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Tony Clarke

Mother 👅Tongue series : A taste of Noongar language

Grades: 7th Grade, 6th Grade, 5th Grade
Subjects: World Languages, Social Studies, Computer Science

Student Instructions

👨🏾‍🎓Learning Focus: To acknowledge Noongar Culture and Language and research traditional medicine and food practices. Larry Blight is a Menang Noongar man, and a lecturer in conservation and land management at the Great Southern Institute of Technology. In this video Larry takes us on a tour of the old Kalgan Hall site, the oldest site on Western Australia's south coast. Larry has very strong connections to country here. He shows us different types of bush foods and medicine plants used by the local Menang people, and shares with us their Noongar names. Go to the 🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldYkD2JKouA&list=PLmWe-V9tacwHqIfIBPvZMThlaYH6gH2u0&index=4 Watch 👀 the short film then tap👉 on check response and select your name. The response pages 📑have a variety of tasks and questions. You may need to review the film again to answer some of the questions. Then you will be asked to further research information and facts about Noongar culture and language. I have provides a PDF on page 2 of Bush Tucker Fact Sheets. Feel free to do further research on other sites. Use as many of the Seesaw reflections tools as you require. When complete check or draft your response.

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Larry Blight is a Menang Noongar man, and a lecturer in conservation and land management at the Great Southern Institute of Technology. In this video Larry takes us on a tour of the old Kalgan Hall site, the oldest site on Western Australia's south coast. Larry has very strong connections to country here. He shows us different types of bush foods and medicine plants used by the local Menang people, and shares with us their Noongar names.Thanks to Larry Blight and students from the Great Southern Institute of Technology. Photos by Suzannah Lyons and Karla Arnall. Video produced by Suzannah Lyons. This video was originally contributed to the ABC Open Mother Tongue project, which invited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to share a story about their mother tongue.

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