Biological Sciences
Explain the roles and interactions of consumers, producers and decomposers within a habitat and how food chains represent feeding relationships.
(AC9S4U01)
Elaborations: Describing how animals, including humans, obtain their food from plants and other animals.
Representing feeding relationships of producers and consumers as a food chain and comparing food chains across different habitats.
Recognising how First Nations Australians perceive themselves as being an integral part of the environment.
Chemical Sciences
Examine the properties of natural & made materials including fibres, metals, glass & plastics and consider how these properties influence their use. (AC9S4U04)
Elaboration: Considering how First Nations Australians use materials for different purposes, such as tools, clothing & shelter, based on their properties.
Earth and Space Sciences
Identify sources of water and describe key processes in the water cycle, including movement of water through the sky, landscape and ocean; precipitation; evaporation; and condensation. (AC9S4U02)
History
The diversity of First Nations Australians, their social organisation and their continuous connection to Country/Place. (AC9HS4K01)
Elaboration: Exploring the connection of First Nations Australians to the land and water and how they manage these resources.
Geography
The importance of environments, including natural vegetation and water sources, to people and animals in Australia and on another continent. (AC9HS4K05)
Elaborations: Explaining how people's connections with their environment can also be aesthetic, emotional and spiritual.
Exploring strategies to protect particular environments that provide habitats for animals; for example, planting bird-attracting vegetation.
Identifying the importance of water to the environment and to sustaining the lives of people and animals.
Sustainable use and management of renewable and non-renewable resources, including the custodial responsibility First Nations Australians have for Country/Place.
(AC9HS4K06)
Design & Technologies
Examine design and technologies occupations and factors including sustainability that impact on the design of products, services and environments to meet community needs. (AC9TDE4K01)
Elaboration: Exploring how many First nations Australians were & continue to be recognised for their specialist skills in designing and producing products made from local materials & providing related services, using sustainable practices to ensure future access to meet community needs, for example, traditional adhesives.
Describe how forces & the properties of materials affect function in a product or system. (AC9TDE4K02)
Elaboration: Researching how First Nations Australians consider buoyant forces as they select materials for watercraft, for example making bark or dugout canoes.
Describe the ways of producing food & fibre. (AC9TDE4K03)
Elaboration: Researching food & fibre production techniques & technologies developed by First nations Australians such as burning, tilling, planting, transplanting, watering, irrigating, weeding, thinning, cropping, storing & trading food.
Health & Physical Education
Making Active Choices
Participate in physical activities in natural and outdoor settings to examine factors that can influence their own and others' participation. (AC9HP4M05)
Making Healthy & Safe Choices
Investigate and apply behaviours that contribute to their own and others' health, safety, relationships and wellbeing. (AC9HP4P10)
Elaborations: Discussing the importance of a sense of belonging & connection in promoting mental health & wellbeing.
Identifying ways they can change their behaviours to support the sustainability of the Earth's systems.
Interacting with Others
Describe how valuing diversity influences wellbeing and identify actions that promote inclusion in their communities. (AC9HP4P05)
Elaboration: Recognising the important role of cultural narratives in describing the diversity, sharing beliefs and practices of First Nations communities.
Select, use and refine personal and social skills to establish, manage and strengthen relationships. (AC9HP4P04)
Elaboration: Discussing how demonstrating respect and empathy for First Nations Australians can build positive relationships.