GEOGRAPHY
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Land Use HERE
Land usage and management on Berry Island Reserve
Students learn to:
• Explore an important historical site.
• Students learn to draw conclusions from historical artefacts present at the site, and information provided to them.
• Gather information and conduct
research on a specific topic.
Students learn about:
• Students learn about the history of Berry Island, and its importance to the Indigenous Australians that inhabited it.
• Students learn about how the Indigenous Australians used the multitude of resources present at the site.
ACTIVITIES
Think and do
Students think about what they have learnt during the Berry Island Site visit and jot down points in their books.
Share a story
Students share a story with their fellow class members on what they found interesting/learnt during the site visit.
Connect
Students share ideas and connect to issues of land usage/management on Berry Island.
Watch first, then do
Students explore the website after watching the teacher explore the homepage. Students also recall/retell problematic knowledge during this activity.
Think and do
Students complete worksheet activity - use knowledge they have gained from the site visit to complete questions on land usage/management.
Think and do, Try a new way
Teacher assesses student knowledge through Kahoot quiz. Students able to think and do through a different means - and compete against each other for prizes.
Share with Others
Students talk in large yarn circle about their experience and understanding of the place.
Watch first, then do
Students then fill in worksheet (in groups of 3-4 with differing tasks) by self-directed study.
Share with Others
Students share their new knowledge with others in yarn circle.
Think and Do, Draw it - hands on
Students reflect on Berry Island with choice of tasks (poem, drawing, story, journal entry)
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Physical and Human Environments HERE
Physical and human environments:
Past and present
ACTIVITIES
Listen to a story, Make a Plan
Undertake a short historical investigation of Berry Island images/sounds/videos - think about past and present uses / purposes / rights / conflicting imagery.
Think and Do
Discuss images/sounds/videos: who has rights to access and why; who lived there once and who goes there now; what was Berry Island used for and by whom; what is Berry Island used for now. Ideas added to concept map.
Watch first, then do
Undertake an inquiry-based activity (problematic knowledge) starting with a Listening Activity:
Aboriginal heritage officer (Karen Smith) and others tell the story of Berry Island.
Draw it - hands on
Mapping activity: sketch their own map/s of Berry Island (using scale and grids)
Think and Do, Try a New Way
Create their own narrative story - Berry Island
Narrative Worksheet - Then and Now
Share with Others
Students read their stories to rest of class.
Add to concept map of Berry Island based on their new knowledge from others.
Students recall and write 3 things they learnt during the Berry Island Reserve site visit- especially what they learnt from Aboriginal education officer Karen Smith.
After viewing slides on land use and
management, students develop their own inquiry about how the land is being used and managed currently on Berry Island Reserve - leading to them filling in the worksheet.
Then students participate in a Kahoot quiz. Students give teacher valuable
feedback through the thumbs up/down strategy and explain what they liked/
disliked during the lesson.
Students learn to:
• Create their own detailed maps
• Use specific geographical terminology and skills
• Analyse and compare land uses
• Assess how land usage and rights to
access have changed - and why this is so
Students learn about:
• How maps are selective representations of place
• Implementing mandatory geographical skills
• Competing and conflicting land usages
• Rights of people to places
• Understanding connection/s to place
Students undertake a short historical
investigation looking at a series of
Berry Island images. Students are to think about past and present uses/ purpose / conflicting imagery - land uses; rights to access; who once lived there; who goes there now. (Narrative and Cultural Knowledge).
They then undertake an inquiry based activity (problematic knowledge)\ starting with a Listening Activity: Aboriginal heritage officer (Karen Smith) and others tell the story of Berry Island. (Cultural Knowledge)
Students sketch their own map of Berry Island on the provided Berry Island Mapping Worksheet
Students write two short story narratives about Berry Island using the scaffold worksheet - one is from an Indigenous perspective before invasion, the other for present day.