Making an Impact

Tailored to the History Curriculum needs of Year Five.

In the Year 5 Program Making an Impact, your students will explore key questions like:

• What do we know about the lives of people in Hobart’s colonial past and how do we know?
• How did Hobart develop over time and why?
• How did colonial settlement change the environment?
• What were the significant events and who were the significant people that shaped Tasmanian colonies?

Through the prism of these questions, students will look at

• settlement and development of Sullivan’s Cove
• whaling
• boatbuilding and shipbuilding
• the movement of people and goods
• change to the environment over time
• significant individuals

Students will learn to use primary sources such as objects, film and images to develop and test hypotheses, and use their imaginations to try to understand life as a whaler or the wife of a shipwright.

As well as the activity cards that guide students through the museum there is a rich selection of pre and post visit activities for teachers to choose from to tailor the program to their student's needs.