First Nations Australian Language
This worksheet has been designed to help students make connections to First Nations culture and history by exploring Indigenous words that are used in our everyday language as well as their meaning.
Students can look up the meaning of each word using a dictionary or iPad or you may go through each word and discuss possible meanings as a class.
Learning goals
- We are learning to understand the way the world is represented in geographic divisions and the location of Australia in relation to these divisions.
- We are learning to understand the ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples maintain special connections to particular Country/Place.
- We are learning to understand that places are parts of Earth’s surface that have been named by people, and how places can be described as personal, local, regional and national.
- We are learning to understand connections of people in Australia to people in other places in Australia and across the world.
- We are learning to understand why people choose to visit places, e.g. accessibility, transport, technology and distance, and the reason for visiting, e.g. shopping, recreation, sport, family.
Curriculum alignment
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
Some students may benefit from working in a small, guided, teacher group or with mixed ability pairs.
Extensions
Some students may be tasked with finding additional First Nations words that have now formed part of our everyday language. You may even ask them to find some words and their meaning from the Indigenous Language group local to your school using the Gambay website to research: http://gambay.com.au/map