1. What Happened Long Ago?
Year 1 History / Even Year

2. Lesson Overview
Learning Objective
Students will identify the types of questions that can be asked to get the most information.
Prior Knowledge
Students can draw on their knowledge of oral history stories gained within the foundation unit.
Resources Required
Teacher Resource 26.1
Teacher Dialogue Resource
Special Instructions
This lesson prepares the students for the following activity where they will interview an Elder to find out about their life in the past.
It is important to plan and approach this lesson with sensitivity. When guiding students to create questions, they must be presented in way that does not bring back sad memories.
The questions included within this lesson are only examples.
In the independent practice, students have the opportunity to practice conducting an interview. This should be modelled by the teacher and student first to show how to make the interviewee comfortable and how the questions should be asked.
Possible Ancestral Language Connection (ALC) Links
A community member should assist in writing questions during this lesson. Providing ideas about what to ask questions about and what information about the past to elicit would be invaluable to both the teacher and students. AL staff should support opportunities for ancestral language to be incorporated into the questions students develop.
Vocabulary
knowledge
Room Resource 26.1

3. Word Wall
knowledge – information that a person knows

4. Activating Prior Knowledge
Learning Objective
We will identify the types of questions to ask that provide the most information.
Activating Prior Knowledge
What would you do?
You can’t remember the new girl’s name.
Should you –
ignore her
wait until she tells you
ask her what her name is
You have lost your book that you need to write in.
Should you –
wander around doing nothing
take someone else’s
ask your teacher to help you
Asking questions helps people solve problems, find things, learn new information and work things out. Knowing when and how to ask questions is really important.

5. Concept Development
Asking certain questions helps us to learn new information.
Why do I need to eat these?
Where are we going today?
How do you make that?
Who is that person?
Why do we need to learn about this?
How do we get there?
Vocabulary
what you know 5

6. Concept Development Do you like school?
Asking certain questions helps us to learn new information.
Refer to Teacher Dialogue
Do you like school?
Do you play football at lunchtime?
Do you like fishing at the beach or on a boat?
Yes.
Yes.
The beach 6

7. What do you like to do at lunchtime? Where do you like to go fishing?
Concept Development
Asking certain questions helps us to learn new information.
Why do you like school?
What do you like to do at lunchtime?
I get to see my friends and I love learning new things. We are learning about the past.
Where do you like to go fishing?
I love to play football and soccer. We also play marbles and sometimes we draw.
The beach is a great place to fish especially in the open water. The creek near my house is great for eels too. 7

8. 1. Topic Transport in the Past
Concept Development
Asking certain questions helps us to learn new information.
Choose a topic that we want to find information about.
Write some questions that we could ask to find out this information.
Check that the questions are open ended and will allow the person to give lots of detail.
Who needed to travel to other places?
1. Topic Transport in the Past
What did people do to travel long distances?
How did you move from place to place?
When did cars begin to be used?
Why did people move around from place to place?
Where did people travel to? 8

9. Guided Practice
Asking certain questions helps us to learn new information.
Choose a topic that we want to find information about.
Write some questions that we could ask to find out this information.
Check that the questions are open ended and will allow the person to give lots of detail.
Food in the past
How?
What?
Who? 9

10. Guided Practice
Asking certain questions helps us to learn new information.
Decide on the topic that we want to find information about.
Write some questions that we could ask to find out this information.
Check that the questions are open ended and will allow the person to give lots of detail.
How was food prepared when you were growing up?
Who hunted or collected the food that was eaten when you were growing up?
What are some foods that were eaten when you were growing up? 10

11. Activities and games in the past
Guided Practice
Asking certain questions helps us to learn new information.
Choose the topic that we want to find information about.
Write some questions that we could ask to find out this information.
Check that the questions are open ended and will allow the person to give lots of detail.
Activities and games in the past
How?
What?
Who? 11

12. Guided Practice
Asking certain questions helps us to learn new information.
Choose a topic that we want to find information about.
Write some questions that we could ask to find out this information.
Check that the questions are open ended and will allow the person to give lots of detail.
How much time did you spend playing games?
Who taught you how to do things such as fish or weave?
What types of activities or jobs did you have to do to help out when you were growing up? 12

13. Arts and crafts in the past
Guided Practice
Asking certain questions helps us to learn new information.
Decide on the topic that we want to find information about.
Write some questions that we could ask to find out this information.
Check that the questions are open ended and will allow the person to give lots of detail.
Arts and crafts in the past
How?
What?
Who? 13

14. Guided Practice
Asking certain questions helps us to learn new information.
Decide on the topic that we want to find information about.
Write some questions that we could ask to find out this information.
Check that the questions are open ended and will allow the person to give lots of detail.
How did people make hunting tools?
Who painted their bodies and why did they do this?
What types of things did you see being made when you were growing up? 14

15. Relevance Asking certain questions helps us to learn new information.
It is important to know the different types of questions that can be asked when trying to find out new information. When preparing to interview someone, it is important to have the questions written so you can try and find out the information that you need.
Asking questions helps us to learn new information so that we can keep building on our knowledge. Knowing about Aboriginal life in the past is important so that we can understand how things have changed.
Yes.
Yes.
The beach 15

16. Activities and games in the past Arts and crafts in the past
Closure
Asking certain questions helps us to learn new information.
How was food prepared when you were growing up?
What games did you play when you were growing up?
What are some foods that were eaten when you were growing up?
How did people make hunting tools?
I will draw a picture on the board. You will put a tick or a cross on your whiteboard to tell me whether it is a family or not a family
Here is a picture of a mum and her two children (use stick figures). Is this a family? Show me on your whiteboard and chin-it.
Here is a picture of a teddy bear. Is this a family? Show me on your whiteboard and chin-it.
Here is a picture of a dad, his brother, his sister, his cousin and his child (use stick figures) Is this a family? Show me on your whiteboard and chin-it.
What types of things did you see being made when you were growing up?
Who taught you how to do things such as fish or weave?
Why did people paint their bodies at different times?
Who hunted or collected the food that was eaten when you were growing up?
Food in the past
Activities and games in the past
Arts and crafts in the past 16

17. Independent Practice
Asking certain questions helps us to learn new information.
Conducting an Interview
1. Make sure that the person you are interviewing is seated comfortably and offer them a glass of water.
2. Ask the person if it is ok if the interview is recorded so that it can be watched later.
3. Tell the person that if a question is asked that they would rather not answer, they just need to say “I’d rather not answer that question”.
4. Ask the questions in a clear voice that is loud enough for the person to hear easily.
5. When the interview is finished, thank the person for their time and for sharing their information. 17