Rights and Freedoms - Animation
History Stage 5

Rationale

There's a pressing need for educational resources that include the voices of Aboriginal Peoples and Survivors of the Stolen Generations. These perspectives are integral for a comprehensive and authentic understanding of Australia's history, and are crucial to respect for principles of self-determination and representation.

Kinchela Boys Home has therefore developed a series of Aboriginal-led Syllabus Packages and Lesson Plans to assist teachers in delivering nuanced and culturally-informed content across the History, English and Aboriginal Studies curricula, that seek to foster empathy, truth telling, healing and active reconciliation.

About this Resource

Covering Content and Outcomes HT5-2, HT5-3, HT5-6, HT5-8, HT5-9, HT5-10 and ACDSEH104 of the History Stage 5 Syllabus, this resource asks students to watch "We Were Just Little Boys", an animated film about the experiences of those who went through Kinchela Boys Home, narrated by KBH survivors and illustrated by Uncle Richard Campbell, #28. Providing a 10-page activity booklet that prompts students to interpret the experiences and perspectives represented in the film, the resource cultivates crucial inferential historical reasoning and close primary source analysis skills. 

The lesson plan contains:

• 1 PDF for teachers
• 1 PDF for students

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By purchasing this syllabus you are helping us to continue our work: supporting Survivors and their Descendants and Families; advocating for change and social justice; and educating Australians about the horrors of the Stolen Generations, so we can ensure these mistakes are never made again.