The Heritage Education Centre - POST visit activities
Write a letter of thanks to your hosts, including a few things you learnt during your visit.
Write a letter "home". Imagine you have settled in a new country. Write a letter to family members still
living in your homeland, telling them about your new life.
Give a video / Powerpoint presentation to the class, of the photos/recordings you took at the site.
Using the map you made on-site, re-create it in 3D, using Google Sketchup.
Using the map you made on-site, re-create it in 3D, as a diorama.
Write a short story, poem, song or play relating to life in the 1870s. eg.
- "A day in the life of a schoolboy"
- "Chooks in the veggie patch"
- "Picking cherries"
- "Drought"
... and present to the class.
Hot Seat. You are an 1870's settler from another country, who has made his home in Australia. Answer questions
from your classmates from the settler's point of view.
Students set up a museum. Variations on a theme could be: True antiques from home; Antiquities from students'
own lives; Appreciating tomorrow's antiques; ideas from students
Make 2 lists. Which aspects of the excursion were the most/least helpful to you, in your understanding of the
topic? Be prepared to discuss "why?"/ "Why not?"
DVD "Wilderness - Real and Imagined" draws on remarkable films from the Film Australia Library
and the Archives Office of Tasmania. This beautifully designed two-DVD set explores the concept of wilderness.
Interviews cover themes from art to activism – looking at wilderness as something to conquer, treasure, exploit or
save. These DVDs are thought provoking... "(ABC Shop, 2007) Film Australia. (2005). ISBN / Catalogue Number:
104871-9. Debate the issue of wholesale clearing of land for farming purposes.
Investigate the logistics of running a household in the 1870's (travelling to town to buy and sell; household
commodities, etc.) How have needs changed?
Investigate the logistics of the 'Mont De Lancey Excursion'. Think about cost, timetable, number of participants.
Brainstorm other ideas. Research excursion destinations. Where would you choose to visit? Investigate the logistics
involved if your grade went there.
Thinking about a future investigation, is there anything you'd like to research as a result of attending this
field trip? Future destination? What would you like to know about this future site? Brainstorm future topics.
Write an 'excursion report' and upload it to the school's intranet.
Email a peer in the other 5/6 class. Write about your day at Mont De Lancey and mention three things you learnt
and three things you saw. Attach a photo. (ICT, English, Humanities).
Imagine you are in the first group of 'migrants to Mars'. There is a basic life-support infrastructure in place,
but no 'comforts'. It takes three years to get there, so even if you don't like it when you arrive and you decide
to come back immediately, you will be away from Earth for at least six years.
- What home comforts, if any, would you take with you?
- How would you make your new home a comfortable, enjoyable place to be?
- Would you miss Earth?
- How would you go about 'looking after a new planet' (sustainability / resources / economy)?
- Develop an aspect of this topic that interests you. Choose a mode of presentation that you think the
class would enjoy. Some ideas: a comic strip, diorama, Powerpoint presentation, a short video, a painting,
a play, short story or picture book, a poem or song...
Plant an acorn from Mont De Lancey's 130 year-old oak tree.
Make mud bricks and build a garden wall...
Make candles and other crafts which link to the past...
Look up the word "Utopia". What sort of society do we want to live in? This is your chance to create a fictional
societal system. Write one chapter a week...
What sort of person do I want to be? Write a letter to your[future]self, outlining goals for personal growth and
short term and long term plans for the future. Seal you letter into a 'Time Capsule', to be opened in 20 or 50 years.
'Class photo' at the Heritage Education Centre.
Churning butter.
Saturday Farmers Market
"Paddock to Plate" farmers produce market, 2nd Saturday of each month
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# 18 - CONSTRUCTION OF RECHABITE HALL 1886
For some time the meetings were held at the residences of Messrs T Quayle and H Sebire sen., respectively, and afterwards in the school building. Then, as the members' roll increased rapidly, it was considered desirable that these societies should have a special building of their own. In the year 1886 the present Rechabite Hall was constructed.
MONT DE LANCEY
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PO Box 316, Wandin, Victoria, 3139
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