Teaching Kits
In order to make the most out of your visit to Sovereign Hill, the following teaching resources are offered.
Creswick Mining Disaster Teaching Kit
This online resource kit for teachers, students and interested public has links to primary and secondary sources of information about the Creswick Mining disaster of 1882. It contains movies, podcasts, pictures and newspaper artilces and classroom teaching ideas.
VELS Sample Units
- These units involve some pre-visit work, some activities at Sovereign Hill and follow up work back at school.
- Each is designed to offer your students purpose, choice and ownership over their learning while on excursion and provides relevant VELS assessment procedures.
- Each unit culminates in the presentation of a rich task.
These pdfs may take some time to download! If you experience difficulties, please contact the Education Service on (03) 5337 1188 or phoban@sovereignhill.com.au so we can send you an email or a hard copy.
Levels | Unit Title | ||
1 | Students make a picture story book of a class teddy's trip to Sovereign Hill. | Available Now (1.4 mb) | |
3 & 4 | A resource kit for Uppper Primary school students about Nineteenth Century Migration to the Goldfields | Available now (3 mb) | |
3 & 4 | Students undertake the research at Sovereign Hill to build models of houses or machinery or to make costumes, etc possibly contributing to a class diorama of the diggings or the township. | Avaialble Now (2.1 mb) | |
4 & 6 | Choose your own Adventure: Authentic Learning at Sovereign Hill | Students choose a project from Multiple Intelligences / Blooms grid to research while at Sovereign Hill. A variety of presentation styles are suggested and a simple planning tool makes life easy for teachers | Available Now Level 4 (670 kb) Level 6 (751 kb) |
6 | Students develop a movie, Powerpoint, model, soundscape or other presentation in response to a theme of their choice. (Some suggested themes prompt higher level thinking). Sovereign Hill is used as both a research and a presentation tool | Available Now (800 kb) |