage3_Modules/dreamtime/dreamtime_stories.htmlDust Echoes - This website contains "a series of twelve beautifully animated dreamtime stories from Central Arnhem Land, telling stories of love, loyalty, duty to country and aboriginal custom and law." (From the Dust Echoes web page)
There are 12 animated stories altogether, each accompanied with information about the story, activities and study guides.
http://www.abc.net.au/dustechoes/dustEchoesFlash.htm
Jirrabal, Dreamtime stories
http://publib.slq.qld.gov.au/cbw/2002/jirrabal.htmIndigenous Australia - Numerous Stories of the Dreaming
http://www.dreamtime.net.au/dreaming/storylist.htmAboriginal Dreaming Stories - Three stories - The emu, The wombat and the Kangaroo, and The cockatoo
http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00747/dreaming/dreaming.htmlAdnyamathanha Dreaming Story - The Eagle and the Crow. (Click on the footprints to go to the next page)
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0115620/beliefsstoryeagle1.htmlAdnyamathanha Dreaming Story - We Came From The Land. (Click on the footprints to go to the next page)
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0115620/beliefsstorywecame1.htmlAdnyamathanha Dreaming Story - How The Moon Got In The Sky. (Click on the footprints to go to the next page)
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0115620/beliefsstorymoon1.htmlAdnyamathanha Dreaming Story - Mother's helper. (Click on the footprints to go to the next page)
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0115620/beliefsstorymother1.htmlAdnyamathanha Dreaming Story - The seven sisters. (Click on the footprints to go to the next page)
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0115620/beliefsstoryseven1.htmlAdnyamathanha Dreaming Story - The Euro and the Kangaroo (Click on the footprints to go to the next page)
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0115620/beliefsstoryeuro1.htmlSix different stories about bunyips. Select the Aboriginal Stories options in the menu.
http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/bunyips/flash-site/index-flash.htmlOnline Trail. This online trail that mirrors an exhibition about the Ngarrindjeri, the Aboriginal people of the Lower Murray River, Lakes and Coorong, at the South Australian Museum. The story of the Ngurunderi Dreaming is used in the exhibition to introduce different aspects of Ngarrindjeri culture.
http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/ngurunderi/ngframe.htmDreaming stories - From the students of Rokeby Primary School in Tasmania
http://www.rokebyprimary.tased.edu.au/NAIDOC/stor.htmlDreamtime stories. Click on Water, Sky, Land, People, or Instruments to read these stories.
http://www.dreamtime.auz.net/default.asp?PageID=41&n=WaterLESSON IDEAS
Dust Echoes - Study Guides for the 12 animated stories are available from the Dust Echoes website
http://www.abc.net.au/dustechoes/dustEchoesFlash.htm
Lesson plan - Aboriginal Dreaming
http://www.innovated.gov.au/Innovated/html/i012.asp?LPID=335Kondili the whale - A dreaming story set near Victor Harbor, South Australia. Includes teacher support materials.
http://www.aboriginaleducation.sa.edu.au/files/links/Kondili_the_whale__teachin.pdfAboriginal dreaming
http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/primary/creativearts/Astronomy and Australian indigenous people by Adele Pring
http://www.assa.org.au/nacaa/aaaip.pdf
GAMES
Hive alive. Can you get the lost sugar bag fly back to its hive alive
http://abc.net.au/message/dustechoes/games/hivealive/HiveAlive.htmWagalak garden. Create your own garden.
http://abc.net.au/message/dustechoes/games/wagalak/wagalak.htmFrog game. Get the frog to do amazing airborne tricks and land in the waterhole below
http://abc.net.au/message/dustechoes/games/frog/frog.htm
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