Small Town, BIG History is a day program at Minjerribah or North Stradbroke Island. This unique and hands-on learning experience inspires students to be 'Champions for the Bay' as they explore the history of this significant site in the local community and discover what these special places reveal about the past and how this connects to the present.
Students are recruited as history detectives, exploring, uncovering and reporting on the history and special places of Moreton Bay, with their particular mission focused on Dunwich, where history's mysteries are to be uncovered.
On the day of the program, students travel by boat to Dunwich and visit three significant sites - One Mile, Polka Point and North Stradbroke Island Historical Museum. A variety of sources are interrogated by students as they build their understandings. These sources include an Indigenous cultural presentation by a local Quandamooka person, investigation of various historic sites and a study of objects and photographs from the past. Students reflect on concepts old and new; past and present; as well as significant places and Indigenous connection to these places.
Following the program, students showcase their historical understanding through the construction of a sequenced timeline.
Curriculum Intent - Year 2 |
Humanities and Social Sciences Inquiry and Skills
Researching
Collect data and information from observations and identify information and data from sources provided (ACHASSI035).
Sort and record information and data, including location, in tables and on plans and labelled maps (ACHASSI036).
Sequence familiar objects and events (ACHASSI037). Analysing
Compare objects from the past with those from the present and consider how places have changed over time (ACHASSI039). Evaluating and Reflecting
Reflect on learning to propose how to care for places that are important and significant (ACHASSI042).
Knowledge and Understanding
History
The history of a significant person, building, site and/or part of the natural environment in the local community and what it reveals about the past (ACHASSK044).
The importance today of a historical site of cultural or spiritual significance in the local area, and why it should be preserved (ACHASSK045).
How changing technology affected people's lives (at home and in the ways they worked, travelled, communicated and played in the past) (ACHASSK046).
Geography
The idea that places are parts of Earth's surface that have been named by people, and how places can be defined at a variety of scales (ACHASSK048).
The ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples maintain special connections to particular Country/Place (ACHASSK049).
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