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Students looking at trenches at Museum of Sydney for Whose Place program
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‘Marking Time’ Together- Make your own Time Capsule!

Taking photos, writing letters, losing objects: just like the sources we study from the past, we all ‘Mark Time’ every day! But how do these become important sources for studying the past?

CPD Damien Egan showing a bean seed to students wearing gardening gloves in the kitchen garden.
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How to grow broad beans

Some handy hints to help you look after your broad bean seed after your excursion to Vaucluse House

CPD (Bridget) talking to students about Gordon Syron painting, for Whose Place program at Museum of Sydney
Virtual Excursion

History Week Virtual Event: Marking Time – How Do We Remember First Contact?

How do different communities remember the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788? Explore ‘Marking Time’ this History Week in our free virtual live event, considering the perspectives on First Contact

3D model of a bone object
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Toys in the past

Let your Stage 1 students explore this 3D mystery object to find out more about games played by children and adults in the past

Students laying in the hammocks at Hyde Park Barracks on the Home: Convicts, Migrants & First People Learning program
Onsite

History Adventures at the Barracks

Join us for a one-of-a-kind museum experience, where kids will discover what life was for the convicts at the Hyde Park Barracks!

Eat Your History publication photography at Vaucluse House
Virtual Excursion

Cooking up the past

Discuss how food was grown, stored and cooked in the past, in the 1820s kitchen at historic Vaucluse House

Virtual Excursion

Growing up in the past

Discuss what life was like for rural children in the early 1900s and learn about household chores and technology from the past

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Life in the past...stinks!

We can’t go back in time, we can still visit the places where people once lived and worked - and do some of their jobs

Children and adults dressed in period costume holding ribbons attached to pole.
Onsite

Lessons from the Past

Integrating outcomes from History, PDHPE and Creative Arts, this program gives students the opportunity to learn firsthand about what school life was like in the late 19th century