NAIDOC - STRENGTH: What does it mean to be strong?

Learning Areas

Civics and Citizenship | English | Health and Physical Education

In this unit

Students explore the idea of strength and how it can take different forms depending on people’s circumstances. They engage in hands-on activities to reflect on fairness, consider the impact of privilege, and think about how their own strength can support others

This unit includes:

Learning Areas

Year 7 Civics and Citizenship

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How Australia’s secular democracy and pluralist, multi-faith society draws upon diverse cultural origins, including Christian and Western heritage, distinct First Nations Australian histories and cultures, and migrant communities
AC9HC7K05
How values based on freedom, respect, fairness and equality of opportunity can support social cohesion and democracy within Australian society
AC9HC7S05
Create descriptions, explanations and arguments using civics and citizenship knowledge, concepts and terms that reference evidence

Year 5 & 6 Health and Physical Education

AC9HP6P01
Explain how identities can be influenced by people and places, and how we can create positive self-identities
AC9HP6P03
Investigate how the portrayal of societal roles and responsibilities can be influenced by gender stereotypes

Year 7 English

AC9E7LA01
Understand how language expresses and creates personal and social identities
AC9E7LY02
Use interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information including evaluations of the features of spoken texts
AC9E7LY05
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and summarise information and ideas
AC9E7LY06
Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, selecting subject matter, and using text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features as appropriate to convey information, ideas and opinions in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical

General Capabilities

Critical and Creative Thinking

develop questions to investigate complex issues and topics
questions developed assist in forming an understanding of why phenomena or issues arise

Cross Curriculum Priorities

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures

Country/Place

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First Nations communities of Australia maintain a deep connection to, and responsibility for, Country/Place and have holistic values and belief systems that are connected to the land, sea, sky and waterways.
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The occupation and colonisation of Australia by the British, under the now overturned doctrine of terra nullius, were experienced by First Nations Australians as an invasion that denied their occupation of, and connection to, Country/Place.
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The First Peoples of Australia are the Traditional Owners of Country/Place, protected in Australian Law by the Native Title Act 1993 which recognises pre-existing sovereignty, continuing systems of law and customs, and connection to Country/Place. This recognised legal right provides for economic sustainability and a voice into the development and management of Country/Place.

People

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The significant and ongoing contributions of First Nations Australians and their histories and cultures are acknowledged locally, nationally and globally.

Unit Content

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NAIDOC – STRENGTH: What Does It Mean to Be Strong? 1 Lesson