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BARMAH FOREST

Field Trip Workbook

Year 7 Geography and History

USES OF BARMAH’S RIVERS AND LAKES

1. What were the uses of the river and lakes by the local Aboriginal peoples?

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2. What did the local Aboriginal peoples use the area around the river and lakes for?

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3. What are the uses of the rivers and lakes? Categorise these as either current or traditional uses of the river. Put uses that are both current and traditional into the middle of the diagram.

CURRENTTRADITIONAL

4. Sit down in your own area. Be quiet and still.

SEE What can you see?

SMELL What can you smell?

HEAR What can you hear?

5. Imagine you were transported back in time 200 years. What do you think you would see, smell and hear?

SEE What can you see?

SMELL What can you smell?

HEAR What can you hear?

MIDDENS

a. Draw a midden.

b. What is a midden made up of?

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c. What was it used for?

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d. Name something similar we use today.

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e. How old is the midden? How do we know this?

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f. What is being done to protect the midden?

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FORMATION OF THE MURRAY RIVER

7. Geographical explanation

We have learnt about the Cadell Tilt in class time. Draw a diagram of the land that shows how it moved.

8. Dreamtime Story

What is the Dreamtime story that explains the formation of the Murray River?

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9. Comparing the Cadell Tilt with the Dreamtime Story.

How are they similar? How are they different?

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ANCIENT ARTEFACTS

Draw the ancient remains you saw today

a. How are ancient remains cared for? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

b. Why is it so important to take care of them? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

10. Look at this picture.

a. What does this picture show? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

b. How is man and nature connected in this picture? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

DREAMTIME STORY

Use the image to remind you of of the story of how the Murray River was made.

This story was handed down for 30,000 years. How would you explain the story to your parents?

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CULTURAL PRACTICES

1. What different cultural practices of the local Aboriginal peoples took place in this area?

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2. Why was this area such an active one for cultural practices?

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3. What evidence remains of these cultural practices?

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4. What conflicts are known to have occurred in the area between Aboriginal groups? What were these over?

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REFLECTION

1. What did you find interesting about the excursion?

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2. What would you like to learn more about?

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3. How could we improve the excursion?

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