SBS Learn shares the Year of the Snake with classrooms this Lunar New Year – SBS Learn is entering the Lunar New Year with a curriculum-aligned teacher resource, highlighting the Year of the Snake and including a range of engaging activities catered for primary and secondary students in classrooms Australia-wide.
Lunar New Year is one of the largest multicultural celebrations in Australia and observed by two billion people across the globe. SBS Learn helps spread the joy to classrooms with icebreakers, guiding questions for deep discussion, and an exciting new video resource, teaching students how to make snake-inspired fans withSBS Korean Executive Producer, Leah Hyein Na.
SBS Learn’s Education Lead, Emily Yong said,
“Lunar New Year is the most significant celebration of the year for many communities in Australia and SBS Learn is proud to make this cultural celebration more accessible to all Australian students.
“Sharing cultural knowledge helps students better understand each other and their neighbours and SBS Learn is ideally positioned to do this important work.”
This year’s resource provides a range of activities for students, giving the opportunity to learn more about the Year of the Snake and join Lunar New Year festivities. The activities included in this year’s resource can be used as standalone tasks and will help teachers and students to better understand some of the traditions observed by multicultural and multilingual communities that live in Australia. The SBS Learn resource enables teachers to share the celebrations of Lunar New Year with classrooms from Foundation to Year 8 and is available to download for free from the SBS Learn website.
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SBS Learn shares the Year of the Snake with classrooms this Lunar New Year
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