screenshots of: Dust Echoes, an interactive site for students to learn about Aboriginal dreamtime stories as well as the terminology used within Aboriginal culture. The site also offers dreamtime story videos with the written text available enabling students to read the stories rather than just watching the video.
http://www.abc.net.au/dustechoes/dustEchoesFlash.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/dustechoes/dustEchoesFlash.htm
Ways you might use this literacy:
- English (Literature) (ACARA, 2014a): Have students write down their own dreamtime stories:- before this can occur students need to develop an understanding of what a dreamtime story is, what is the purpose of the text and what does each dreamtime story have in common?
- Art (ACARA, 2014b): Once the students have developed a reasonable amount of knowledge of Aboriginal culture, challenge them to create miniature huts which Aboriginal's would have had/do live in.
- Mathematics (Measurement and Geography: Location and Transformation)(ACARA, 2014d): Aboriginal dreamtime stories share the Aboriginal's belief of the creation of certain landmarks in Australia. Giving the students a map of the landmark area along with a dreamtime story based on travelling, students are to work out the distance of the story.
- Art (ACARA, 2104b): Students are to paint their own pictures in reflection of the dreamtime story in Aboriginal art form. This will involve the students to further research the story and its location due to different tribes having different art techniques such as dot painting or line painting.