Advice for teaching First Nations content and concepts through Drama
Invaluable advice for teachers as you engage with the Time to Act principle of First Peoples First.
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Collaborative Futuring
The original Time to Act unit! Adapted for both primary and secondary contexts, this unit will have you and your students travelling through time, sharing how you truly feel about climate change, and working towards possibilities of a sustainable future.
Drama in a Shoebox
What does it mean to create drama that not only has sustainability themes, but is also sustainable across all areas of production? Suitable for middle years’ students, this unit will guide you through creating the magic of theatre with no more than a shoebox full of ‘rubbish’.
Frog in a Pond
The Frogs were happy in their pond…until the Litterer came along and tipped rubbish everywhere! Can the Frogs work together to save their ecosystem?
Teach young children empathy, understanding of interdependent ecosystems, and ways to reduce human impact, all while having fun in a whole class role-play!
Guidelines for Acting Green
Thinking, speaking, and acting green – how do you do it in your everyday classroom practice? These practical guidelines will help you to both teach sustainability through drama, and to ensure you and your students’ drama and theatre practice is sustainable across all production areas.
Lesson Stimulus: Possum Skin Cloaks
A collection of resources related to Possum Skin Cloaks, intended to stimulate your own development of curriculum materials.
The Long Way Home
Bright the Sugar Glider gets blown away from her home in a storm. With the help of Digby the Wombat and other friendly animals, can she find her way back again?
Help young children develop empathy, connect with their local environment, value our native creatures, and consider ways they can help to protect their homes.
The Suitcase Series
Malthouse Theatre’s Suitcase Series provides Year 9 and 10 students with opportunities to develop and expand their theatre-making skills and share work with peers, while exploring their relationship to climate change.
Unless: Exploring Sustainability in The Lorax
The Truffula Vale is under threat. The Onceler is eager to set up a thneed factory – cutting down truffula trees, poisoning the pond, and evicting barbaloots, fish, and swans in the process. Unless…
Help primary students think about economic, environmental, and social impacts and envision sustainable futures.
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Warm-Up: Collective Action
Encourage your students to work together to achieve goals and plan for action with this easy warm-up based on Keepie-Uppie!
Warm-Up: Infectious Diseases
Help your students understand how humans, plants, and animals are affected by infectious diseases and the measures that can be taken to control their transmission with this easy warm-up based on Wink Murder.
Warm-Up: Overfishing
Help your students understand how wild animals and plants are affected by private and commercial fishing, hunting and harvesting with this easy warm-up based on Octopus.
Warm-Up: Wildlife Corridors
Help your students understand how animals and animal habitats are affected by urbanisation, agriculture, and introduced species with this easy warm-up based on Floor is Lava.
