FOLD LINES – DO NOT PRINT FRONT COVER 2017 STAGES 4, 5 & 6 SYDNEY LIVING MUSEUMS SCHOOL EXCURSIONS BOOK NOW FOR 2017 11 PROGRAMS • 5 SITES • NEW VIRTUAL EXCURSION INSIDE FRONT COVER 2017 STAGES 4, 5 & 6 SCHOOL EXCURSIONS CONTENTS WELCOME STAGE 4 Take a journey through time with Sydney Hyde Park Barracks Museum 4 Living Museums to interpret the past. With Sydney Living Museums your students will Museum of Sydney 6 discover past lives, events and stories in STAGE 5 the places where they actually unfolded. Hyde Park Barracks Museum 8 Our History programs ensure that students are STAGES 5 & 6 active participants in historical investigation, Justice & Police Museum 10 involving students in the analysis of primary and STAGE 6 secondary sources and the use of evidence to develop informed responses to inquiry questions. Susannah Place Museum 12 The Project 13 Our programs for secondary school students cover a range of topics, outcomes and cross- PARTNER PROGRAMS curriculum priorities from the NSW Syllabus for Museums Discovery Centre 14 the Australian Curriculum: History K-10. Muru Mittigar inside back cover Led by our highly trained staff, more than 10,000 high BOOKINGS 15 school students participate in our programs every year across our unique museums and historic houses. We look forward to welcoming you and your students in 2017. Mark Goggin Executive Director Students at Susannah Place Museum during Archaeology in The Rocks, learning about the Cunninghame family, who once lived at 60 Gloucester Street. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM SYDNEY The rich history and collections of this UNESCO World Heritage-listed site provide your students with unparalleled opportunities to investigate primary sources, including archaeological material. They will explore the stories of both the convicts and the female immigrants who resided at the barracks at different times in its history and formulate responses to historical inquiry questions. 4 slm.is/educationslm.is/education STAGE 4 Investigating History Archaeology Underfoot Students analyse and evaluate a range of primary DEPTH STUDY 1 and secondary sources, and reflect on the perspectives As they investigate the layered history of the Hyde and experiences of some of the people who lived at Park Barracks, students apply the processes and the Hyde Park Barracks, to develop their appreciation methods of the historian and the archaeologist. They of history as a study of human experience. They experience the different approaches to historical explore and discuss many of the museum’s displays, investigation by researching pictorial and written examine bias in historical artworks and learn sources and examining archaeological artefacts to about the practice of historical archaeology. complete a historical inquiry into the lives of different groups of people who lived at the barracks. HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM During a simulated archaeological dig, students Monday to Friday work in small groups to excavate an artefact, then $180 for up to 20 students categorise, weigh, measure, sketch and interpret it, and (see website for details) consider what it reveals about the history of the site. 1 hour Maximum 80 students HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM Monday to Friday IMAGES (left to right): Hyde Park Barracks Museum. Photo © Douglas Riley for Sydney Living Museums; A replica orphan’s trunk, modelled on an original displayed $180 for up to 20 students at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum, containing information about the experience of (see website for details) immigrant women during the 19th century. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums; Sydney Living Museums Curator Dr Fiona Starr inspects artefacts at the 1 hour 30 minutes Hyde Park Barracks Museum. Photo © Scott Finneran for Sydney Living Museums Maximum 60 students slm.is/education 5 MUSEUM OF SYDNEY on the site of first Government House SYDNEY 6 slm.is/educationslm.is/education STAGE 4 Built on the site of first Contact and Colonisation Government House, the Museum DEPTH STUDIES 1 & 6, TOPIC 6D of Sydney is located at one of the Students conduct a historical investigation into the process and impact of the British colonisation of Australia, first places of contact between examining sources and perspectives. They practise colonists and Aboriginal people, historical archaeology by analysing a range of archival sources, handling artefacts from the archaeological and its exhibits provide rich collection, and using them to answer inquiry questions. sources, including archaeological Students also explore the way the museum interprets material, through which students contact history through artworks, re-creations and artefacts. In the Gadigal Place gallery, students use can explore Sydney’s early history. primary and secondary sources to understand the different ways that Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people experienced contact and assess how the lives of individual Aboriginal people were affected by contact with the colonisers. MUSEUM OF SYDNEY Monday to Friday $180 for up to 20 students (see website for details) 1 hour 30 minutes Maximum 60 students IMAGES (left to right): The Project seminar day for students of History Extension. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums; Gadigal Place exhibition [detail], Museum of Sydney. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums slm.is/education 7 HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM SYDNEY The rich history and collections of this UNESCO World Heritage-listed site provide your students with unparalleled opportunities to investigate primary sources, including archaeological material. They will explore the stories of both the convicts and the female immigrants who resided at the barracks at different times in its history and formulate responses to historical inquiry questions. 8 slm.is/educationslm.is/education STAGE 5 ‘Perish or Prosper’ at the Hyde Park Barracks DEPTH STUDY 1 – MOVEMENT OF PEOPLES Students analyse a range of sources about the experiences of male convicts and assisted female Investigating History immigrants during the first half of the 19th century, identifying the different perspectives of these groups. Students explore the displays at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum to examine bias in historical artworks and Students focus on the experience of a particular convict evaluate the reliability of a range of sources. Using and use primary sources to investigate his experiences both archival records and archaeological artefacts, of leaving Britain, voyaging to New South Wales and they participate in an investigation and then answer adjusting to a new homeland. They also examine an inquiry question. Within the context of the actions, archaeological artefacts and archival records to answer values, attitudes and motives of people from the inquiry questions about the young orphan girls, survivors past, students analyse a range of primary and of the Great Irish Famine, who arrived in NSW as assisted secondary sources and use critical thinking skills. immigrants and were housed at the barracks after 1848. HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM Monday to Friday Monday to Friday $180 for up to 20 students $180 for up to 20 students (see website for details) (see website for details) 1 hour 1 hour 30 minutes Maximum 80 students Maximum 60 students IMAGES (left to right): Hammocks at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum. Photo © Haley Richardson and Stuart Miller for Sydney Living Museums; A replica of the wooden trunk given to Irish orphan Margaret Hurley in 1849 used during education programs at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum. The bonnet, religious materials and coins are a mix of primary and secondary sources. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums slm.is/education 9 STAGES & JUSTICE & 5 6 POLICE MUSEUM SYDNEY With its re-created 1890s holding cells, offices, charge room, courts and vast archive, the Justice & Police Museum reveals more than a century of law and order in Sydney. Your students can engage with primary and secondary sources in a historical investigation or learn how the law and society are interrelated through the museum’s collection items and a mock trial. 10 slm.is/educationslm.is/education A Trial Run STAGE 5 COMMERCE STAGE 6 LEGAL STUDIES Within the setting of a historic police station and courthouse, this program gives students the opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of the interrelationships between the law and society. Selected museum collection items are used to explain how the laws that govern society are developed, implemented and enforced. Students look at evidence that highlights how laws have evolved to reflect changing societal values and consider what it would have been like awaiting The Pyjama Girl Murder: trial in the holding cells. They also study the symbolism of the courtroom and learn about the A Case Study traditions and structure of the NSW legal system. STAGE 5 HISTORY ELECTIVE A special mention of and thanks to the Students are asked to investigate, as historians, the NSW Police Prosecutions Command infamous murder of Linda Agostini, known as the ‘Pyjama Girl’, by examining evidence from various A highlight of the program is the mock trial during primary and secondary sources. They watch a 1939 film which students assume the roles of various court and evaluate its reliability as a source for their inquiries, officials and work through the processes and etiquette and discuss perspectives presented by the media of the of a Local Court hearing of either a drink driving time. Students explore, examine and evaluate artefacts or a prohibited drug case. To add to the impact and documents relating to the case, including forensic and authenticity of the experience, where possible evidence found during the criminal investigation. a prosecutor from the NSW Police Prosecutions Command will attend the trial to act as the magistrate To conclude, students take part in a re-creation and talk to the students about their role. in the museum’s courtroom of the 1944 murder trial of Antonio Agostini, and draw their own JUSTICE & POLICE MUSEUM conclusions about the surprising legal outcome.