Acknowledgement or Welcome? (Grade 4)
Free printable HASS worksheet for Grade 4. Students classify real scenarios as an Acknowledgement of Country or a Welcome to Country, match protocol terms to their meanings, and answer fixed scenario questions.
Grade 4 · Social Studies worksheet
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Acknowledgement or Welcome?
Sort each scenario, match each term to its meaning, then circle the best answers. Extension (not marked): listen to the next Acknowledgement of Country you hear and notice whose Country is named.
- 1.Which one is this? "Any person, Indigenous or non-Indigenous, can offer it at a meeting."
- a) Welcome to Country
- b) Acknowledgement of Country
- 2.Which one is this? "The Traditional Owners give another person their permission to deliver it for them."
- a) Welcome to Country
- b) Acknowledgement of Country
- 3.Which one is this? "An Elder welcomes visitors onto her people's Country at the start of a festival."
- a) Welcome to Country
- b) Acknowledgement of Country
- 4.Which one is this? "A school captain opens assembly with words of respect for the Traditional Owners."
- a) Welcome to Country
- b) Acknowledgement of Country
- 5.Which one is this? "Only the Traditional Owners of that Country, or people they authorise, can give it."
- a) Welcome to Country
- b) Acknowledgement of Country
- 6.Which one is this? "A visiting speaker who is not a Traditional Owner shows respect with it before speaking."
- a) Welcome to Country
- b) Acknowledgement of Country
- 7.Match: Language group
- a) a group of people who share a traditional language
- b) a welcome onto Country given by its Traditional Owners
- c) words of respect for Traditional Owners that anyone can offer
- d) the lands, waterways and seas a First Nations people is connected to
- e) a respected person their community recognises as a keeper of knowledge
- 8.Match: Country
- a) a group of people who share a traditional language
- b) a welcome onto Country given by its Traditional Owners
- c) words of respect for Traditional Owners that anyone can offer
- d) the lands, waterways and seas a First Nations people is connected to
- e) a respected person their community recognises as a keeper of knowledge
- 9.Match: Elder
- a) a group of people who share a traditional language
- b) a welcome onto Country given by its Traditional Owners
- c) words of respect for Traditional Owners that anyone can offer
- d) the lands, waterways and seas a First Nations people is connected to
- e) a respected person their community recognises as a keeper of knowledge
- 10.Match: Acknowledgement of Country
- a) a group of people who share a traditional language
- b) a welcome onto Country given by its Traditional Owners
- c) words of respect for Traditional Owners that anyone can offer
- d) the lands, waterways and seas a First Nations people is connected to
- e) a respected person their community recognises as a keeper of knowledge
- 11.Match: Welcome to Country
- a) a group of people who share a traditional language
- b) a welcome onto Country given by its Traditional Owners
- c) words of respect for Traditional Owners that anyone can offer
- d) the lands, waterways and seas a First Nations people is connected to
- e) a respected person their community recognises as a keeper of knowledge
- 12.There is no Traditional Owner available at your class's small morning meeting. What can your class still respectfully do?
- a) Offer an Acknowledgement of Country
- b) Deliver a Welcome to Country themselves
- c) Nothing; respect is impossible without a Traditional Owner
- 13.Your school is planning a Welcome to Country for its 50th birthday celebration. Who should the school invite to deliver it?
- a) Any parent who volunteers
- b) The oldest teacher at the school
- c) A Traditional Owner of the local Country, or someone they authorise
- 14.A Welcome to Country welcomes visitors to:
- a) Australia as a whole country
- b) The nearest airport
- c) The Country of the Traditional Owners giving the welcome
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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