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Draft planning document

Generative topic:  

Walk the Toorittya Trail at Rosetta

Overarching goal:  

Valuing the cultural diversity within our community

Unit-long understand goals:  
  • Understands the interdependence of our world, values its diversity and acts for a more inclusive society.
  • Understands the purposes and uses of a range of art forms - visual arts, media, dance, music, drama and literature and how to make and share meaning from and through them.
  • Uses with confidence and skill the codes and conventions of the art form best suited to their expressive needs.
Grade and subject:   K-10, Aboriginal perspectives
When:   March 2004 - October 2004.
Who:   Rosetta PS and Rosetta HS staff and students, Aboriginal Education Unit, ASSPA, Glenorchy Council, Media people. Palawa- general community links, School Councils, Parents and Friends, ATAS students, Precinct Group, Parents, Margate Aboriginal Centre, Aboriginal Speakers Program (artists and storytellers).
Planning team:   Staff representatives, student representatives, ASSPA students, Principals, Parents, Palawa representatives, other interested community members or students.
Access to:   Foreshore, bird life, Palawa, murals and sculptures, walking sites, Taraba book (including the story of Toorittya), Rosetta HS (hall, art block, space, oval, creek/foreshore reserve area, Make it Real program at Rosetta HS.
IT/Media activities:   Brochures, advertising techniques, video, photographic displays and recording of process, website (regular updates), PowerPoints.
Literacy activities:   Dreaming stories, scripts, poetry, instrumental writing, reviews, re-tellings, brochure, interview skills, letter writing.
Technology/Food activities:   Design, make and appraise, cooking.
Music activities:   Contemporary and traditional music, visiting musician, making and using instruments.
Student enterprise activities:   T-shirt designs and screen prints, original art works.
Dance and movement activities:   Role plays, interpretation of dreaming stories, viewing performances by students and professionals.
Numeracy activities:   Patter, measurement, design, shopping, money, budgets, spatial awareness, time management .
Art activities:   Invitation to local Indigenous artists, displays, student workshops (basket weaving, ceramic tiles, shells), use of ochre, Aboriginal inspired student art work.
Science/environment activities:   World futures, personal futures, foreshore, birdlife, comparisons to other environments.
History:   'Hall of fame' (traditional and contemporary Indigenous people), history of local area, time lines.
     
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