Written in the Stars

Year 3 | 2 lessons x 60 minutes

Learning Areas

Digital Technologies | Science | Visual Arts

In this unit

Students explore the Gunaikurnai Creation story Mother Sky told by Alfie Hudson, learn about First Nations astronomy, identify constellations, and express their understanding through art, worksheets, and a Scratch coding activity.

This unit includes:

Learning Areas

  • AC9S2U01
    Recognise Earth is a planet in the solar system and identify patterns in the changing position of the sun, moon, planets and stars in the sky
  • AC9S2I03
    Make and record observations, including informal measurements, using digital tools as appropriate
  • AC9S2I04
    Sort and order data and information and represent patterns, including with provided tables and visual or physical models
  • AC9S2I05
    Compare observations with predictions and others’ observations, consider if investigations are fair and identify further questions with guidance
  • AC9AVA2E01
    Explore where, why and how people across cultures, communities and/or other contexts experience visual arts
  • AC9AVA2E02
    Explore examples of visual arts created by First Nations Australians
  • AC9AVA2D01
    Experiment and play with visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials
  • AC9AVA2C01
    Use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks
  • AC9TDI2P04
    use the basic features of common digital tools to create, locate and communicate content
  • AC9TDI2P05
    use the basic features of common digital tools to share content and collaborate demonstrating agreed behaviours, guided by trusted adults

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 First Nations 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.

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Gunaikurnai Community

Year 3

Digital Technologies

Science

Visual Arts

2 lessons x 60 minutes

Unit Includes

  • 1 Focus Area
  • 2 Lessons
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