Managing Country Year level Year 7 – 9 Duration 120 minutes Cost $240 per group (up to 32 students) Audience Secondary Aboriginal peoples intentionally manage Country to allow for regrowth and replenishment. Complex systems of understanding and listening to Country inform processes of securing food sources, shelter and caring for lands in the long term. Structures such as fish traps and processes like ‘fire stick farming’ are highly engineered and challenge colonial perceptions of Aboriginal ways of life. Students explore the multifaceted way Aboriginal peoples engineer on Country, exploring case studies and stories in our collection. Register Your Interest Student experience Students will: Explore case studies and examples of managing country across multiple Museum galleries Use evidence to discuss and debate during a facilitated yarning circle in the Ngalang Koort Boodja Wirn gallery Skills development This program links to the following strands of the Western Australian Curriculum: Year 7 Geography The factors that influence the decisions people make about where to live and their perceptions of the liveability of places (ACHGK043) HASS Skills Reflect on learning to review original understandings and/or determine actions in response to events, challenges, developments, issues, problems and/or phenomena (WAHASS78) Year 8 Geography The spiritual, cultural and aesthetic value of landscapes and landforms for people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (ACHGK049) HASS Skills Reflect on learning to review original understandings and/or determine actions in response to events, challenges, developments, issues, problems and/or phenomena (WAHASS78) Year 9 Geography The perceptions people have of place, and how this influences their connections to difeerent places (ACHGK065) HASS Skills Compare evidence to substantiate judgements (e.g. use information and/or data from different places or times; use tables, graphs, models, theories) (WAHASS95) (Year 9) Register Your Interest