Here are some answers to check yours against.
1. Here are five observations explained in the Aboriginal story.
· New baby girls and boys are made.
· The moon is in the sky.
· The moon is not usually seen when the sun is in the sky.
· The moon appears to change its shape.
· There can seem to be a tree on the surface of the moon. (You may be more used to seeing a face than a tree!)
2. I don't think that the storytellers thought like biologists.
The storytellers describe the moon using characteristics that biologists use for living things, but biologists would say that the moon is non-living. A biologist would not say that the moon could make babies, talk, eat or climb a tree to catch grubs
because these are things that living things may do.
The storytellers have a different way to look at the world.
They do not sort living and non-living things like a biologist. |
