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Your Assignment Module Number and Heading: CHCIC302A - Support Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Families to participate in children's services
Your Assignment Type: Standard Question
Currently Working in Childcare? No
Your knowledge: Beginner

Your Question?
Selecting & Implementing children's experience

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i have tried to gather as much information for my local area Sydney - Gadigal clan in regards to choosing & implementing an appropriate activity but am really struggling to get any information for just this particular area. Any advice on who to talk to to get any more information would be great.

Description and Message:
i was thinking that asking a member of the Gadigal community to come to the centre & talk to the children, perhaps tell the some dreamtime stories & then have the children paint something based on what the remember from the story. activity aimed at the 3-5yr room of a centre.

I happen to come across the Royal Botanic garden site and it talks about indigenous Australians - the Cadigals. It gives details about a display within the Royal Botanic Gardens based on this clan and I thought maybe you could use some of these ideas to create your experience.

The Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust commemorates the culture and lifestyle of the original Indigenous inhabitants, the Cadigal, in its Cadi Jam Ora: First Encounters garden display.

The display attempts to convey the vegetation that would have existed around Sydney Harbour prior to European invasion/settlement approximately 200 years ago. A woodland with tall eucalyptus and an under storey of banksia, wattles, perhaps waratahs and ground orchids would have covered the land now occupied by the Royal Botanic Garden. The sandstone outcrops and a few remaining Forest Red Gums in the Royal Botanic Garden are the present-day reminders of a time just over two centuries ago.

Aboriginal people have a holistic connectedness both to place and to each other. Their culture is alive today and their oral tradition is unbroken. We can learn a lot about Indigenous cultures by studying Aboriginal bush foods, that is, native plants and how they were used for food, shelter, utensils and weapons.

Ref: http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/education/ ... _of_sydney

From the above information you could do a flower collage on the flowers mentioned, introducing bush tucker foods for the children to try (you can get a bush tucker person to come out to the service), or how the Cardigal clan used the nature and surroundings to survive.

Hope this gives you some ideas,

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L.A