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Lesson 7

This 45-minute lesson introduces Year 1 students to kinship as an important part of relationships and family structures in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies. Students will participate in a discussion about different family structures between cultures. They will then watch a YouTube video about kinship in an Indigenous community and take notes on a research sheet. Key terms like kin, kinship, mother, father, brother, sister, cousin, uncle, and auntie will be discussed. The lesson aims to help students understand that kinship can influence how people relate to and behave towards each other in some cultures.

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Lesson 7

This 45-minute lesson introduces Year 1 students to kinship as an important part of relationships and family structures in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies. Students will participate in a discussion about different family structures between cultures. They will then watch a YouTube video about kinship in an Indigenous community and take notes on a research sheet. Key terms like kin, kinship, mother, father, brother, sister, cousin, uncle, and auntie will be discussed. The lesson aims to help students understand that kinship can influence how people relate to and behave towards each other in some cultures.

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Going Further

LEARNING AREA: History LESSON TOPIC: Kinship


YEAR LEVEL: 1

LENGTH of LESSON: 45 minutes

CURRICULUM LINKS
History
ACHHK030 Differences and similarities between students' daily lives and life during their parents
and grandparents childhoods, including family traditions, leisure time and communications
Discussing kinship as an important part of relationships and family structures in Aboriginal
and Torres Straight Islander societies (for example the extent of a kinship system and the
way in which it influences people's relationships, obligations and behaviour towards each
other
English
ACELY1655 Respond to texts from a range of cultural and experiences
Using writing to depict and comment on people and places beyond their immediate
experience
LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of this lesson students will

Comment on family structures from an Indigenous perspective

LESSON OBJECTIVES
During this lesson students will
1. Participate in discussions about family structures from different cultures
2. Engage with multimodal resources to further their thinking concepts
3. Complete a small writing task to confirm their understandings
INQUIRY QUESTION FOR LESSON

Do different cultures have different family structures?

STUDENTS PRIOR KNOWLEDGE


Family structures
Knowledge on communities, and meanings within different cultures
PREPARATION:
Resources
Computer and interactive white board
Research sheet
Classroom Organisation
Students to gather on floor for beginning classroom discussion
Students to return to individual desks
LESSON PROCEDURE

Motivation (Orientating Phase) 10 minutes


Gather students to the floor
Introduce lesson for today:
Today we are looking at family structure, through a different cultures perspective.

Discussion with class, if any children know of any terms of family structures that different
cultures use. As children make suggestions, elaborate, support and prompt students
thinking
Recap on previous lessons, on family structure from the past and present, getting students
to think back on what has been learnt on families from the past, present and how they
differed or remained the same.
Prompt students to use key vocabulary from previous lessons on family structure i.e.
nuclear, single parent, blended
Engage students into todays topic KINSHIP (if this term has not been bought up in
previous discussion, teacher to prompt and guide students thinking)
Kin is another word that some cultures use for family. Kinship is the relationship between
family members. Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles and aunties are all an
example of kinship.

Children are guided by teacher to return to desks:


Procedure (Enhancing Phase) 20-30 minutes
Once children are settled back to their seats, teacher to introduce YouTube clip, and explain
we will be looking at the term kinship and what it means within an Indigenous community
Teacher to hand out research sheet which students will be using to focus their learning
during the clip.
Teacher to explain points within sheet, and prompt children to listen for keys terms, that
have been discussed or that they have heard during the whole unit
Teacher to instruct students that as a class we will be watching the clip first, without writing
anything down
Teacher to play clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNtPcW4t1PY
Encourage children before playing clip for a second time:
What were some words we heard in the clip?
What was one of the big things about family we heard?
What can some one of our family be called?
Did the clip tell us anything about how people live?
Who can be included in a family within an Indigenous community?
Did you hear any words you call your family members?

Teacher to play clip for second time, encouraging children to listen and respond and write
down any words or sentences they hear
Once clip is complete, if needed, continue to further discussions and play clip, pausing if
children have questions or requests

Conclusion (Synthesising Phase) 5 minutes


Engage students in discussion of new vocabulary word of kinship, and add to word wall
Remind students to still be engaging within their interviews and to keep in mind what we
have looked at within the clip, and if the word KINSHIP relates to their interviewee

DIFFERENTIATION OF LEARNING
Have students who require extra attention or may disrupt the class sitting close to teacher
during YouTube clip
Allow students with physical ailments to sit on chairs during group time if required
Encourage all students to be engaged in class discussions and scaffold this
ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING/LESSON OBJECTIVES
1. Assessment for learning: Teacher to gather students research sheets to engage with
how successful students comprehension of the lesson. Teachers to use this information to
decipher whether further lessons need to be organised to further childrens learning

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