AC9ADA6E02 Year 5 The Arts

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 The Arts provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

explore the ways that First Nations Australians use dance to continue and revitalise cultures

Elaborations

• 1 exploring, using resources created or co-created by First Nations Australians, how and why cultural expressions are critical for sharing continuing or revitalising cultures
• 2 investigating how meaning and purpose are communicated in dance choreographed and/or performed by First Nations Australians; for example, observing how movements are used to share cultural knowledge with the broader community in a dance performed at a community event, or using resources created or co-created by First Nations Australians
• 3 experiencing how First Nations Australians’ telling of ways stories and ideas communicate connection to and responsibility for Country/Place; for example, exploring how dance communicates knowledge about weather events or knowledge of sustainable practices for caring for land, sea, sky and waterway
• 4 using Viewpoints to develop questions to build understanding about First Nations Australians’ dances and exploring what they could investigate further, such as “What do I already know about this dance practice?”, “What do I need to learn to have a better understanding?”, “What knowledge can I share with others?”, “What questions would I ask the dancers about this performance?”
• 5 exploring how dances that tell stories maintain culture; for example, narrative dances that communicate knowledge about sustainable approaches to locating and gathering food or stories about how places got their names

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