ABORIGINAL EDUCATION RESOURCES
Curriculum Aligned • Lesson Plans • Videos • Worksheets • Digital Activities • Classroom Resources
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
WINGARU KIDS FOR SCHOOLS
We Provide Everything You Need to Teach Aboriginal Perspectives with Confidence
Each Lesson includes:
MarkBook
Video
Digital Activities
Printable Activities
Curriculum-Aligned
Outcomes
Curriculum-Aligned
Lesson Plan
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.
Appreciate the mistreatment of Aboriginal People since colonisation and how this has led to intergenerational trauma.
Be able to challenge the often-biased media coverage of First Nations People.
Promote a shared understanding, recognition, respect and reconciliation for future generations.
Discover the physical and chemical sciences used by Aboriginal People in their everyday lives.
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 hereComprehensive 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
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.
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
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.
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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 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