Ideas for teachers to use to enliven their local history lessons

1. Using the resources of your local communityHistory is all around you Marion Littlejohn Education Officer, Sovereign Hill Museum HTAA Conference Adelaide 2011

3. What do you think about that?

5. Investigate your local main street What do you see? When were buildings built? What evidence of change can you see?

6. Old buildings have a story to tell LOOK UP! What do you see? When were buildings built? Has their function changed?

7. Have local buildings changed their use? What do you see? What has changed? Why? What has not changed? Ballarat Gaol, 1861 Ballarat SMB, 2011

8. Investigate local signs

9. Use early photos for a “Now & Then” activity Take a photo standing in the same place. What differences can you see? Why have things changed? Do you think the ‘olden days’ were better than today? Why?

10. www.historypin.com/community-schools/

11. Discover and discuss industrial archaeology in your local area

14. What do you think about that?

15. What does it make you wonder?Canoe tree

16. Grampians National Park Brambuk Cultural Centre Rock Art sites

17. National Trust Properties Rippon Lea Estate Elsternwick Como House South Yarra

18. Gulf Station Yarra Glen Use old photos as stimulus for imaginative writing. Imagine you are one of these people and write a diary entry.

19. National Trust of South Australia Old Highercombe Hotel and Folk Museum The hotel, built in 1853, has associations with the early development of transport routes to the hinterland and the early use of the telegraph. The museum features indoor displays of clothing, furniture and early photographs, plus outdoor displays of dairy and agricultural artefacts. Gawler Old Telegraph Station Museum

21. Why were lighthouses necessary?

22. Are they still needed?

24. Gum San Chinese Cultural Centre, Ararat

25. Sovereign Hill Museum, Ballarat

27. Sovereign Hill Education Snapshots: Using Digital Cameras at Sovereign Hill SOVEREIGN HILL EDUCATION NINETEENTH CENTURY MIGRATION TO THE VICTORIAN GOLDFIELDS A RESOURCE KIT FOR UPPER PRIMARY STUDENTS VELS Levels 3 & 4: History, English, The Arts, Interpersonal Development, Personal Learning, Thinking Processes TEDDY’S VISIT TO SOVEREIGN HILL VELS LEVEL 1 www.sovereignhill.com.au/education

29. Local War Memorials

30. Statues of War heroes

31. Local statues & monuments

32. Bronze statues in front of the State Library of Victoria, Saint George slaying the Dragon, 1889 & Jeanne d'Arc (AKA Joan of Arc),1907

33. Ballarat Beaufort Creswick

34. Elder Park Rotunda erected 1882 Photo 2008 W. Hatherell, River Torrens 1887

35. Every community has a local cemetery with stories relevant to your students. Old Ballarat Cemetery

36. Edward Devine (Cabbage Tree Ned) Peerless Driver of Cobb's Mail Coach." James Scobie’s grave Old Ballarat Cemetery Truncated column Draped Urn/symbolism

37. The Billingham Brothers; Jabez and Benjamin Victims of the Creswick Mine disaster 1882 TRAPPED A haunting true story that has lain buried for 120 years. Experience it now at Sovereign Hill Museum.

38. New Cemetery Ballarat: Chinese section

40. If you cannot leave the school all is not lost....

41. History Days

42. Guest Speakers

43. Create your own archaeological dig!

44. Create a classroom museum table

45. USEFUL WEB SITES HISTORY PIN www.historypin.com/community-schools/ TROVE http://trove.nla.gov.au/ Images from Picture Australia including all contributions from Flickr users can now be found in the new TROVE service. TROVE links to over 247,574,106 Australian and online resources: e.g. books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more PROV http://prov.vic.gov.au/ Passenger lists Index to Unassisted Inward Passenger Lists to Victoria 1852-1923 Index to Assisted British Immigration 1839-1871 Index to Outward Passengers to Interstate, U.K. and Foreign Ports, 1852-1908 SOVEREIGN HILL www.sovereignhill.com.au/education