INDIGENOUS CALENDAR ANALYSIS

Describe Weathers Importance What biome is this

What patterns can you What do you notice Why do you think it area most similar to?
identify? about the difference in was important for this
seasons? How are area to have these
A pattern may be a they the same/different different seasons?
group of similar to “traditional’
features on a diagram, seasons?
a concentration of a
particular colour or
feature on a map.

Calendar 1: e.g. e.g. Yirrgandji has both e.g. I think it was This area is most
Yirrgandji has 5 wet and dry seasons. important to break up similar to a ____
(e.g. Yirrganydji) seasons, each of which The wet season seems this area into wet and biome. This is due to ...
with specific weather to be made up of dry because it helped
conditions. mostly hot, humid with farming or hunting.
conditions. The wet season would
Approximately 50% of have been a better
the year is ‘cyclone’ This is different to time to farm due to the
and ‘storm’ time “traditional” seasons rain. Also breaking into
(November – May), where we have 4. I minor seasons, helps
with the other 50% think it is different know when cyclones
making up the ‘dry because in will come and so not to
season’ (May – Queensland it always plant during these
November). warm, but it only times.
changes when it rains.

Calendar 2: Kaurna has 4 seasons, Kaurna has both wet

each of which with and dry seasons. The
Kaurna specific weather wet seasons seems to
conditions. be made up of hot,
humid conditions.
Approximately 50% of
the year is wet and the
other 50% is summer.
October to March is
Summer/Spring. April
to September is
Winter/Autumn.

Calendar 3:
Seasons of the
Wurundjeri Country or
Buralong Country.