Our Ancestors

Students engage with the multi-touch book Birrarung and explore First Nations portraits to learn about Wurundjeri Ancestors and their role in shaping identity. They create a personal ancestry map or visual representation, reflecting on how their own Ancestors, wherever they are from, influence who they are today.

Cross Curriculum Priorities

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures

  • A_TSICP1 
    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.

  • A_TSIC1 
    First Nations Australian societies are diverse and have distinct cultural expressions such as language, customs and beliefs. As First Nations Peoples of Australia, they have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural expressions, while also maintaining the right to control, protect and develop culture as Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property.

  • A_TSIC2 
    First Nations Australians’ ways of life reflect unique ways of being, knowing, thinking and doing.

  • A_TSIC3 
    The First Peoples of Australia (Aboriginal Peoples) belong to the world’s oldest continuous cultures. First Nations Australians demonstrate resilience in the maintenance, practice and revitalisation of culture despite the many historic and enduring impacts of colonisation, and continue to celebrate and share the past, present and future manifestations of their cultures.

  • A_TSIP3 
    The significant and ongoing contributions of First Nations Australians and their histories and cultures are acknowledged locally, nationally and globally.

  • A_TSIP1 
    Australia has 2 distinct First Nations Peoples; each encompasses a diversity of nations across Australia. Aboriginal Peoples are the first peoples of Australia and have occupied the Australian continent for more than 60,000 years. Torres Strait Islander Peoples are the First Nations Peoples of the Torres Strait and have occupied the region for over 4,000 years.

Curriculum Links

  • AC9HS3K01
    Causes and effects of changes to the local community, and how people who may be from diverse backgrounds have contributed to these changes
  • AC9HS3K02
    Significant events, symbols and emblems that are important to Australia’s identity and diversity, and how they are celebrated, commemorated or recognised in Australia, including Australia Day, Anzac Day, NAIDOC Week, National Sorry Day, Easter, Christmas, and other religious and cultural festivals
  • AC9HS3K03
    The representation of contemporary Australia as states and territories, and as the Countries/Places of First Nations Australians prior to colonisation, and the locations of Australia’s neighbouring regions and countries
  • AC9HS3K04
    The ways First Nations Australians in different parts of Australia are interconnected with Country/Place
  • AC9HS3K07
    Why people participate within communities and how students can actively participate and contribute to communities
  • AC9HS3S01
    Develop questions to guide investigations about people, events, places and issues
  • AC9HS3S02
    Locate, collect and record information and data from a range of sources, including annotated timelines and maps
  • AC9E3LA09
    Identify how images extend the meaning of a text

  • AC9E3LY02
    Use interaction skills to contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas

  • AC9E3LY06
    Plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive written and multimodal texts, using visual features, appropriate form and layout, with ideas grouped in simple paragraphs, mostly correct tense, topic-specific vocabulary and correct spelling of most high-frequency and phonetically regular words

  • AC9E3LY07
    Plan, create, rehearse and deliver short oral and/or multimodal presentations to inform, express opinions or tell stories, using a clear structure, details to elaborate ideas, topic-specific and precise vocabulary, visual features, and appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume

  • AC9E3LY12
    Recognise and know how to write most high frequency words including some homophones

  • AC9AMA4C01
    Use media languages, media technologies and production processes to construct representations that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning
  • AC9AMA4D01
    Develop media production skills by exploring ways of shaping ideas using media technologies, images, sounds, text and/or interactive elements
  • AC9AMA4P01
    Share media arts works in informal settings considering responsible media practice
  • AC9AMA4D01
    Develop media production skills by exploring ways of shaping ideas using media technologies, images, sounds, text and/or interactive element
  • AC9AMA4C01
    Use media languages, media technologies and production processes to construct representations that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning
  • AC9AMA4P01
    Share media arts works in informal settings considering responsible media practice
  • AC9AVA4E02
    Explore how First Nations Australians use visual arts to communicate their connection to and responsibility for Country/Place
  • AC9AVA4C01
    Use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning
  • AC9AVA4E01
    Explore where, why and how visual arts are created and/or presented across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts
  • AC9AVA4E02
    Explore how First Nations Australians use visual arts to communicate their connection to and responsibility for Country/Place
  • AC9AVA4P01
    Share and/or display artworks and/or visual arts practice in informal settings
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Unit Includes

  • 1 Focus Area
  • 4 Lessons

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the content on this site may contain images and references to deceased persons.

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