Caring for Country and Places (Kindergarten)
Free printable HASS worksheet for Kindergarten on how people, including First Nations Australians, care for places: true/false facts about caring for Country plus matching everyday caring actions to what they help.
Kindergarten · Social Studies worksheet
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Social Studies
Caring for Country and Places
Circle True or False, then match each caring action to what it helps. Talk about it (not marked): choose one place you love and say one way your class could help care for it.
- 1.True or False: Only one single group of people is allowed to look after special places.
- a) True
- b) False
- 2.True or False: Caring for Country only happened in the past and nobody does it now.
- a) True
- b) False
- 3.True or False: Places never change at all, so nobody needs to look after them.
- a) True
- b) False
- 4.True or False: First Nations peoples have cared for Country for tens of thousands of years.
- a) True
- b) False
- 5.Match: Listening to Elders talk about a place
- a) shows respect for the people of that Country
- b) leaves more water in the rivers and dams
- c) helps you learn how to care for that place
- d) protects the plants growing beside the track
- 6.Match: Saving water at home and at school
- a) shows respect for the people of that Country
- b) leaves more water in the rivers and dams
- c) helps you learn how to care for that place
- d) protects the plants growing beside the track
- 7.Match: Learning the First Nations name of a local place
- a) shows respect for the people of that Country
- b) leaves more water in the rivers and dams
- c) helps you learn how to care for that place
- d) protects the plants growing beside the track
- 8.Match: Staying on the walking track in the bush
- a) shows respect for the people of that Country
- b) leaves more water in the rivers and dams
- c) helps you learn how to care for that place
- d) protects the plants growing beside the track
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Accuracy and sources
These references support the historical wording and answer key on this worksheet.
- AIATSIS - Welcome to Country — defines Country as the lands, waterways and seas peoples are connected to, carrying law, language, family and identity, and states that only Traditional Owners can welcome visitors to Country or authorise others to do so, while anyone can acknowledge Country
- Reconciliation Australia - Acknowledgement of Country and Welcome to Country — documents that a Welcome to Country is delivered by Traditional Owners (or people they have given permission) and can include a speech, singing, dancing or a smoking ceremony, while an Acknowledgement of Country can be offered by any person
- ACARA - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures cross-curriculum priority — the curriculum priority these worksheets serve; the paired term Country/Place and the phrase First Nations Australians follow ACARA's own usage