Getting Started with Homeschooling
Practical Considerations for Parents of School-Aged Children
© Beverley Paine
Index
Homeschool
Australia
Using Excursions
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FOCUS ON SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HISTOR
| Areas to explore: | Structures and Systems Heritage and Change Cultures and Beliefs Space and Place |
| Topics: | Aboriginal Life, Past & Present European Settlement Exploration & Exploitation Political Systems |
Aims:
- understand that Aboriginal people are the original inhabitants and that they continue to be a part of South Australian society: especially local peoples - Kaurna, Ngarrindgeri, Narrunga
- identify ways in which present South Australian culture has been influenced by people in the past - Aboriginals, settlers, explorers, migrants; investigate reasons and effects; identify a range of people who settled and the effect on cultural practices in the areas they settled
- take part in historical and cultural celebrations
- compare things now and then - tools, people, environment, etc
- discuss impact of Aboriginal and European settlement on natural environment
- find information about the changing roles of women and children over time
- arrange a time line, showing historical and important cultural events
- find out about important South Australians, and what made (makes) them important - politics, exploration, welfare, cultural, mining, agricultural, scientists, etc.
- investigate political systems and history, early British influence and support, role of minority groups, structures
Resources:
- Contact museums, etc., for information, opening times, costs
- Gather theme support materials - books, videos (fact and fiction), audio cassettes; use local libraries, historical and cultural associations and societies, individuals, local Councils
Support Strategies:
- scrap-book record of visits, including pamphlets and information, photographs, personal reflections, issues discussion
- art and craft activities - models, dress-ups, dioramas, artefact making, practicing ‘past’ skills, etc
- listening to and watching performance art - music, dance and recreating, making traditional cultural instruments, etc
- reading stories, watching videos, TV, reference books Excursions:
- Tandanya - Aboriginal Women & Art; guided tour, notes, explanation of symbols, meanings, sacred significance, insights into traditional and contemporary art and lifestyles, exposure to a variety of art techniques Adelaide Museum - Aboriginal Exhibit, dreaming stories, video and audio presentations, · ‘past’ lifestyles, art display, artefacts, fossils, craft, music
- Maritime Museum - Early European arrival, conditions of sea voyage, reasons for settlement, life of sailor (oral account), development of Port Adelaide area, recreational past- times of early European settlers, history of travel and emigration by sea
- Buffalo Museum - replica full size ship, recreate voyage, first white settlers
- Migration Museum - awareness of reasons for waves of immigration, varieties of nationalities, white Australian policy and effects and issues, effect of overseas wars, migrant life
- Old Gum Tree - Proclamation of South Australia - what it means
- Art Gallery - art over 150 years, SA artist, influence of landscape and living conditions on art in Australia over time
- Old Parliament House Museum - development of Adelaide (photographic), development of political processes and construction of New Parliament House, women in politics, and the Temperance Movement
- Parliament House - tour of both chambers, history, how laws are made
- Talisker Mine, Yankalilla Museum, Rapid Bay - mining conditions and techniques, comparison to modern times, country life and settlement by Europeans, changing land use, focus on local history (including Aboriginal people)
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Excerpt from Getting Started with Homeschooling, Practical Considerations
© Beverley Paine, 1997
