Introduction to The Workshops Rail Museum
A great way to enliven and value-add your museum experience. Sessions prepare students for getting the most out of their visit.
Audience: Years Prep – 6
Duration: Allow up to 45 minutes per session. Rotations for large groups may be hourly to include a reset period.
Curriculum: HASS - History, Geography | Technologies - Design and Technologies
Availability: Monday - Thursday, Terms 1 - 4, weeks 2 - 9
Get on board and take a journey to enrich your Museum visit as students explore the history and stories of the Ipswich Railway Workshops and the people who worked here.
This staff-led presentation is accompanied with a self-guided ‘scavenger hunt’ that will get your students thinking critically while exploring objects, little and large.
This multi-sensory presentation and investigation motivates inquiry learning, while taking you through the museum collections.
Students will
- Engage in guided discussion about the significance of the site and types of jobs that took place
- Compare technologies and design of objects used then and now
- Investigate how a range of sources can provide historical evidence
- Recognise Ipswich as a geographical location for early settlement and expanding industries
- Work collaboratively on their Scavenger Hunt task
Learning Outcomes
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Making connections between histories, geography and technologies
- Observing, identifying, and interpreting objects and sites to find answers or elicit further questions
- Developing curiosity and imagination
- Building inquiry skills and encouraging critical and creative thinking
- Celebrating museum collections and the role of a museum in documenting change
Session Details
- Program led by Museum staff
- $6.00 per student. Supervising adults FREE
- Minimum 10 students
- A Scavenger Hunt activity sheet master will be sent to the school ahead of your visit.
This activity engages students in the context of comparing then and now/past and present.
Group Visit Information
For information on booking a group into a program and additional information for your visit, go to the Planning your school visit page. Groups may be allocated time for self-guided Museum exploration during school program rotation.