Stories of Place

Guiding Question

What stories does this place hold and why do they matter?

Learning Focus

• place is storied and relational

• local Indigenous place names

• land as living relation (not backdrop or resource)

• listening to community knowledge systems

• People and places shape one another.

Activities & Experiences

• place name learning (with care and appropriate guidance)

• story mapping (oral + visual)

• comparing ways of describing place (Western mapping vs relational naming)

• explore and map favourite places

• consider family connections to places

• dramatic play