Aboriginal Education Resources

Curriculum Aligned • Lesson Plans • Videos • Worksheets • Digital Activities • Classroom Resources

WINGARU KIDS
FOR SCHOOLS

Incorporating Aboriginal education in the classroom helps all students build the shared knowledge needed to understand and respect the world’s oldest continuous living culture. As an educator, you play a critical role in developing this understanding.

By bundling PD and resources, Wingaru Kids is delivering a system of support that provides both the resources that teachers can use in the classroom and the background knowledge of how and why to use them.

Created by Aboriginal people, Wingaru Kids is jam packed with:

Teacher Professional Development
Curriculum-Aligned Lesson Plans
Video, Digital Activities and Printable Classroom Resources
Authentic and Accurate Content
Engaging, Interactive Easy-to-Use Format

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We Provide Everything You Need to Teach Aboriginal Perspectives with Confidence

Each Lesson includes:

Curriculum-Aligned
Lesson Plan

Curriculum-Aligned
Outcomes

MarkBook

Video

Digital Activities

Printable Activities

We Provide Everything You Need to Teach Aboriginal Perspectives with Confidence

Each Lesson includes:

Curriculum-Aligned
Lesson Plan

Curriculum-Aligned
Outcomes

MarkBook

Video

Digital Activities

Printable Activities

Wingaru Kids is a digital platform designed to support teachers in the classroom to provide Aboriginal perspectives to all students within their teaching programs. The platform covers topics that are relevant to all Aboriginal communities. We explore Australian history pre-1770 contact, first contact, and customary life for Aboriginal people before colonisation. We examine Indigenous science and technologies, land-management practices, and cultural expression. We also look at issues such as reconciliation, the Stolen Generation, Aboriginal identity and political movements that have influenced Aboriginal Australia today. We have a number of Dreaming lessons, with stories from all over Australia. We consider language and explain the concept of language groups, so students begin to understand there is not just one Aboriginal language. We also look at language revitalisation and why it is so important. New lessons are added regularly so there is always something to explore.

Watch

Explore topics with fun and informative videos. Each video provides all the information students need to complete the lesson and can be watched as many times as desired.

Play

Children get to engage with the information from the video by completing digital activities. Each lesson has three activities, and the associated game centre offers additional game-based learning.

Learn

Connect with Aboriginal Australian culture by exploring the content and gaining new knowledge and perspectives. Each lesson contributes to developing students’ respect for diversity and understanding of cultural differences.

Why teach all Australian kids about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives?

Because all kids should get the chance to:

Engage with the stories and knowledge of the oldest continuous culture on earth.

Recognise more sustainable ways of living in connection with the land.

Be able to challenge the often-biased media coverage of First Nations People.

Appreciate the mistreatment of Aboriginal People since colonisation and how this has led to intergenerational trauma.

Discover the physical and chemical sciences used by Aboriginal People in their everyday lives.

Promote a shared understanding, recognition, respect and reconciliation for future generations.

Engage with the stories and knowledge of the oldest continuous culture on earth.

Recognise more sustainable ways of living in connection with the land.

Be able to challenge the often-biased media coverage of First Nations People.

Appreciate the mistreatment of Aboriginal People since colonisation and how this has led to intergenerational trauma.

Discover the physical and chemical sciences used by Aboriginal People in their everyday lives.

Promote a shared understanding, recognition, respect and reconciliation for future generations.

All our Lessons Correlate Directly with the Australian Curriculum

Our lessons are linked to all Key Learning Areas in the curriculum so teachers can deliver Aboriginal content across their teaching program, as the curriculum intends. This approach supports the inclusion of diverse perspectives, which ensures students are benefitting from a broad range of Indigenous knowledge and Australian history. This is both engaging and contributes to an in-depth understanding of the complexities of our country’s history as well as the spectacular culture of Australia’s First Nations.

What Teachers Love About Wingaru Kids

Interactive and Engaging

Our lessons provide authentic and engaging interactive content for exploring First Nations’ perspectives. Based on a Watch-Play-Learn format, students have access to exclusive videos, digital activities and educational games.

FREE Professional Development (PD)

Subscription accounts include two hours self-paced PD (valued at $129pp) for all registered teachers. Learn more here

Comprehensive Lesson Plans

We provide comprehensive curriculum-aligned lesson plans and teaching guides for every lesson. These are packed full of culturally appropriate information, saving teachers time and providing them with the confidence to regularly – and easily – include Aboriginal perspectives in the classroom.

Support and Guidance

Teachers are supported 24/7 via content and platform guides in the Teacher Centre, which include cultural guidance and ways to connect with the local Aboriginal community.

Differentiated Learning

Individual accounts for all students provide teachers with the ability to incorporate flexible learning approaches and activities. Giving each student the tools to learn in their own way ensures maximum understanding of the information.

Real-time Mark Book

Interactive MarkBook facilities allow teachers to follow student development in real time and review progress and results at a glance. This application also greatly reduces marking time.

What Teachers Love About Wingaru Kids

Interactive and Engaging

FREE Professional Development (PD)

Subscription accounts include two hours self-paced PD (valued at $129pp) for all registered teachers. Learn more here

Comprehensive Lesson Plans

Support and Guidance

Teachers are supported 24/7 via content and platform guides in the Teacher Centre, which include cultural guidance and ways to connect with the local Aboriginal community.

Differentiated Learning

Real-time Mark Book

Interactive MarkBook facilities allow teachers to follow student development in real time and review progress and results at a glance. This application also greatly reduces marking time.

What Students Love About Wingaru Kids

Exciting and Engaging

Every Australian child has the right to learn about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People and culture. We make learning about these exciting cultures engaging and fun with exclusive videos, digital activities and educational games.

Individual Account

Individual accounts for each student allows children to feel confident exploring the content at their own pace.

Variety of topic areas

The platform has an incredible variety of topic areas, including history, art, language, culture, notable people and more, which means there is something to appeal to every child and project.

Storytelling

Storytelling is a significant factor in children’s ability to process information. The stories embedded in the platform help students to connect with the content; being able to relate to a story makes remembering information easier, too, as the content becomes meaningful to the reader.

Games-based Learning

A games-based approach makes learning fun and actively draws children into the content.

Accessible

The platform is accessible from any device with a web browser, so children can log in from anywhere, and can choose to work from a comfy space if this makes learning easier for them.marking time.

What Students Love About Wingaru Kids

Exciting and Engaging

Individual Account

Individual accounts for each student allows children to feel confident exploring the content at their own pace.

Variety of topic areas

The platform has an incredible variety of topic areas, including history, art, language, culture, notable people and more, which means there is something to appeal to every child and project.

Storytelling

Games-based Learning

A games-based approach makes learning fun and actively draws children into the content.

Accessible

The platform is accessible from any device with a web browser, so children can log in from anywhere, and can choose to work from a comfy space if this makes learning easier for them.marking time.

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What Teachers Say about Wingaru Kids…

“The resources on Wingaru Kids are brilliant! It is quick and simple to use and makes including Aboriginal perspectives in our classroom very easy.”

Ashwyn – Cartwright Public School

“We all need to acknowledge the Traditional Peoples of this land and it is essential as an educator to incorporate Aboriginal perspectives into my lessons. This is our history and as Australians we should all embrace our culture and history.”

Sonia – Tempe Public School

“The Teacher Centre is so easy to navigate, and I love that the lessons meet outcomes from so many key learning areas. It’s certainly going to make life easier.”

Amelia – Stage 2 Teacher

"One of the other things I love about Wingaru Education is that all their lesson content and resources are created by First Nations contributors and come with a huge range of background information notes and links to other resources to support my knowledge and understanding as an educator and non-Indigenous Australian."

Aaron Johnston - Assistant Principal

"Our students thoroughly enjoyed using the Wingaru platform to support learning about Indigenous culture in 2020. It was so helpful being able to access up-to-date, relevant and important information. The work Wingaru do is so important and has a real impact in how the Indigenous students we work with connect to school and learning because they understand we value them and their culture every day."

Sarah - Aboriginal Education Teacher

“Amazing! looking forward to having Aboriginal content in one place. It will make teaching Aboriginal perspectives a lot easier.”

Talara - Aboriginal Education and Engagement Officer, Department of NSW Education

“The Teacher Centre is so easy to navigate, and I love that the lessons meet outcomes from so many Key Learning Areas. It's certainly going to make life easier.”

Loraine - School Community Liaison

“Great product! This would be great to have at my school.”

Kirsty - Teacher and Aboriginal Education Consultative Group Member

“Looks fabulous! I really like that it promotes individual paced learning.”

Penny - Teacher and Aboriginal Education Consultative Group Member

“Excellent concept. It is very user friendly and kids are going to love it.”

Judith - Coffs Harbour Local Aboriginal Education Consultative Group

“There is so much variety, It caters to all learning styles and abilities."

Lorraine - Stage 1 Teacher

"This resource makes including Indigenous perspectives so much easier. It is designed for busy teachers. There is a lot of content that suits what I am covering - thank you."

Louise - Stage 2 Teacher

"WOW! I'm beyond grateful for this amazing opportunity to engage in this resource."

Julie - Teacher

"We did our first lesson today and the kids really enjoyed the content we discussed in the Captain Cook lesson."

Aaron - Teacher

"Wingaru Kids is one of the best online resources I have used in many years."

Paul Kelly - Assistant Principal, Harbord Public School

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Acknowledgment

Wingaru Education acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to them and their cultures, to the Elders past, present, and emerging.

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