Classroom Activity:
Watch Wandana Sean Ryan playing Didgeridoo and collect sticks to tap along to song, just like using your own clap sticks. Look at the clap sticks and various boomerangs on your Wandana artefacts chart.
Teachers Notes:
Returning boomerangs are made from wood and used for hunting, sport and entertainment. A returning boomerang is thrown above long grass to scare birds to fly into waiting nets. Depictions of returning boomerang’s being thrown at animals in some of the oldest rock art in the world in the Kimberley region of the Northern Territory date up to 50,000 years old. The oldest surviving boomerang was found in a peat bog in South Australia and dates back 10,000 years.
Links to the Early Years Learning Framework
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Learning Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world |
Outcome 2.1 Children develop a sense of belonging to groups and communities and an understanding of the reciprocal rights and responsibilities necessary for active community participation |
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Learning Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world |
Outcome 2.2 Children respond to diversity with respect |
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Learning Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners |
Outcome 4.1 Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity |
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Learning Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners |
Outcome 4.4 Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials |
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Learning Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators |
Outcome 5.2 Children engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from these texts |
Links to the National Quality Standards
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Element 1.2.1 |
Intentional teaching |
Educators are deliberate, purposeful, and thoughtful in their decisions and actions. |
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Standard 1.3 |
Assessment and planning |
Educators and co-ordinators take a planned and reflective approach to implementing the program for each child. |
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Element 6.2.3 |
Community engagement |
The service builds relationships and engages with its community. |
