Caring for Country: Fire (home learning)

Caring for Country: Fire (home learning)

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  • Year 1 - 2
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Lesson summary

Children will have the opportunity to explore the constellations of the night sky, and will understand that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples may use the night sky to understand the world around them. Your child/ren will then create a constellation of something or someone that is important to them.

This activity is designed to give you an understanding of how to embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives into activities and to help you build your confidence in exploring this topic with your children.

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EYLF Learning Outcomes:

Learning Outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of identity

1.4 Children learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect

Learning Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world

2.2 Children respond to diversity with respect

Learning Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners

4.1 Children develop a growth mindset and learning dispositions such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity

4.4 Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials

Resources required

  • access to a device to share a clip
  • a book to read or story ideas to share around the campfire (check our list of suggested resources for some book ideas)
  • materials for creating a pretend campfire, such as:
    • sticks and leaves
    • coloured paper or cellophane to represent fire
    • stones to create a circular fire pit
    • cooking equipment
    • pretend food
    • cushions for sitting on.

Additional info

This is an original Cool+ activity.

This activity is designed to give you an understanding of how to embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives into activities at your centre and to help you build your confidence in exploring this topic with children and families.

This activity is a great one to do together as a family.

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