Resources
Title & time length / Image / Gallery / Questions / Brainstorm / Follow UpTalwalpin & Kowinka
Approx. 5:19mins
Community:______
Location:______ / / SLQ Gallery (level 2)
Touchscreen or Projector / What colour was the flower Talwalpin put in her hair?
Why did the tribe call out for them to come back?
What were they worried about?
What are the two plants that grow side by side? / Name as many plant/animal relationships you can think of that rely on each other to survive. / Explore symbiotic relationships back in class. Create a story to explain one of your class’ choosing.
How Bama got Biri
Approx. 5:19mins
Community:______
Location:______ / / SLQ Gallery (level 2)
Touchscreen or Projector / What is Biri?
How did Badjindjila get Biri?
What happened to Badjindjila as he flew past the Rainbow Man? / Name all the animals, birds and parts of the environment you saw in the animation. / Explore rainbows back in class. Create a rainbow for your classroom
Wonga & Nudu
Approx. 5:19mins
Community:______
Location:______ / / SLQ Gallery (level 2)
Touchscreen or Projector / Have you ever strayed away from your family? What happened?
Why is it important for children to stay where they are told to play? / List the school / class rules that help keep you safe. / Explore safety rules back in class. Create a story to teach others about your rules and why they are important.
Myths of the Galaxy
Approx. 5:19mins
Community:______
Location:______ / / SLQ Gallery (level 2)
Touchscreen or Projector / Do you know any stories that explain the existence of the moon, stars and other astral bodies?
What happened in the story?
Why did it happen? / List any stories or songs you know that explain how the galaxy was formed. / Explore the planets back in class. Create a story to explain how different parts were made.
Goori Goori Bird
Approx. 5:19mins
Community:______
Location:______ / / SLQ Gallery (level 2)
Touchscreen or Projector / What does it mean when an animal or plant becomes extinct?
What does it mean when a plant or animal is called endangered?
Why is environmental conservation important? / List the animals and plants you think are currently endangered. / Explore environmental conservation back in class.
Create a story to help conserve an endangered species.
The Butterfly
Approx. 5:19mins
Community:______
Location:______ / / SLQ Gallery (level 2)
Touchscreen or Projector
iPad activity / How did Caterpillar turn into Butterfly?
How did the plants, trees, flowers and other things get all their colours?
What other reasons does a butterfly travel from flower to flower? / List other animals that start out one thing and turn into another. / Explore changes in animal appearance over the course of their lives. Create a story to explain the change in a particular species.
Blue Mountain Butterfly
Approx. 5:19mins
Community:______
Location:______ / / SLQ Gallery (level 2)
Touchscreen or Projector / Why did the beautiful woman get into trouble with the water? / List some things you are grateful for. / Explore the concepts of appreciation and value. Create a story about something you are grateful for.
Buda:dji
Approx. 5:19mins
Community:______
Location:______ / / SLQ Gallery (level 2)
Touchscreen or Projector
PBH Gallery (level 4)
LCD screen / What do you know about the Rainbow Serpent? / List any stories or songs you know that explain how the land was formed. / Explore geographical types of land formation. Create a story that explains how a certain land formation was made.
Tree Duck
Approx. 5:19mins
Community:______
Location:______ / / SLQ Gallery (level 2)
Touchscreen or Projector / What was stolen every day from the duck?
Melong is the spirit of what?
How did Melong punish the water-rat? / List any stories or songs you know that involves one character stealing from another character. / Explore the concept of motivation. Create a story that explains a motivation of yours.
How the Water got to the Plains
Approx. 5:19mins
Community:______
Location:______ / / SLQ Gallery (level 2)
Touchscreen or Projector
iPad activity / What was stolen?
Why was it stolen?
What happened when it was stolen?
Why is stealing considered a crime? / List any stories or songs you know that involves morals. / Explore the concept of morals. Create a story that explains what morals are important to you.
Tuggan Tuggan
Approx. 5:19mins
Community:______
Location:______ / / SLQ Gallery (level 2)
Touchscreen or Projector / Why did the silky oak get its golden cloak?
What are the major messages in this story? / List any interesting botanical facts the class knows. Discuss how they learnt those facts. / Develop a class booklet of all the stories you can find that explain how trees, plants, flowers or shrubs got individual characteristics.
Didipapa and Gorarasiasi
Approx. 5:19mins
Community:______
Location:______ / / SLQ Gallery (level 2)
Touchscreen or Projector
PBH Gallery (level 4)
LCD screen / What did the men decide to do?
Why do you think they made that decision?
What were the lessons learned? / List all the decisions you make in a day. / Design a board game that players have to make certain decisions to progress and eventually win.
The Hawkesbeak Turtle
Approx. 5:19mins
Community:______
Location:______ / / SLQ Gallery (level 2)
Touchscreen or Projector
PBH Gallery (level 4)
LCD screen / How did the Ankamatti people solve the problems they faced? Describe the process. / List how problems can be solved. What are the various methods you use to solve problems? / Design a board game that players have to solve problems as a group.
The Rainbow Serpent
Approx. 5:19mins
Community:______
Location:______ / / SLQ Gallery (level 2)
Touchscreen or Projector / Talk about the graphics used in the animation to depict the Rainbow Serpent. How have you seen it depicted? How has it been different? How has been similar? / List the animals that you think impact the environment? In what ways do they effect the earth. / Make a picture of an animal and show their impact on the environment.
The Southern Cross Story
Approx. 5:19mins
Community:______
Location:______ / / SLQ Gallery (level 2)
Touchscreen or Projector
PBH Gallery (level 4)
LCD screen / Ask the students to think about other creation stories they have heard that remind them of this story.
How are those stories similar? How are they different? / Why do different people have different ideas on how the world was formed? / Create a story explaining how you believe the earth was created.
Nanji and Nguandi
Approx. 5:19mins
Community:______
Location:______ / / SLQ Gallery (level 2)
Touchscreen or Projector
iPad activity
PBH Gallery (level 4)
LCD screen / What could Nanji and Nguandi do well?
What is this story about?
What messages does the story have? / What other stories do we know that are about love and marriage? / Make a picture in class that depicts one of the scenes in the Nanji and Nguandi story.
Goonda-Dani-Booloo
Approx. 5:19mins
Community:______
Location:______ / / SLQ Gallery (level 2)
Touchscreen or Projector
PBH Gallery (level 4)
LCD screen / From the stories about the Rainbow Serpent what features and personality traits does the serpent have?
Ask the students to share their interpretations of the Rainbow Serpent. / List some other ways that the land could have been formed. / Explore land formation. Create pictures to explain how a particular formation was created.
Why the Kookaburra Laughs
Approx. 5:19mins
Community:______
Location:______ / / SLQ Gallery (level 2)
Touchscreen or Projector
PBH Gallery (level 4)
LCD screen / Who is Yindingie?
What is his role in the story?
Describe his actions.
Why did the kookaburra laugh? / List some other stories where the characters in the story are either greedy and/or selfish. / Explore the concept and greed and create a story on what greed can mean to a community.
Julli-Julli
Approx. 5:19mins
Community:______
Location:______ / / SLQ Gallery (level 2)
Touchscreen or Projector / What did Julli-Julli do?
What was Julli-Julli’s punishment?
What does this story tell us about how to behave? / Brainstorm some bad behaviours and think of an animals that the person could be turned into. Why that animal? / Explore stories that turn people into animals as a punishment. Create your own.
Gelam
Approx. 5:19mins
Community:______
Location:______ / / SLQ Gallery (level 2)
Touchscreen or Projector
PBH Gallery (level 4)
LCD screen / Why was Gelam’s mother upset with him?
Why did Gelam leave his home?
What animal inspired Gelam’s canoe shape? / What do you know about the dugong? / Design a boat in the shape of a sea animal. Create a picture that explains where that animal lives.
Cape Treasures
Approx. 11min loop
Community:______
Location:______ /
/ kuril dhugan – level 1
Projection 3 – Behind the dugong’s tail / What type of environment is the story set in?
How does the environment effect how the story is told?
What were the animation features that make you think that?
Could the story be told the same in a different location?
What parts of the story would change if it was set in a different environment?
What parts of the story could remain the same? / Find where these stories are being told by investigating the labels and linking the place names to the maps provided in the space. / Research your favourite stories and create a class map to show others where those stories are from.
The Kaangkan Brothers
Approx. 3:35min
Community:______
Location:______ / / kuril dhugan – level 1
Touchscreen or Projector / What was the name of the river where the brothers lived?
Can you recall the animals that were in the river as the brothers walked along it?
What chased the brothers? What did the brothers find themselves in the middle of?
Why did the brothers leave their home?
What did the brothers return as? / Find where these stories are being told by investigating the labels and linking the place names to the maps provided in the space. / Research your favourite stories and create a class map to show others where those stories are from.
The Wallaby and the Dugong
Approx. 1:45min
Community:______
Location:______ / / kuril dhugan – level 1
Touchscreen or Projector / What did the wallaby and dugong not like? Why?
What Island did the dugong swim to?
What was the name of the creek where the dugong family eventually live?
Do you know any other stories where there is an animal with features from various animals? / Find where these stories are being told by investigating the labels and linking the place names to the maps provided in the space. / Create an animal with different animal features. Draw and name your new found species.
The Journey to Injinoo
Approx. 2:50min
Community:______
Location:______ / / kuril dhugan – level 1
Touchscreen or Projector / What was the relationship between the two travellers?
What was the first animal they saw? What happened to that animal?
What did one of the men make to help the other cross the water?
What did the other man do while the man made it? Why?
What was the second animal they saw? What happened to that animal? Who did the men want to visit in Injinoo? / Find where these stories are being told by investigating the labels and linking the place names to the maps provided in the space. / Decide where you would like to go and create a story to tell others how you might get there.
Scrub Hen
Approx 1:07min
Community:______
Location:______ / / kuril dhugan – level 1
Touchscreen or Projector / What flower has to be blooming?
What do the women know happens when the flower blooms?
What months do the women look for the eggs? / Find where these stories are being told by investigating the labels and linking the place names to the maps provided in the space. / Imagine what you could hunt and create a story on how you caught it.
Porky hunting
Approx. 0:33min
Community:______
Location:______ / / kuril dhugan – level 1
Touchscreen or Projector loop / How did the brothers find the “porcupine” (Australian echidna)?
Have you ever eaten an Australian native animal?
What do you think an animal with spikes would taste like? / Find where these stories are being told by investigating the labels and linking the place names to the maps provided in the space. / Create a picture of a hunting scene.
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