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Stage 4

Making Connections program with students from Rose Bay Secondary College and Learning Producer at archaeology pit.
Onsite

Country, Colonisation and Legacies

Students investigate the far-reaching impacts of the convict system on Aboriginal peoples and explore its enduring legacies

Emily with students looking at artefacts in Museum of Sydney for Unearthed: Digging Up the Past pilot program.
Onsite

Unearthed: Digging Up the Past

Do you want to take your Stage 4 students to the site of a significant archaeological dig? Engage them in the process of excavation? And get them thinking about the value of archaeology?

Sarah Bunn and Peter White with Governor Darling's Commission
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Terra nullius, Perspectives, Reconciliation

What was terra nullius? How can you examine Australian history from Aboriginal perspectives? How does understanding past decisions, help Reconciliation?

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What does archaeology tell us?

Who were the secret archaeologists living at the Hyde Park Barracks?

Benchtop and cupboards below curtained windows in older style kitchen.
Onsite

Meroogal student tours

Tours are available at Meroogal for students in Stages 4, 5 & 6, exploring aspects of the collection relating to food technologies, textiles technologies and Industrial technologies – timber

Education programme at Hyde Park Barracks.
Onsite

Archaeology Underfoot

As they experience historical archaeology first hand, students learn to differentiate between the roles of historian and archaeologist

Assorted fragments of cloth, bones, teeth, pipes, a rat, shells, rope and a coin found under the floor at Hyde Park Barracks during the Convict period
Virtual Excursion

Solve it using sources

This history skills based virtual excursion program is focused on analysis of source material to understand historical events and peoples

Student and carer looking at convict bricks on wheelchair tray. Cayn assisting.
Onsite

Making Connections accessible program

Onsite program at the Hyde Park Barracks for primary and secondary school students with access requirements