What

Self-directed

When

Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday

Duration

30 minutes

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Curriculum links & Accessibility

Year level

Years 5 to 6

Maximum student numbers

Maximum 30 students

Cost

$7 per student + education service fee

Booking information

Bookings 13 11 02

School visit information

Explore how First Peoples responded to the arrival of Europeans and subsequent disruption to their connection to Country and culture.

Students will experience

• See important cultural items and read their accompanying stories
• Journey through 2000 generations of farming, trade, Ceremony, and creativity
• Listen to First Peoples voices
• Understand the impact of colonisation and early encounters on First Peoples in south-eastern Australia

Students will learn

• About the diversity of First Peoples
• The variable impacts of colonisation on different groups of First Peoples
• Our shared history and Naarm’s (Melbourne) false treaty
• The role government policy plays in the dispossession of First Nations children
• How First Peoples experience and express their culture today

Students will be provided

• Students will be provided with a trail booklet to guide them through the exhibition. It can also be used upon returning to school to reflect on the experience and extend their learning.
• Teachers should follow the trail on the map included in the booklet

Students will need

• Before visiting Bunjilaka, students should watch the Bunjilaka Introduction video
• Teachers may want to watch the videos on the Bunjilaka website, in particularly Boorun’s Canoe and Representing diversity - Videos - Bunjilaka (museumsvictoria.com.au)
• Students will require pencils to write or draw in their booklets (pens are not permitted within the exhibit)

Other key information

• Visit the Bunjilaka First Peoples page to learn more about the exhibit. Students with additional needs can view the Bunjilaka virtual tour before visiting to familiarise themselves with the space.

Victorian Curriculum links

History: level 5 to 6

The causes for the establishment of different British colonies on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ Countries and Places after 1800
VC2HH6K01

The impacts of the development of colonies on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, local-born colonists and migrants, and on the environment
VC2HH6K02

The continuities and changes associated with significant developments or events on a colony
VC2HH6K03

Continuities and changes in the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples during the 20th century
VC2HH6K11

Intercultural capability: level 5 to 6

How identity can be influenced by one or more cultures
VC2CI6C01

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures cross curriculum priorities:

The occupation and colonisation of the land now known as Australia by the British, under the now overturned doctrine of terra nullius, were experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as an invasion that denied their occupancy of, and connection to, Country and Place.
VC2CCPACP2

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies are diverse and have distinct cultural expressions, such as language, customs and beliefs. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural expressions, while also maintaining the right to control, protect and develop culture as Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property.
VC2CCPAC1

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people belong to the world’s oldest continuous cultures. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples demonstrate resilience in the maintenance, practice and revitalisation of culture despite the many historic and enduring impacts of colonisation, and they continue to celebrate and share the past, present and future manifestations of their cultures.
VC2CCPAC3

The significant and ongoing contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and their histories and cultures are acknowledged locally, nationally and globally.
VC2CCPAP3

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ ways of life reflect unique ways of being, knowing, thinking and doing.
VC2CCPAC2