Canoeing

Biological Sciences

Examine how particular structural features and behaviours of living things enable their survival in specific habitats. (AC9S5U01)

Elaboration: Identify physical and behavioural characteristics that enable a plant or animal to survive.

Science Inquiry

Pose investigable questions to identify patterns & test relationships  & make reasonable predictions. (AC9S5I01)

Elaboration: Acknowledging & using information from First Nations Australians to guide the formulation of investigable questions about structural features & behaviours of living things.

Geography

The influence of people, including First Nations Australians and people in other countries, on the characteristics of a place. (AC9HS5K04)

Elaboration: Identifying how First Nations Australian communities altered the environment and sustained ways of living through their methods of land and resource management.

The management of Australian environments, including managing severe weather events such as bushfires, floods, droughts or cyclones, and their consequences. (AC9HS5K05)

Elaboration: Exploring how environments are used and managed, such as the practices and laws that aim to manage human impact, the use of zoning to manage local environments, creation of wildlife corridors and national parks.

Economics & Business

Types of resources, including natural, human and capital, and how they satisfy needs and wants. (AC9HS5K08)

Elaboration: Distinguishing between needs and wants, and how resources might be used more sustainably to meet these needs and wants into the future.

Health & Physical Education

Moving our bodies

Refine and apply fundamental movement skills in new movement situations. (AC9HP4M01)

Apply and adapt movement strategies to achieve movement outcomes. (AC9HP4M02)

Demonstrate how movement concepts related to effort, space, time, objects and people can be applied when performing movement sequences. (AC9HP4M03)

Making Active Choices

Participate in physical activities that enhance health and wellbeing in natural and outdoor settings, and analyse the steps and resources needed to promote participation. (AC9HP6M05)

Making Healthy & Safe Choices

Analyse how behaviours influence the health, safety, relationships and wellbeing of individuals and communities. (AC9HP6P10)

Elaboration: Describing strategies to support a sense of belonging & connection, and recognising the importance of social support for enhancing mental health & wellbeing.

Interacting with Others

Describe and implement strategies to value diversity in their communities. (AC9HP6P05)

Elaboration: Exploring the importance of cultural expressions of First Nations Australians in maintaining a continuing deep connection to Country/Place & its influence on wellbeing.  

Biological Sciences

Investigate the physical conditions of a habitat and analyse how the growth and survival of living things is affected by changing physical conditions. (AC9S6U01)

Elaborations: Identifying the physical conditions in an aquatic or terrestrial habitat and how they change over time.

Investigating First Nations Australians' knowledges and understandings of the physical conditions necessary for the survival of certain plants and animals.

Science as a Human Endeavour

Nature and Development of Science

Examine why advances in Science are often the result of collaboration or build on the work of others. (AC9S6H01)

Elaborations: Investigate how contemporary restorative ecology adapts and builds on the traditional ecological knowledges of First Nations Australians.

Examining why ecologists collaborate with engineers & computer scientists to develop management & tracking techniques, identify patterns in habitat change & make predictions.

Health & Physical Education

Moving our bodies

Adapt and modify movement skills across a variety of situations. (AC9HP6M01)

Transfer familiar movement strategies to different movement situations. (AC9HP6M02)

Investigate how different movement concepts related to effort, space, time, objects and people can be applied to improve movement outcomes. (AC9HP6M03)

Making Active Choices

Participate in physical activities that enhance health and wellbeing in natural and outdoor settings, and analyse the steps and resources needed to promote participation. (AC9HP6M05)

Making Healthy & Safe Choices

Analyse how behaviours influence the health, safety, relationships and wellbeing of individuals and communities. (AC9HP6P10)

Elaboration: Describing strategies to support a sense of belonging & connection, and recognising the importance of social support for enhancing mental health & wellbeing.

Interacting with Others

Describe and implement strategies to value diversity in their communities. (AC9HP6P05)

Elaboration: Exploring the importance of cultural expressions of First Nations Australians in maintaining a continuing deep connection to Country/Place & its influence on wellbeing. 

Describe and demonstrate how respect and empathy can be expressed to positively influence relationships. (AC9HP6P04)

Elaboration: Recognising how words & labels used regarding First Nations Australians can cause offence and how this awareness can support & strengthen respectful relationships.

First Nations communities of Australia maintain a deep connection to, and responsibility for, Country/Place and have holistic values and belief systems that are connected to the land, sea, sky and waterways. (A_TSICP1)

First Nations Australians' ways of life reflect unique ways of being, knowing, thinking and doing. (A_TSIC2)

The significant and ongoing contributions of First Nations Australians and their histories and cultures are acknowledged locally, nationally and globally. (A_TSIP3)

The First Peoples of Australia belong to the world's oldest continuous cultures. First Nations Australians demonstrate resilience in the maintenance, practice and revitalisation of culture and continue to celebrate and share the past, present and future manifestations of their cultures. (A_TSIC3)

All life forms, including human life, are connected through Earth's systems (geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere) on which they depend for their wellbeing and survival. (SS1)

Sustainable patterns of living require the responsible use of resources, maintenance of clean air, water and soils, and preservation or restoration of healthy environments. (SS2)

Critical and Creative Thinking – Inquiring, Generating, Analysing, Reflecting.

Personal and Social Capabilities - Self-awareness, Self-management, Social awareness, Social management. 

Intercultural Understanding - Reflect on the relationship between cultures and identities; Examine cultural perspectives and worldviews and explore the influence of cultures on interactions.

Ethical Understanding - Explore ethical concepts; Examine values, rights and responsibilities and ethical norms; Recognise influences on ethical behaviour and perspectives.