Indigenous Studies Lesson 8

 

Land Rights and Reconciliation. This resource is fantastic for Australian History lessons from Year 3 – Year 8. Students learning about first contacts or Indigenous Australians and their recent past will be amazed by historical events in this resource that took place from 1900’s until today’s time.

Includes 14 informational slides to teach your lesson and one task for students to complete. The task involves researching Australian Reconciliation Week and creating posters using past themes, symbols and words.

 

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Students will learn about:

  • Land rights and social justice – definitions and linking the two together
  • Claims for Indigenous Rights: 5 notable events
  • The Tent Embassy outside of Parliament House
  • The difference and similarities of Land Rights & Native Title
  • Legislating Indigenous Land Rights
  • The Eddie Mabo Case
  • Beginning the Reconciliation process
  • National Reconciliation Week
  • Ditching ‘Terra Nullius’
  • Unfinished Business of Reconciliation

 

Also includes:

  • A task involving creating a four posters that promote National Reconciliation Day by researching past annual celebrations and recording central themes.

 

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