Aims:

To provide the opportunity to enhance the development of creative thinking and enquiry skills by the observation of the ingenuity of previous technologies and how people adapted and responded to their environment to give children an appreciation of their past.

Our Hands-on-History program for Primary schools includes:

• Local history slide show

• Working in a non-electric kitchen including butter making, cooking on a fue  stove, technology changes to keeping food cool, sewing on a treadle machine etc

• Laundry technology - washing, starching, making soap, scrubbing boards, water, ironing, mangling.

• Grading and packing fruit, chicken farming and egg packing.

• Using hand operated agricultural tools

• Indigenous art activities.

• Lesson in one-teacher classroom

Note:

The program is only available on Thursdays during term time

Facilities include onsite coach/car parking, covered barbecue, sheltered verandahs, kitchen facilities and disabled access.

EDUCATION PROGRAMS are organised by our team of education volunteers which includes qualified teachers who take every care of the children.

Teachers are encourage to prepare material prior to the visit and information is available from the booking officer on
 (02) 4657 1224.

Message sticks teach Aboriginal communication methods using painted symbols.