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Symbols, emblems and icons –
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Facilitated Day Program
Years: Grade 3 - 7
Students: 60 students
Duration: 1 hour
2012 cost: $5.00 per student (minimum group cost $75.00)
2013 cost: $5.50 per student (minimum group cost $77.00)
Teacher / student ratio: 1:15
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Discover Australia’s floral emblems and icons
Explore the plants that are the official and unofficial symbols of Australia
Connect the symbolic use of Australian plants in our Society
What is your state emblem and how did you get it? Is a warratah a football team, a place or a plant?
Discover the connections been plants, people and culture while exploring Australia’s iconic emblems and symbols.
Resources
Download: Floral emblems of Australia education kit (PDF - 595 KB)
The Australian Curriculum – History Links
We remember: The significance of selected symbols and emblems that are important to communities, cultures or groups, states and territories
We remember: Reasons for particular days and weeks being marked as celebrations, or as commemorations of events of national significance
We remember: The meaning and significance of emblems and symbols of the nation
First Australians: The significance of the Dreaming and the perspectives and meaning in Dreaming stories
Early contacts: Examine the influence of navigators and explorers charting the Australian continent and other parts of the world up to the early nineteenth century