Queensland students unearth the secrets of their ancestral totems

Sarah Duggan

By Sarah Duggan
Published July 6, 2016

As the young artists at Mornington Island State School will attest, from little things big things really do grow.

For what started as a small-scale badge making project for the remote Queensland students, has snowballed into a culturally enriching ...

This story appeared in the July 2016 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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