SCHOOL VISITS
A museum is a MYSTERIOUS place FOR
A BUDDING DETECTIVE TO INVESTIGATE THE PAST!
HOW CURIOUS & IMAGINATIVE ARE YOUR STUDENTS?
ARE YOUR STUDENTS LITTLE HISTORIANS?
WHAT DO YOUR STUDENTS KNOW ALREADY?
WHAT WOULD YOUR STUDENTS LIKE TO KNOW?
HOW ARE YOUR STUDENTS GOING TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO KNOW?
Will opinions change or stay the same?
INFORMATION FOR TEACHERS
Visits are offered each year from the beginning of April to end of October.
DATES AVAILABLE FOR 2020 will depend on when school excursions are allowed following the COVID19 pandemic.
Please note: For assistance with transport costs, please refer to the Ipswich City Council's website "Grants" section.
Take your students back in time with interactive and immersive excursions at
Cooneana Heritage Centre!
Students are invited to make (and eat) real butter, mince carrots, play historic
games, dance to 1950's music, write on slates, do the washing, explore coal mining, motor cycles, spinning and weaving, blacksmithing, lawn mowing.
So, come join us as we dance, dress up and have lots of fun in the olden days.
Technology through the ages
Teachers are encouraged to meet with our Education Coordinator by appointment prior to the visit to familiarise themselves with the site and to conduct a risk assessment for their students' visit.
Day & arrival time for visit:
Thursday (other days possible by negotiation) between 9.00 and 9.30.
Snapshot for Years 2 and 3
Duration Maximum students Activities
9.30am -12.00pm Maximum 60 students per day This program offers a
Activities are 20 minutes Larger groups will need to visit choice of up to 6
per session and there over multiple weeks/days. different stations
are 6 stations
Supervision ratios Bookings offered Cost
When visiting the centre, we Sessions are offered in $6.00 per student
require a ratio of 1:6 terms 2 & 3 on Thursdays only. GST included
accompanying adults to Other days may be negotiated Supervising adults
students Free
Bookings Morning Tea
1 month in advance A break for morning tea
If you would like to make 10.30 - 11.00 am
a booking contact us via
email: ipswichhistoricalsociety@gmail.com
Activities
In the Olden Days:
During their exploration of the past, students have the opportunity to explore
Jim Donald house. Where the children will gain an insight into everyday home life for many early settlers/pioneers.
They can compare the differences set-out before them and discover just how hard life really was in the 'land of milk and honey'.
During their exploration of the past, students have the opportunity to explore
Jim Donald house. Where the children will gain an insight into everyday home life for many early settlers/pioneers.
They can compare the differences set-out before them and discover just how hard life really was in the 'land of milk and honey'.
How was it done?
Home-made butter, carrots, honeycomb – oh gosh!
These activities are sure to have students' asking questions about the olden days.
Where is the bath? Experience life as it was before electricity.
Exactly how was it done?
From coffee beans, to kerosene lamps, mincers, to the sweet smell/taste of honeycomb and home-made butter.
Students will gain an understanding and a yearning to discover more.
Home-made butter, carrots, honeycomb – oh gosh!
These activities are sure to have students' asking questions about the olden days.
Where is the bath? Experience life as it was before electricity.
Exactly how was it done?
From coffee beans, to kerosene lamps, mincers, to the sweet smell/taste of honeycomb and home-made butter.
Students will gain an understanding and a yearning to discover more.
Olden days at School:
This experience of an old classroom is sure to delight students and teachers.
Seated in wooden desks children will be able to experience an in-class session of days gone by - from slates and ink wells, duster and chalk to good manners.
In the past students had to watch their 'P's and 'Q's or they may have just experienced '6 of the best'!
This experience of an old classroom is sure to delight students and teachers.
Seated in wooden desks children will be able to experience an in-class session of days gone by - from slates and ink wells, duster and chalk to good manners.
In the past students had to watch their 'P's and 'Q's or they may have just experienced '6 of the best'!
Wash Day
Wash days, from mangles, to dolly pegs, washboards and coppers,
a real soap suds peek into the past with hands on experience will give children
an understanding of just how tough the weekly laundry really was.
Wash days, from mangles, to dolly pegs, washboards and coppers,
a real soap suds peek into the past with hands on experience will give children
an understanding of just how tough the weekly laundry really was.
Coal Mining
Through an interactive film students delve into the local history of coal mining and explore the hardships experienced by early miners.
Students will gain insight into the expansion of the Ipswich region through an abundance of coal, and into work in underground coal mines.
During their tour of the past, students will gain an understanding of a coal mine tunnel, and mining equipment.
Through an interactive film students delve into the local history of coal mining and explore the hardships experienced by early miners.
Students will gain insight into the expansion of the Ipswich region through an abundance of coal, and into work in underground coal mines.
During their tour of the past, students will gain an understanding of a coal mine tunnel, and mining equipment.
Other stations available:
Historic Motor Cycle Club: Motor cycles through the ages
Blacksmiths: Experience the forge and find out what an Anvil is used for
Spinners and Weavers: See fleece turned into yarn, spinning wheel & loom
Communication: verbal and written (Telephone, Typewriters)
Dress up's and games: Marbles, skipping, Hop scotch
Lawn mowers: Scythe, reaping hooks, push rotary mowers.
Please discuss your specific requirements with our Education Coordinator.
Historic Motor Cycle Club: Motor cycles through the ages
Blacksmiths: Experience the forge and find out what an Anvil is used for
Spinners and Weavers: See fleece turned into yarn, spinning wheel & loom
Communication: verbal and written (Telephone, Typewriters)
Dress up's and games: Marbles, skipping, Hop scotch
Lawn mowers: Scythe, reaping hooks, push rotary mowers.
Please discuss your specific requirements with our Education Coordinator.
Curriculum links:
Year Two:
Inquiry and skills
Questioning: Pose questions about past and present objects, people, places and events (ACHASS1034)
Researching: Collect data and information from observations and identify information and date from
sources provided (ACHASS1035)
Analysing: Explore a point of view (ACHASS1038)
Compare objects from the past with those from the present and consider how places have
changed overtime (ACHASS1039)
Evaluating and reflection: Draw simple conclusions based on discussions, observations and information displayed in pictures and texts and on maps (ACHASS1041)
Knowledge and understanding
Inquiry questions: What aspects from the past can you see today? What do they tell us?
What remains of the past are important to the local community? Why?
How have changes in technology shaped our daily life?
Content: The history of a significant person, building, site and/or part of natural environment in the local community and what it reveals about the past (ACHASSK044)
The importance today of a historical site of cultural or spiritual significance in the local area, and why it should be preserved (ACHASSK045)
How changing technology affected people's lives (at home and in the ways they worked, travelled, communicated and played in the past (ACHASSK046)
Year Three
Inquiry and skills:
Questioning: Pose questions to investigate people, events, places and issues (ACHASS1052)
Researching: Locate and collect information from data from different sources, including observations
(ACHASS1053)
Evaluation and reflecting: Draw simple conclusions based on analysis of information and data
(ACHASS1058)
Knowledge and understanding:
Inquiry questions: How has our community changed? What features have been lost and what
features have been retained?
What is the nature of the contribution made by different groups and individuals
in the community?
Content: How the community has changed and remained the same over time and the role
that people of diverse backgrounds have played in the development and character
of the local community (ACHASSK063)
Planning your visit
Maximum of 60 students per day. Prior to arrival, students have been broken evenly across 6 groups of no more than 10 students each. Students to wear name tags.
When booking please indicate if any of your students have special needs, allergies or
learning difficulties so we can accommodate their needs during the visit.
Students to wear closed in shoes, bring their own hat, water bottle, and morning tea. It is
recommended students leave their bags at school.
Students are encouraged to come in period costume if they wish.
Bus parking is available on site
Behaviour management remains the responsibility of teachers and carers. Ensure accompanying
adults actively supervise the students
Please plan to arrive between 9.00 and 9.30 am to allow for introductions and toilet visits.
Late arrivals will result in elements or activities cut from the program to keep with scheduled
finish time. Session Times: 9.30 - 9.50 am, 9.50 - 10.10 am, 10.10 - 10.30 am, 11.00 - 11.20 am,
11.20 - 11.40 am, 11.40 -12.00 pm. Morning Tea 10.30 – 11.00 am
An invoice will be sent to the school after your visit.
All volunteer guides have blue cards, volunteer tour guide/s are allocated to each station
Location
Cooneana Heritage Centre
1041 Redbank Plains Road
New Chum Ipswich
Qld 4303
P: (07) 32820358
E: Education Coordinator
ipswichhistoricalsociety@gmail.com
Maximum of 60 students per day. Prior to arrival, students have been broken evenly across 6 groups of no more than 10 students each. Students to wear name tags.
When booking please indicate if any of your students have special needs, allergies or
learning difficulties so we can accommodate their needs during the visit.
Students to wear closed in shoes, bring their own hat, water bottle, and morning tea. It is
recommended students leave their bags at school.
Students are encouraged to come in period costume if they wish.
Bus parking is available on site
Behaviour management remains the responsibility of teachers and carers. Ensure accompanying
adults actively supervise the students
Please plan to arrive between 9.00 and 9.30 am to allow for introductions and toilet visits.
Late arrivals will result in elements or activities cut from the program to keep with scheduled
finish time. Session Times: 9.30 - 9.50 am, 9.50 - 10.10 am, 10.10 - 10.30 am, 11.00 - 11.20 am,
11.20 - 11.40 am, 11.40 -12.00 pm. Morning Tea 10.30 – 11.00 am
An invoice will be sent to the school after your visit.
All volunteer guides have blue cards, volunteer tour guide/s are allocated to each station
Location
Cooneana Heritage Centre
1041 Redbank Plains Road
New Chum Ipswich
Qld 4303
P: (07) 32820358
E: Education Coordinator
ipswichhistoricalsociety@gmail.com
The society has an extensive reference library that senior students may access.
The society's volunteers may be available to assist with research activities.
Maybe students would like to research our historical site, historical buildings, or an historical person, for example.
The Ipswich Genealogical Society may also be contacted via email secretary@igs.org.au
