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Series 4 Episode 44
EP44 -‐ http://web.ntschools.net/w/NTMS/Pages/Episodes.aspx?pbs=44&pid=4
Fitzroy River Hip Hop cloze Gunbalanya, Film making Pre-‐production, Storyboard Be Crocwise, Pularumpi Colouring, Crocodile facts Comprehension questions Shepherdson College Garden Galiwinku word puzzle Can You Dance? Epenarra Wanganaranku Areyonga Utju, Realtone, Red Dust Bass Beat Warriors Umbakumba
ACTIVITIES TO DO ON YOUR OWN (OR WITH A FRIEND!)
Fitzroy River Hip Hop Fitzroy Crossing is a community in the western Kimberly region of W.A. It is on the Fitzroy River.
Listen carefully to the song and fill in the missing lyrics.
Fitzroy Hip Hop
Put your _____ up, let’s do it now Put your hands up, scudda girls Put your hands up, scudda boys
We’re the scudda girls, from ________ So Shake your ______ and make some noise
Mad for disco ______ at the hall Around the world, drop with a basketball We love going _______ and camping too The boys go hunting for a fat _________ Fitzroy _______, that’s where we go
When the wet season comes, the river will ______ We got goanna, turtle, fresh water croc Sandbar old _________, that’s our spot
Jump off the bed, go for a ______ Go with my _______ and catch some bream
Sideshow bumper car, carnival
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With all my ________ having a ball
We are the Kimberly on the west side
Our spirit is strong and our _______ is alive
Chorus
From the _____ of the mighty Fitzroy River
We stand _____ and free
Our culture will flow on and on, in you and me X2
_________ baby, baby mother
They are connected to ______ other
Baby, mother, mother, baby
Smoking, ________ , you gotta be crazy X2
You gotta eat vegies, you gotta eat fruit
You gotta stay __________ that is the truth
Fishing at the river, fishing at the _______
Me and my boys catch too many fish
We go hunting for ______ tucker food
Too many turkeys, everywhere to shoot
Fitzroy River, _________ and strong
Welcome to my ________ come along come along
Gotta be strong, gotta be smart
Gotta love culture, gotta love art
Flying through the air, like a ________
AFL kids getting on your shoulder
When she’s in the ______ will flood
Fly she’s in, the land too hot
Mums and dads, you gotta be ready
Don’t drink and ________ with a baby in your belly
Chorus
Fitzroy Hip Hop (cont)
One to the two, two to the three Fitzroy king of the Kimberly
We’re champs of every sport that you want to bring
Just bring me the mic -‐microphone-‐ and _________ to me sing
Bunuba, Walmajarri, Wangkatjungka Gooniyandi
All of the languages that we speak
Traditional _________ of this land
Pas their knowledge to the younger clans
Painted on the rocks, __________ in the caves
Telling us the ________ of the olden days
Stars shine bright, showing us the way
Ceremony dance, painted up in clays
River is life, ______ is water
Mother baby son daughter
Sun will set at the end of the day
This __________ country will blow you away
Keep flowing!
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Missing Words! Fishing flow crossing Body hands River Fitzroy family beautiful Owners each land Bridge story swim Listen kangaroo bank Tall smoke life Down healthy mighty Mother culture rain Drinking hidden bush
Shepherdson Garden The students at Shepherdson College on Elcho Island are very lucky to have such a fantastic garden to work in, to care for, and to eat the fresh food from!
The students and their teachers also produce a fantastic blog about what they do in their garden and kitchen. In this they talk about the three ethics that guide them. An ethic is something that they agree on as a guide to living well, in their life as well as their garden and classrooms! The Three Ethics are Earth Care, Fair Share and People Care. This means they care for the; Earth by looking after the soil and making it strong with mulch and compost. People by not teasing, being friendly and kind, and providing for their needs And they give everyone a Fair share by only taking what they need, and sharing it around.
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Earth Share
People Share Fair Share
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Lots of different food comes from the Shepherdson Garden – see if you can find these ones!
Food grown in a garden is always healthy as it is fresh, contains lots of vitamins and is not made in a factory. It doesn’t have added sugar, salt or other chemicals like preservatives.
Can you give an example why it is good to………
Care for the EARTH
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Care for PEOPLE
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Give everyone a FAIR share
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Crocwise
The students at Pularumpi school recorded a great song about being crocwise. VAMPtv went to the school and made the video with the students – what great fun they all had! While this was fun, for people living around water in the Top End, crocodiles are a very serious and real threat.
Go to the Fact sheet -‐ http://lrm.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/7349/crocodile_facts.pdf -‐ on the Parks and wildlife Commission website to answer the following questions. If you can’t go to this website, use the sheet attached at the end of these notes.
1. How large can crocodiles grow?
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2. How long can saltwater crocodiles stay underwater for?
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3. How is it that crocodiles can stay underwater for so long?
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4. Can crocodiles see when they are underwater?
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5. What kind of animal species is the saltwater crocodile?
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6. Why do many crocodiles live in the NT?
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FILM MAKING Film-‐making is a fantastic way of telling stories. The technology to do so at school is affordable and the skills gained include planning, organization, writing, directing (leadership) as well as the technical skills with cameras and computers. If you make a film you might even win a VAMPIE at the end of the year! A useful exercise as part of Pre-‐production for making a film is called story boarding. This breaks the story down into parts and includes diagrams that describe what the film will look like. Here is a sample of the storyboard that Arijay from Gunbalanya made for his short film
He draws the picture to show what the film will look like He writes in the action that takes place He writes what the camera does and the sort of shot.
Teachers: There are many excellent resources available to pursue film-‐making in schools, including one through ourcourses.ntschools.net which the Gunbalanya class utilized. Please contact [email protected] for more info on this course.
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FILM MAKING Make up a simple story and tell it in 6 parts! If you can’t think of anything to make it about, do something simple, like going to the shop, but try and use close ups to make it look more interesting! You can use this method to help you make up any stories!
Storyboard from; www.nothingbeatstherealthing.info/resources
Crocodile facts
The saltwater crocodile is the largest living reptile species. It can grow up to six metres and is a serious threat to humans. Saltwater crocodiles have evolved special characteristics that make them excellent predators.
· Large saltwater crocodiles can stay underwater for at least one hour because they can reduce their heart rate to 2-3 beats per minute. This means that crocodiles can wait underwater until they see prey, or if people are using the same spot regularly, the crocodile can wait underwater until someone approaches the water’s edge.
· A crocodile can float with only eyes and nostrils exposed, enabling it to approach prey without being detected.
· When under water, a special transparent eyelid protects the crocodile’s eye. This means that crocodiles can still see when they are completely submerged.
· The tail of a crocodile is solid muscle and a major source of power, making it a strong swimmer and able to make sudden lunges out of the water to capture prey. These strong muscles also mean that for shorts bursts of time crocodiles can move faster than humans can on land.
· Crocodiles have a thin layer of guanine crystals behind their retina. This intensifies images, allowing crocodiles to see better at low light levels.
· Crocodiles have a ‘minimum exposure’ posture in the water, which means that only their sensory organs of eyes, cranial platform, ears and nostrils remain out of the water. This means that they often go unseen by prey, but if they are observed, the prey is often not able to tell how big the crocodile is.
· Crocodile eyes are located very closely together and they are oriented forward. This enables them to judge distance very accurately so they can determine the exact location of their prey prior to attack.
· Crocodiles have excellent hearing, which helps them to locate prey particularly in poor light or low visibility conditions.
· While crocodiles may regularly lose teeth, they have a second tooth sitting in reserve underneath the external tooth, which can replace the lost tooth.
· The jaws of crocodiles are designed to generate enormous power when the jaws are closing. This enables them to quickly crush prey. ���Why does the Northern Territory have more crocodiles than Queensland or Western Australia? ���A large proportion of the coastal region of the Northern Territory is an ideal habitat for saltwater crocodiles, particularly the big, productive “coastal” wetlands and rivers. Much of the Queensland coastline is in the cooler, more southerly latitudes, which is less optimal habitat for crocodiles. Much of the habitat on the east coast has also been significantly altered and fragmented by human settlement. Western Australia has saltwater crocodile habitat around the Kimberley coastline but this area is not as rich in mangroves and wetlands as the Territory coastline. ���In the southern part of its range, winter temperatures reach a threshold below which crocodile eggs will not hatch and the longer cold periods significantly lower crocodile growth rates. The effect of a cooler climate on crocodiles can be seen in those animals kept in wildlife parks in southern Queensland. The crocodiles do not feed over winter as they cannot absorb enough warmth to digest food.
For further information visit www.nt.gov.au/becrocwise