Achievement Standard:
Use a calendar to identify the date and the months included in seasons.
Content Description:
Name and order months and seasons
Elaborations investigating the seasons used by Aboriginal people, comparing them to those used in Western society and recognising the connection to weather patterns.
Use a calendar to identify the date and the months included in seasons.
Content Description:
Name and order months and seasons
Elaborations investigating the seasons used by Aboriginal people, comparing them to those used in Western society and recognising the connection to weather patterns.
Seasons and Months
WALT: List the different months of the year in order using a timeline, draw pictures to represent your connection to each month.
WILF: Cooperation, presentation and attentive listening.
WILF: Cooperation, presentation and attentive listening.
Before viewing
In what month where you born? What season is that? What type of weather do you often get in the month of your birthday?
What is your favourite season? Why?
Do you know what month follows September?
In what month does the school year begin? In what month does it end?
During Viewing
Look out for the four seasons. What is the weather usually like in each season?
What three months make up Autumn in southern Australia?
How many seasons are there in northern Australia?
Look at the order of months on the calendar. What comes after June? What is the last month on the calendar?
After Reading
On a calendar, mark in the day you were born. Mark in the day other family, relatives of friends were born. Do you have every month marked?
Work out who was born in summer, spring, winter or autumn. Where more people born in one season than the others?
Timeline of the Months
Jot down the names of the months and how many days they have if you can ( Remember the song)
Can you put the months of the year in order? Start at January. Draw a picture of what you like to do in each month. Think about the type of weather we have for each month. Show which season it is too! There might be sports you play in some months or family celebrations.
Tips to remember when creating a timeline:
You must use your ruler, the dates months must be equally spaced.
Tips to remember when creating a timeline:
You must use your ruler, the dates months must be equally spaced.
Aboriginal Seasons
Aboriginal communities across northern and western Australia have helped to develop seasonal calendars based on their ecological knowledge. The calendars link meteorological patterns with changes in plant and animal life across the year.
WALT: understand that seasons correlate with months. Recognize the difference between our seasons and the Aboriginal Seasons.
WILF: Attentive listening, especially during the video materials ( no interrupting)
WILF: Attentive listening, especially during the video materials ( no interrupting)
Before viewing
Many people follow the seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. In northern Australia, the year is often divided into two main seasons - the wet and the dry.
What kinds of things mark (show) a change of season?
In your local area, have you noticed changes in plants and animals that happen at a similar time each year?
During Viewing
What have the Aboriginal cultures used as one indicator of a change in seasons?
What three things is the seasonal calendar based on?
What sign do people of the Daly River region look for that tells them crocodile eggs are ready to be collected?
How might observing what animals are doing help predict changes in weather?
What is unique about Aboriginal ecological knowledge?
After Viewing
Why might the European idea of seasons (spring, summer, autumn and winter) not always be useful in northern Australia?
Why do you think it is important for the six Traditional Owner groups to document their knowledge about seasons? How do you think the Aboriginal peoples developed this knowledge?
Many people follow the seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. In northern Australia, the year is often divided into two main seasons - the wet and the dry.
What kinds of things mark (show) a change of season?
In your local area, have you noticed changes in plants and animals that happen at a similar time each year?
During Viewing
What have the Aboriginal cultures used as one indicator of a change in seasons?
What three things is the seasonal calendar based on?
What sign do people of the Daly River region look for that tells them crocodile eggs are ready to be collected?
How might observing what animals are doing help predict changes in weather?
What is unique about Aboriginal ecological knowledge?
After Viewing
Why might the European idea of seasons (spring, summer, autumn and winter) not always be useful in northern Australia?
Why do you think it is important for the six Traditional Owner groups to document their knowledge about seasons? How do you think the Aboriginal peoples developed this knowledge?
JOT THOUGHTS- RECORD AS MANY NAMES OF THE MONTHS OF THE YEAR THAT YOU CAN THINK OF
Teacher to hand out season names ( both Aboriginal and Australian )
Teacher to hand out season names ( both Aboriginal and Australian )
Using our knowledge of Aboriginal seasons
HASS Curriculum Link
Comparing the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People’s seasonal calendar for the local area with one students are familiar with, such as the four-seasons calendar derived from Europe.
Compare and Contrast Task
Comparing the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People’s seasonal calendar for the local area with one students are familiar with, such as the four-seasons calendar derived from Europe.
Compare and Contrast Task
compcon_chart.pdf | |
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Writing Dates
WALT: Be able to read dates and then use your understanding of how dates look when they are written so you can write your own birth date.
WILF: Perseverance and attentive listening when viewing the clip.
WILF: Perseverance and attentive listening when viewing the clip.
KEY:
Y= Year
M= Month
D= Day
According to the map, how do we in 'Australia' write our dates?
Which continents or countries write theirs differently?
Y= Year
M= Month
D= Day
According to the map, how do we in 'Australia' write our dates?
Which continents or countries write theirs differently?
Understanding
calendar_wwtbam.ppt | |
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year-medium1.pdf | |
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year-easy2.pdf | |
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Problem Solving and Reasoning
calendar_problems.pdf | |
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Use this blank calendar template to select dates and design questions for your shoulder partner to solve in Rally Coach.
august.pdf | |
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