Exhibition resource
Suitable for: Years 5 to 10
Learning areas: History, Science, Geography
Topics: History of Melbourne, Water
Use this set of multiple-choice questions to test students’ understanding of content experienced during your visit to Sciencework’s FlushBack AR adventure.
FlushBack brings to life the rich history and remarkable engineering of the heritage-listed Spotswood Pumping Station while also building students’ understanding of the importance of sewerage systems, and how they fit into the water cycle.
This resource is designed to be used pre- or post- visit.
Use these multiple-choice questions to test students’ understanding before experiencing FlushBack and then again after playing.
Alternatively, use the multiple-choice questions as a way to summarise the content of FlushBack after playing the game.
In this activity students will
- Build an understanding of the importance of sewage systems.
- Cement their knowledge of urban and natural water cycles.
- Learn about the history of sanitation and sewage in Melbourne.
- Consider some of the challenges involved in treating and recycling water
Suggested questions to engage students
- What role does the sewage system plays in our daily lives?
- What would life have been like in Melbourne before the sewage system was built?
- What are the biggest the challenges faced by those maintaining Melbourne’s sewage system?
What to do
Download and print the multiple choice questions for students to answer.
- Flashback to FlushBack worksheet| 103.23 KB .pdf file
Answers
1.(a), 2.(c), 3.(a), 4.(b), 5.(c), 6.(a), 7.(a), 8.(a), 9.(a), 10.(a), 11.(b), 12.(d), 13.(d), 14.(d)
Victorian Curriculum Links
Science: Levels 5 and 6
Use and influence of science
- scientific knowledge, skills and data can be used by individuals and communities to identify problems, consider responses and make decisions (VC2S6H02)
Design and Technologies: Levels 5 and 6
Technologies and society
- how people in design and technologies occupations consider competing ethical factors including sustainability in the design of products, services and environments (VC2TDE6S01)
Materials and technologies specialisations
- explain how characteristics and properties of materials, systems, components and tools affect their use when producing designed solutions (VC2TDE6C04)
Science: Levels 7 and 8
Use and influence of science
- proposed scientific responses to socio-scientific issues impact on society and may involve ethical, environmental, social and economic considerations (VC2S8H03)
Geography: Levels 7 and 8
Water in the world
- the classification of water as a renewable resource, the forms that it takes as a resource in the water cycle, and the ways in which flows of water connect and change places (VC2HG8K01)
- the distribution and variability of Australia’s water resources and the forecasted impacts of climate change on them (VC2HG8K03)
- the nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, with examples from Australia, and West Asia and/or North Africa (VC2HG8K04)
Design and Technologies: Levels 7 and 8
Technologies and society
- how people in design and technologies occupations consider ethical factors to design and produce products, services and environments (VC2TDE8S01)
Materials and technologies specialisations
- analyse how characteristics and properties of tools, materials, systems and components can be selected, manipulated and combined to create designed solutions that are ethical (VC2TDE8C04)
History: Levels 9 and 10
Historical knowledge and understanding
- the significant events, individuals and groups in the women’s movement in Australia, and how they have changed the role and status of women
(VC2HH10K05)
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