Deep Time: Exploring Australia's Deep Past
Weekdays during school term | 10am and 12.30pm
S280 per group (up to 32 students)
How can one place hold many kinds of evidence?
Explore the Origins gallery to investigate Australia’s Deep Time history through archaeology, living cultural knowledge and multiple forms of evidence. Students discover how different sources and knowledge reveal different aspects of the past, building richer understandings of Australia’s ancient landscapes, people and histories.
Student experience
Students will:
- Consider Deep Time from different perspectives
- Look closely at evidence in the Origins gallery to investigate a specific case study
- Discover how different sources and perspectives can tell different stories about a place
- Consider how different types of evidence and knowledge can add to our understanding of a place
Curriculum links
Programs at the WA Museum support teachers in their delivery of the WA Curriculum. This program links to the following strands of the Western Australian Curriculum:
Year 7
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HASS
History: Deep Time History of Australia- How Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the world’s oldest continuing cultures, displaying evidence of both continuity and change over Deep Time (WA7HAKUH2)
- The importance of conserving cultural heritage in collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (WA7HAKUH4)
HASS skills: Questioning and researching- Identify current understandings to consider possible gaps and/or misconceptions, new knowledge needed and challenges to personal perspectives (WA7HASKQ1)
- Identify differences in terms of origin and purpose between primary sources and secondary sources (WA7HASKQ5)
All facilitated workshops are led by the Museum’s experienced Learning and Engagement team and have been curated using the Museum’s unique resources to provide a deeper learning experience in our specialist subject areas.
Your booking for a facilitated workshop will include all materials and activities for the duration of the program with no prior preparation required.
As part of all facilitated workshop bookings, you are welcome to explore the rest of the Museum free of charge pre or post workshop and do not need to make any additional bookings to do so. WA Museum Boola Bardip is open daily from 9.30am - 5pm, with last entry at 4pm.
