RIC-0667 Aboriginal Cult 5-6

Rules and Responsibilities
Teachers Notes
• Write the word ‘learning’ on the board. Say the word and have the students
repeat it several times. Ask the students if they know what the word means.
Accept all answers.
• Ask ‘Where are some places we learn?’ Accept and discuss all answers.
• Make a list on the board of places where people learn, such as universities,
schools, playgroups, sport groups etc.
• Explain to the students that there are many different people responsible for
our learning. Give them some examples.
• Discuss and complete the worksheet.
• Read the information on page 88 to students. Discuss how traditional
Aboriginal children learnt, compared to the way the students learn today.
(For example, Aboriginal children learn from listening to traditional stories
and ‘doing’ things.)
• Ask ‘Why do you think the Aboriginal people taught their children this
way?’ Accept all answers, and explain to students that traditional Aboriginal
people did not have schools like today.
• Inform the students there are similarities in the way the Aboriginal children
learnt and how they learn. Read them an Aboriginal legend. (There are many
of these available in various books which your library should have.) Discuss
the story and question students on what they learnt from it.
• Explain to the students that Aboriginal children may have also been told the
story by their grandparents or parents, and they also had to listen to it being
told.
• Discuss and complete the worksheet.
Answers
2. Possible answers – wander away from camp, waste water, be greedy, walk around
the bush by himself/herself
3. Possible answers – not to be greedy, eating rules, to share, follow safety
instructions
• Read the information sheet to students. Focus on the information regarding
rules for Aboriginal children about not being greedy and their eating habits.
• Encourage students to have an input regarding their feelings about this.
• Give students the opportunity to discuss, with a partner then the class, how
they learn rules, who teaches them those rules and why they need to learn
them.
• Ask ‘Why did traditional Aboriginal children need to have such rules?’ Discuss
the answers.
• Complete the worksheet together.
Who Helps You
Learn?
(page 92)
Sharing
Responsibility
(page 93)
Learning Through
Stories
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Rules and Responsibilities
• Make a large chart with ‘Rules’ written across the top. Write four subheadings
of ‘school’, ‘home’, ‘road’, and ‘sport’. Draw boxes around each.
• Choose various students to give a sample rule for each subheading.
• As a class, look through magazines to find pictures to glue under each heading.
• Discuss class rules and what happens when they are broken. Talk about
consequences and why we need rules.
• Discuss and complete the worksheet.
Different Rules
(page 95)
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