Classroom Activity:
Look at Ceremonial cloak on the Wandana artefacts chart provided. Draw in sandpit with stick to create your own design for a Ceremonial cloak. Draw an outline of a kangaroo skin and draw/paint your own design.
Teachers Notes:
Aboriginal people of south, eastern Australia often wore possum skin cloaks which were worn for warmth, used as baby carriers at night, drums in Ceremony and for burial. They were worn from a young age with cloaks made from a few skins sewn together to wrap a baby. Over time and as the person grew, so did the size of their cloaks.
Kangaroo skins were also used to make cloaks for wearing with designs incised on the skin side for the wearer to represent their totems, status and kinship. The kangaroo meat was eaten, teeth used to make needles and sinew from the tail used as thread.
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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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. |
