Keeping the connection – water country spirit Celebrating Freshwater Stages Early One – Five
Published in 2003, Keeping the connection was our second collection of teaching strategies for teachers based around an Indigenous perspective of a major celebration.
2003 was the United Nations International Year of Freshwater. Keeping the connection provides teacher background information, teaching strategies and worksheets for Early Stage 1 through to Stage 5.
The activities were developed for the 2003 year but continue to be relevant in classrooms today.
Keeping the connection features –
- detailed background information about working with Indigenous communities and planning a celebration
- detailed background information for teachers to assist them to lead a discussion of an Indigenous perspective of freshwater
- detailed teaching strategies that provide teachers with step-by-step direction to successfully lead students to understanding of freshwater from an Indigenous perspective
- 13 original and professionally Indigenous designed worksheets
ISBN: 0-9581073-1-9 pp52
Contents [detail]
- IMPORTANT INFORMATION – Scope and Sequence, Discussion Background, Localising your kit, Being sensitive to Indigenous students, Recognising the diversity of community, Planning events properly with regard to protocol, Engaging a cultural educator, Language, Country, Creating a water festival.
- TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES – Early stage one – Identifying differences, Stage one – Seeing the world around us, Stage two – Where’d the water go?, Stage three – Same country, different connections, Stage four – The living land, Stage five – Making decisions.
- RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
- WORKSHEETS – The water symbol, Group badges, Australia’s eco-systems, What’s going on in my country? Life Pattern Chat, What is the Water Cycle? Visual arts research activity, Preparing for your exhibition, Living land, Case study project.
2022 Update
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