Duration: 2 hours minimum
Years: Prep - 6
Location: Miles Township (Please note: transport from Columboola to Miles is required)
This village is considered to be of world class standard and has been operating since 1971. It offers a venue to explore and enhance many topics studied within the curriculum.
With over 30 buildings and countless displays, students can learn about Aboriginal studies; pioneering lifestyles, equipment and transport; the Great Artesian Basin; war; and local history.
Visit Miles Historical Village for further information.
Curriculum Links
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Prep-How the stories of families and the past can be communicated, for example, through photographs, artefacts, books, oral histories, digital media and museums Year 1-Differences and similarities between students' daily lives and life during their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods
Year 2-How changing technology affected people’s lives (at home and in the ways they worked, travelled, communicated and played in the past) Year 3-How the community has changed and remained the same over time and the role that people of diverse backgrounds have played in the development and character of the local community Year 4-The diversity of Australia's first peoples and the long and continuous connection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to Country/Place (land, sea, waterways and skies) Year 5-The nature of convict or colonial presence, including the factors that influenced patterns of development, aspects of the daily life of the inhabitants (including Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islander Peoples) and how the environment changed Year 6-The contribution of individuals and groups to the development of Australian society since Federation |