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NSW Department of Education and Training

Curriculum support for NSW Public Schools

Aboriginal perspectives in Science 7-12

 

   Welcome to the "Aboriginal perspectives" in Science page

The Science Years 7-10 Syllabus provides opportunities to develop understanding of some aspects of Indigenous culture. The syllabus also provides opportunities in teaching and learning programs for the inclusion of Indigenous contexts relevant to areas such as ecology, the environment, and astronomy.


NEW RESOURCES

aboriginal flag   Living Knowledge

The Living Knowledge website was developed as part of an Australian Research Council (ARC) project: Indigenous knowledge and Western science pedagogy: a comparative approach. One of the project aims was to determine the most effective ways of incorporating Aboriginal and Indigenous knowledge within the NSW secondary school science curricula.

The website features a case study on Indigenous knowledge and includes online resources for teachers, students, researchers & interested others.
Further support materials for schools incorporating an Aboriginal community perspective in Years 7–10 Science have been developed as part of the NSW Department of Education 'Science in Context' contribution to this project.

Ideas for using the Living Knowledge website with students.

Documents available for download
Seasons in the Sun excursion

 

Survival in the Macleay journal
Survival at Crescent Head workbookSurvival in the Macleay program
Survival in the Macleay workbookTeacher Handbook Survival  Macleay
KHS_EdwinaRing_yr8_2005  

 

aboriginal flag    Making String  

An ethnobotanical learning journey on the south coast of NSW.
This article uses the cultural practice of string making to explore the thinking and decision making processes that take place within such practices and the relationships to western science understandings.

 

 Aboriginal Perspectives in Science

This Board of Studies project developed resources to support Science teachers in integrating, and in dealing with, Indigenous cross-curriculum content in culturally appropriate ways and in authentic contexts.

 work_commWorking with Aboriginal Communities: A Guide to Community Consultation and Protocols was designed to support educators in developing strategies for beginning the consultation process and for building an ongoing working relationship with their local Aboriginal community.

 

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