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Teaching Kits
In order to make the most out of your visit to Sovereign Hill, the following teaching resources are offered.
The Settlement of Victoria: An AusVELS Teaching Kit for Level 5
This kit is in draft form and is offered for teachers to trial. It provides links to online resources and practical ideas to teach the content and skills of the national curriculum and culminates in a student project on a famous Victorian. Download a Teachers Guide and AusVELS grid here. A diigo website of bookmarks relating to the research options in this kit is also available and teachers and students are encouraged to add their own good websites. We hope you will help us improve the kit by completing the evaluation form.
New Gold Mountain
This fantastic kit was originally published in 2002 and provides information and primary sources for the study of the Chinese on the Goldfields. It is an excellent resource for the Victorian Essential Learning Standards and for the Australian Curriculum cross curriculum priority of Asia and Australia's Engagement with Asia. The kit should be used in conjunction with these two documents.
Representing and Commemorating History
An education resource for teachers and students participating in the Burke and Wills Explorer Fountain Project. Linked to VELS Levels 2, 3 and 4 and the Australian History Curriculum.
Supporting Paper: The Burke and Wills Expedition, Gold and Ballarat by Jan Croggon, The Sovereign Hill Museums Association.
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 | Put Yourself in the Picture; Nineteenth Century Immigration | 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) |