Aborigines

Introduction

Have you ever wondered what would be like to live in culture that has been around for tens of thousand of years. You are a scientist staying a whole week in Australia to research the culture of the Aborigines. While you are there, you need to survive in their ways. The Aboriginies are a people who hunt and gather they live off of the land and don't wish to develop it. They believe that powerful spirts created the land and it was there job to take care of it. Ancient rock paintings passed down through the Aboriginies revelve much of there history.

Task

Your job is to write a 7 page essay (for each day you are there) on ways to survive for every day you are there. On each day, you need to include how an aborigine gets water, food, shelter, and how they work together as a tribe. You need to enclude what your job would be if you were male or female. 

You can also make the papers fun!

Use these these websites to get information.

http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/society/australian-aborigines.ht…

http://siekman.tripod.com/history.html

Process

 Pretend you are a scientist traveling for a week to Australia researching  the first natives there the Aborigines. You will need to write a page on how you will survive each day. You need to include what your jobs would be in a tribe depending on if you are male or female. You need to include how much water and food you receive a day you need to eat a certain amount of something depending on what it is. You need to have at least two quarts of water a day and you need to include a reasonable amount of time for how long it took you. You CAN NOT use small amounts of time to find things.

Another important thing you need to include is sleep you must have at least 42 hours of sleep a week. The last thing you must do is describe an traditional aborigine dance, or celebration. 

For information 

http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/society/australian-aborigines.html

http://siekman.tripod.com/history.html

Evaluation

This is the rubric you will use to created your project. 

Conclusion

We are very excited to see these papers, have fun! Good luck!!:)

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