By Jess on 13 June, 2011
History detectives have been bustling through our doors, uncovering stories and ‘reading’ sources in our program Not Just Ned: Irish Evidence. Read more >
Posted in Exhibition, Program | Tagged critical thinking, emotional engagement, storytelling, teaching
By Jess on 18 April, 2011
Australian teachers are not the only ones busily studying the new Australian Curriculum. Here at the Museum, we have been actively familiarising ourselves, with a particular focus on the History strand. Our office walls have been consumed by summary pages of the Australian Curriculum: History; we have had meetings devoted to exploring, learning and memorising the content of each year level; [...] Read more >
Posted in Be involved, Classroom resources, Inspiration | Tagged Australian Curriculum, teaching
By Jess on 13 April, 2011
Yesterday, Susannah and I facilitated a Not just Ned: Irish Migration Stories education program with a fantastic bunch of year 3 – 4 students. After the students had completed the discovery trail through the exhibition, we came back to our education rooms for a reflective exercise, which we learnt from Claudette Bateup our previous manager, to discover what [...] Read more >
Posted in Exhibition, Inspiration | Tagged engagement
By Jess on 15 February, 2011
You may think January is a relaxing time in the Education section, enjoying the quiet lull before the tide of visiting school groups wash through our doors. Well, we have been everything but relaxing as we prepare for the Museum’s upcoming exhibition Not just Ned: a true history of the Irish in Australia, which opens on 17 March. [...] Read more >
Posted in Exhibition | Tagged critical thinking, programs, sources, teaching, veracity
By Jess on 20 December, 2010
In response to increasing reports of frontier conflict between Aboriginal and European people in Tasmania, Governor Arthur issued proclamation boards like the one below. The idea was to encourage friendship and show equality between Aboriginal and European people. The proclamation boards were nailed to trees in 1830 in the hope that both Aboriginal and European people would [...] Read more >
Posted in Objects | Tagged history, Indigenous
By Jess on 18 October, 2010
Not all convicts were on their best behaviour when they arrived in Australia. One form of punishment to try to keep the re-offenders in line was humiliation. Female convicts would have their heads shaved to rob them of their feminine dignity and male convicts were assigned to chain gangs wearing the parti-coloured ‘magpie’ uniform (picture). The intention [...] Read more >
Posted in Objects | Tagged convicts
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