Bonus Episode 5: How to talk with kids about Australian history
This is a bonus episode for teachers, carers and parents featuring Professor Anna Clark and Professor Clare Wright.
Teaching and talking about history with kids can be rewarding and challenging.
From their experience studying and teaching history, Clare and Anna tackle questions like:
How can kids in primary school work with history’s complexity?
How can primary students consider the moral lessons of what they're learning?
How do you encourage kids when they're interested in history but get some facts wrong?
What’s one crucial thing to get across to kids about history?
Anna and Clare look at a concern about saying the wrong thing when talking about Australian history, and look at how to do Reconciliation while teaching or talking about history with kids?
And you'll hear why asking questions is an important part of how you talk about history, and how to use primary sources and historical objects to connect kids with the history of our country.
Episode 4 Gold fever
What were the Gold Rushes? Why did people from all over the world get ‘gold fever’? What was life like on the Ballarat goldfields of Victoria, on Wada Wurrung Country?
With so many different groups of people, how did everyone get along? Did First Nations people mine gold too? What was the Eureka Stockade?
Fred Cahir, Andrew Pearce, Sarah Van de Wouw and an oral history about a Chinese miner share the different experiences of goldfields life.
Episode 3 Convict kids
Why did kids get transported from Britain to Australia? What were their crimes? Did they miss their families? What was life like as a convict in Van Dieman’s Land, an open air prison on Palawa land?
Students from Sandy Bay Primary School in Hobart tell us what they know about convict kids.
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Marcelle Mangan tell the story of transportation, convict tattoos and tokens, and convict life at the Cascades Female Factory in Hobart.
Episode 1: The oldest classroom
How did First Nations people learn before books, school and the internet? What are some of the teaching places on Country?
Wayne Brennan and host Axel Clark visit a very old rock shelter on Dharug and Gundungurra Country, in the Blue Mountains of NSW. And we visit Yirrkala Bilingual School in North East Arnhem Land.
