Fire, Mathematics, Year 9
Mathematics of bushfire
Mathematical concepts and tools can be used to enhance our understanding of bushfire behaviour and impacts. Fire is crucial in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.
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Fire, Technologies, Year 5, Year 6
Co-design in fire management
Fire management plans that use both both traditional Aboriginal fire knowledge and western science are found to result in better outcomes for communities.
Fire, English, Year 9
Representations in film and text
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander fire management practices are represented in a range of formats including text, film and video, digital technology, photographs, images and maps. Each approach uses different techniques to create context and to influence the audience.
Water, Humanities and Social Sciences, Year 4
Living off our waters
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have developed resource utilisation and management regimes for marine, riparian and estuarine habitats and incorporated cultural, ritual and social rules and practices governing use and harvesting to ensure the sustainability of these resources as a major component of their traditional ecological knowledge systems.
Water, Science, Year 4
Billabongs
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples understand the value of billabongs and utilise the life cycles of certain species of plants and animals that are part of billabong ecosystems. This knowledge and value has allowed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to survive in some of the harshest places on the continent.
Water, Mathematics, Year 4
Navigating our way through country
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge of the features of the world and navigation methods involved geographical, astronomical and environmental knowledge that was transmitted by various means, including narratives, songs, star maps, and visual designs.
Fire, Humanities and Social Sciences, Year 9
Colonising the landscape
Prior to colonisation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples used ‘fire-stick farming’ to manage the landscape for sustainable food production, but the events of colonisation resulted in profound changes in the landscape.
Fire, Science, Year 9
Interdependence in the environment
Within an ecosystem there are interdependent relationships between the species of that environment which are recognised and understood in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ecological knowledge and practices.
Fire, Technologies, Year 9, Year 10
Contemporary fire management
Combining traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander fire management techniques with new technologies can improve environmental outcomes and reduce bushfire risk.
Astronomy, English, Year 5
Law, song, and a Meriam Moon Dance
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples maintain complex oral traditions, which include song and dance, that serve as oral texts, containing important information about traditional Laws.
Astronomy, The Arts, Year 5, Year 6
Sharing astronomical narratives from country
Aboriginal narratives are shared through symbols and with materials made from and of country, and provide a connection to country and a portal to a metaphysical or spiritual dimension.
Water, Health and Physical Education, Year 9, Year 10
Working in the community
For many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, jobs looking after country provide an important connection to the environment, culture and community.
Astronomy, English, Year 8
Indigenous astronomy and song series
For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to navigate across vast areas of land and sea, sophisticated knowledge systems were necessary. Their terrestrial and astronomical knowledge was remembered in cultural expressions, such song series (or song lines) which provided memory maps used to travel long distances across the landscape or seas. These songs and their rhythm (which are often composed of different languages) aided travellers crossing the land, telling them where to find food, water, and shelter by using landscape and skyscape features.
Water, English, Year 4
Interpretations of Dreaming stories in text
The Rainbow Serpent is an Aboriginal ancestral cultural being that feature in many Aboriginal peoples’ cultural stories and songs. It has also been interpreted and represented in different ways in a number of contemporary texts.
Water, Technologies, Year 9, Year 10
Indigenous voices in water
Aboriginal Waterways Assessment is a tool that documents the way Aboriginal people value and use water, to assist in sharing knowledge, to communicate their water values, and help advocate for their needs in water management.
Astronomy, Humanities and Social Sciences, Year 8
Indigenous astronomy, geography, and star maps
Star maps are song series encoded to memory using the stars. In these maps, stars correlate with landscape features and places to find food and water, while their orientations represent the directions of the pathways for travelling. Star maps are so crucial to navigation that even some modern highway networks and towns in parts of Australia are based on Aboriginal star maps.
Fire, Science, Year 6
Understanding plants and animals
The controlled application of fire by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people requires a deep knowledge of the environment, including vegetation communities, precipitation patterns, seasonal variability, weather and wind.
Fire, Humanities and Social Sciences, Year 6
Fire and land management: past and present
Aboriginal peoples have developed a continent-wide land management system using fire, a practice which has evolved over millennia.
Astronomy, The Arts, Year 7, Year 8
Astronomical knowledge in art
In the Visual Arts Indigenous narratives are shared through symbols and with materials made from and of country.
Water, Technologies, Year 3, Year 4
Weaving design into local materials
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have used grasses and reeds from wetlands for thousands of years. They used these materials for weaving to make many different kinds of useful everyday objects.
Fire, The Arts, Year 5, Year 6
Comparing traditional and contemporary styles of Indigenous dance
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance groups use both traditional and contemporary influences in their works in order to express knowledge and meaning.
Water, Science, Year 10
Groundwater
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been living with water forms, such as groundwater, and using and managing the resources of these water bodies by observing laws and cultural protocols, some of which continue to be expressed in stories and songs transmitted over many generations as a means to maintain them.
Astronomy, Science, Year 8
Stellar scintillation
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people developed extensive knowledge about the world around them through observation, experimentation, experience, and deduction.
Astronomy, Science, Year 5
Indigenous Astronomy and the Solar System
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people maintain detailed knowledge systems about objects in the Solar System, including the Sun, Moon, planets, comets, and meteors.
Water, English, Year 10
Language in law
The presence of the Woi-wurrung language in the Victorian parliament’s Yarra River Protection (Wilip-gin Birrarung murron) Act 2017 is an example of how the use of language can have inclusive social effects.
Fire, English, Year 6
Communicating traditional Indigenous Knowledge
Methods for documenting and communicating traditional knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples include single disciple and interdisciplinary research projects designed to capture specific knowledge traditions expressed in Indigenous languages, recording oral histories and stories, and making images, videos, diagrams and maps to communicate Indigenous knowledge.
Water, English, Year 5
Understanding and respecting creation stories
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples maintain complex oral traditions, which include song and dance, that serve as oral texts, containing important information about traditional Laws.
Fire, Health and Physical Education, Year 9, Year 10
Physical fitness in communities
Physical activity and movement have been integral to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of life for thousands of years, but this has been severely impacted on by colonisation through changes to lifestyle, land ownership, work options, travel, and diet.
Astronomy, Technologies, Year 7, Year 8
Digital technology and managing Indigenous astronomical knowledge
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge is passed to successive generations through oral tradition, including story, song, and dance.
Fire, Mathematics, Year 6
Mathematics in nature: understanding bushfire
Exploring how mathematics can be used to understand and describe how bushfires spread across a landscape, and how different environmental factors such as wind and terrain influence bushfire behaviour.
Water, Mathematics, Year 10
Geometry of water sources and landforms
A detailed knowledge of the availability of seasonal and permanent freshwater bodies is critical to the survival and culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Astronomy, Technologies, Year 5, Year 6
Indigenous astronomy, communication, and digital technology
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditions contain a wealth of knowledge about the Sun, Moon, and stars. This knowledge informs cultural concepts about origins (creation stories), social practices and protocols (law), and ideas about life and death (philosophy).
Astronomy, Mathematics, Year 5
Stellar navigation and mathematics
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people also developed techniques to navigate using the stars in a variety of ways, using mathematical principles.
Water, Humanities and Social Sciences, Year 10
Budj Bim: an Aboriginal cultural heritage landscape
The management of the Budj Bim landscape in southwest Victoria people by its traditional owners, the Gunditjmara people, in collaboration with the Victorian Government and other parties, demonstrates several features of modern protection systems of landscapes, environments and cultural heritage.
Astronomy, Humanities and Social Sciences, Year 5
Indigenous astronomy and seasonal calendars
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have an understanding of how the stars and constellations are connected to environmental phenomena on Earth. They developed complex seasonal calendars that incorporate detailed knowledge of the positions of stars and constellations with corresponding terrestrial events, such as changing weather patterns, animal behaviour, and the availability of plants and medicines.
Water, The Arts, Year 9, Year 10
The Swamp
New artistic mediums, such as short film, have enabled an evolution of storytelling and knowledge translation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Astronomy, Health and Physical Education, Year 5, Year 6
Seasonal foods and Aboriginal astronomy
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people pay close attention to the positions of the stars to determine seasonal change. This informs them about the behaviours of plants and animals that are used for food and medicine.
Fire, The Arts, Year 9, Year 10
Fire in song
Fire is an important part of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and features in many songs.
Fire, Health and Physical Education, Year 5, Year 6
Fire in ceremony
Many aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditional religious ceremonies and rituals are an important part of expressing cultural beliefs, meanings and concepts that link people to their environments in complex ways.
Water, Health and Physical Education, Year 3, Year 4
Water games and sports
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children traditionally played many fun water games to practice their swimming and diving, develop their coordination and teamwork, as well as to cool off and play.
Astronomy, Health and Physical Education, Year 7, Year 8
Aboriginal astronomy and appropriate relationships
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander laws, often conveyed in lore, contain strict rules about social behaviours, warning and punishing those who act in a disrespectful and harassing manner. This sort of negative behaviour is taboo, and helps the community maintain a healthy relationship and a communal sense of wellbeing.
Astronomy, Mathematics, Year 8
Mathematics, moon phases, and tides
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have long observed the phases of the Moon and used it to understand the tides and the effect on the environment around them.