People Have Lived In The Past | Kamay Botany Bay EEC
Early Stage 1 - History
Location
Kamay Botany Bay EEC - Kamay Botany Bay National Park, Kurnell
Unit description
Students explore how people lived in the past at Kamay Botany Bay National Park by engaging directly with Country, stories, objects and significant places. Through hands-on, place-based experiences, students learn that Aboriginal Peoples have lived on and cared for this Country for a long time. Students discover that people lived differently in the past and that places, stories and objects help us understand how people lived long ago and how people live today.
Key syllabus outcomes
- HSE-ACH-01 identifies ways that Aboriginal Peoples connect with Country, Culture and Community
- HSE-HIS-01 identifies information about daily life and transport in the past, using stories, images and objects
Content groups
Aboriginal Peoples are connected to Country
- Identify importance and differences between Welcome to Country and Acknowledgement of Country
- Identify ways local Aboriginal Peoples connect to Country by engaging with Aboriginal Dreaming Stories, objects and Oral Histories
- Engage with Cultural objects to identify information about the past in the present
People use stories, images and objects to show changes over time
- Compare features of daily life that have changed over time using stories, images and objects
- Describe how transport has changed over time, using stories, images and objects
- Describe Aboriginal Peoples’ use of bark canoes and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ use of dugout canoes, using stories and objects using stories and objects
Suggested timetable
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Introduction, toilets & fruit break/recess |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | Living on Country and objects from the past |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Stories on Country |
| 12:30 – 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 2:00 | The same place long ago and today |
| 2:00 | Wrap up, toilet break, roll call and depart |
* There may be variations to timetable based on specific location, group size and weather
Students will:
- Explore how Aboriginal Peoples lived on Country through a bush walk
- Participate in hands-on activities using natural materials and Aboriginal tools and weapons
- Investigate how the same place has been used in the past and today on the rock platform and beach shoreline
- Develop an understanding of how people care for places today