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• Give each group one line of the song and have them illustrate it to show their understanding of the line.

• Display these across the room• Photograph them and create a

Powerpoint of the song using children’s artworks

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Our home is girt by sea

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• In groups, add instruments (found and body percussion) to describe each line of each verse

• Add different dynamic levels for each line

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MUSICMUSICAustralians, all, let us rejoice,For we are young and free!We’ve golden soil and wealth for toilOur home is girt by sea.Our land abounds with nature’s giftsOf beauty, rich and rare.In history’s page, let every stageAdvance Australia Fair.In joyful strains then let us sing,‘Advance Australia Fair!’

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Drama*Drama*• Look at a variety of visual

representations of the lines from Advance Australia Fair, or use your own artwork.

• In groups, use one line as a stimulus for improvisation, eg. Home is girt by sea

• Think about:– What is happening– Why it is happening– Who is involved– What are they feeling– Why they are acting this way– How the improvisation starts, climaxes and

ends, etc

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DRAMA: DRAMA: Natural/Built Natural/Built Environments*Environments*

• Create a group sculpture depicting an Australian natural scene or built icon.– Have other children guess what

it is.

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MUSICMUSIC: : Brainstorm words, then create a new Brainstorm words, then create a new

verse to reflect our BUILT Environmentsverse to reflect our BUILT Environments

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MUSICMUSIC: : Creating a new Verse Creating a new Verse

to reflect our BUILT Environmentsto reflect our BUILT EnvironmentsWe’ve built our nation brick by brick,

Our buildings stand so fine!

Our bridges, towers and monuments,

Our heritage sublime!

Look east and west and north and south,

O’er landscapes rich or bare,

We’ve made our mark on history’s page,

Advance, Australia Fair!

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MUSICMUSIC::Brainstorming words and pictures Brainstorming words and pictures

for NATURAL Environmentsfor NATURAL Environments

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MUSICMUSIC: : Creating and new Verse to reflect Creating and new Verse to reflect

our NATURAL Environmentsour NATURAL Environments

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MUSIC: Rhythm Rap

about NATURAL Environments

Deserts, farmlands, mountains high,

Rainforest, Uluru, rivers dry,

Waterfalls, billabongs, golden sand,

All together make up this land.

Add OSTINATO: Natural Australia

Add a melody using the notes C, D, E, G A on a xylophone.

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about NATURAL Environments

Deserts, farmlands, mountains high,

Rainforest, Uluru, rivers dry,

Waterfalls, billabongs, golden sand,

All together make up this land.

Add OSTINATO: Natural Australia

Add a melody using the notes C, D, E, G A on a xylophone.

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• After a visit to a rainforest or other natural environment, have children develop a poster about what they have learned; include a scientific description and a poem

• Repeat this activity with a built environment

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DramaDrama• Examine Jeannie

baker’s book: Window – One scene is

depicted through a window, changing over time, shown every 2 years in the child’s life

– Natural environment moving to Built environment

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DramaDrama• Take the Advance Australia Fair scene you

have improvised in the previous lesson, and repeat it as though it was 50 years previously, then 50 years in the future.

• Hot seating: ask individual characters questions about: Who?

What?Where?Why?How? etc.

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Dance*Dance*• Look at a variety of photos of natural and

built environments• In groups, create a series of movements

to show a natural environment using the bodies of each person in the group

• Then move slowly to show the beginning of a built environment until the whole group body sculpture depicts a build environment.

• Repeat these series of movements to percussion instruments or music with a strong beat.

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Drama/ Visual Arts / HSIEDrama/ Visual Arts / HSIE• Extension: Create a puppet play based

on an environmental theme, eg:– Living on the farm / living in the city– Grandparents talking to

grandchildren about the changes they have seen in their neighbourhood, etc.

– Woodchips or forests?– Reduce, recycle, reuse– Shopping Centre or Parkland?– The destruction of the rainforest

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For further information, see Chapter 9 in MMADD: About the Arts: An introduction to Primary Arts Education by Deirdre Russell-Bowie, published by Pearson Education Australia