INTRODUCTION: The principal is looking for students to come up

with Indigenous dreamtime stories that talk
about the culture and heritage. Particularly,
they are looking for students who can come up
with dreamtime stories that talk and explain
about the six Noongar seasons and how their
characteristics are similar to our normal
seasons. These stories will be presented to the
whole school on NAIDOC day plus presented to
the local Indigenous communities around the
school.
BRIEF: Your role is to explore the Indigenous seasons
using sensory tables as well as comparing the
normal seasons to the Indigenous in order to
design and create a dreamtime story.
GENERATING DESIGNS: You will need to create a storyboard using
different objects such as wild plants/flowers
and pictures of different Australian animals.
These objects are placed in different six sensory
tables (each table represents a Noongar
season).
PROJECT SPECIFICATIONS: You will be drawing and writing out your
storyboard on an A3 storyboard template. At
each sensory table, you are to pick up the
pictures as well as the wild plants to observe
the different environments. While observing
these objects, you can either draw what is on
the table onto your storyboard or you can write
down ideas of what you may think happens
during that particular season. You will be
rotating to each six seasons to compare the
seasons and create an idea of what your
dreamtime story may entail.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Lesson 1 – Watching time-lapse videos of the
different four seasons and the students are to
paint their own version of what each season
looks like based on landscape and sky.
Lesson 2 – Exploring and introducing the
different Noongar seasons using sensory tables
to begin creating a storyboard that will help the
students begin to create their dreamtime story.
Lesson 3 – Using playdough to create the
student’s experience on the Noongar seasons
from the previous lesson and begin designing a
word wall that incorporates the Indigenous
language.
Lesson 4 – Students will be going around the
school using their five senses to experience and
elaborate the season that they are currently
 living in (in this case Autumn). They are to come
up with ideas and opinions on the
characteristics of Autumn and compare it to the
season beforehand (which is Summer).
Lesson 5 – This is where the students will be
begin creating their dreamtime story. Their
stories are based on their experience and what
they learnt about the Indigenous seasons.
Using their storyboards, worksheets and
paintings they have done beforehand, students
can begin to imagine and design what they
would like to write about in their story. An
example of a dreamtime story will be shown.

EVALUATION: The teacher will be given a checklist that is

based on the students’ experience and
knowledge of the Noongar seasons during the
sensory table lesson. The checklist involves
recalling their knowledge and explaining their
experience on the different Noongar seasons.
This will help the teacher determine and decide
which students will have clear idea on
designing their dreamtime story and which
students may struggle.

Also, at the end of the project, the students will

complete an exit ticket to finish off their
presentation. The emotions, which each
student will need to circle, are:
 Confused
 Full of questions
 I’ve got it
It also allows the students to write down at
least one fact about the Noongar seasons.
PRESENTATION: Students are to use the play dough that is in the
classroom to model and create their memory of
the Noongar seasons. They can be small models
or big size models; however, they must
represent what they experienced during the
sensory table. The students are able to use
their storyboard if they do struggle to
remember.

These will be then used to allow the students to

present their experience plus their knowledge
of the Noongar seasons to the whole class. This
will help them create more of an understanding
of those seasons as they are listening to their
peers’ thoughts and knowledge.
TIME: The project will have 5 lessons and each of
those lessons will be an hour long.