Delivering a unique collaboration with the two oldest living cultures in the world, participants are taken on a journey through poetry, Aboriginal Culture, Chinese Culture, Visual Arts, and Mandarin language. Can you find a poem written in English from Asia and compare the unique characteristics of both cultural interpretations?
Included in the program
1
English Version Flip Book
1
Mandarin Version Digital Story
1
Artist Diary
5
Videos
Videos of China, Beijing
Poetry activities
Visual Art activities
Opportunities to explore Australian landscapes
This program is best for
Foundation to Year 12
The digital book provides opportunities to connect to the poem through Mandarin language, translated by Mr. Wang Dapeng and dubbed by Ms. Wang Mingming. The digital flip book is written in English and is an engaging resource for a smart screen. The program engages students in poetry with a new process that uses art as a tool to understand two languages. Take students on a journey of cross-cultural priorities and learn about the two oldest living cultures in the world.
This program is aligned with the Australian Curriculum
Asia and Australia's Engagement with Asia - Knowing Asia and its diversity AAK1 People of the Asia region are diverse in backgrounds, experiences, stories, religions, beliefs and perspectives.
| Strand | Sub-strand | Code | Content descriptions |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANGUAGES | Chinese | AC9LCF03 | explore connections between language and culture |
| Strand | Sub-strand | Code | Content descriptions |
|---|---|---|---|
| ENGLISH | Language | AC9E1LE04 | listen to and discuss poems, chants, rhymes and songs, and imitate and invent sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme |
| Strand | Sub-strand | Code | Content descriptions |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANGUAGES | Chinese | AC9LC2U02 | recognise that Chinese components and/or characters are used to construct meaning in texts |
| Strand | Sub-strand | Code | Content descriptions |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANGUAGES | Chinese | AC9LC4U03 | recognise familiar Chinese language features and compare with those of English, in known contexts |
| Strand | Sub-strand | Code | Content descriptions |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANGUAGES | Chinese | AC9LC6U04 | recognise that language reflects cultural practices, values and identity, and that this impacts on non-verbal and verbal communication |
| Strand | Sub-strand | Code | Content descriptions |
|---|---|---|---|
| ENGLISH | Language | AC9E7LE05 | identify and explain the ways that characters, settings and events combine to create meaning in narratives |
| THE ARTS | Ideas | AC9AVA8E01 | investigate ways that visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials are manipulated to represent ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in artworks created across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts |
| Strand | Sub-strand | Code | Content descriptions |
|---|---|---|---|
| THE ARTS | Ideas | AC9AVA8E01 | exploring the ways that artists are inspired and influenced by the practice of artists from other countries or cultures they have relationships with; for example, the reciprocal influence and impact between Australian and Asian artists and their practices |
| Strand | Sub-strand | Code | Content descriptions |
|---|---|---|---|
| THE ARTS | Ideas | AC9AVA10D02 | reflect on the way they and other visual artists respond to influences to inspire, develop and resolve choices they make in their own visual arts practice |
| Strand | Sub-strand | Code | Content descriptions |
|---|---|---|---|
| THE ARTS | Ideas | AC9AVA10D02 | investigating a diverse range of visual artists; for example, artists who live and work in a different place, such as a country in the Asia region, and reflecting on accounts of them discussing influences on their work and practices, in order to develop an understanding of the many factors that can shape their own visual arts practice |
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What's included:
Video of book in Mandarin LanguageThe eLearn platform provides teachers with engaging resources to view on smart screens
Digital Cultural Story
The digital Cultural story- provides a short poem with landscape artworks to engage students with 2 Countries
$$60.00
