Lower Secondary

Teachers guide

Classroom activities and resources to enable students to investigate the three themes explored in the learning kit, before, during and after your hire.

Two museum staff presenting to an iPad which shows schools watching from the classroom.

Introduction

Introduction to the resources and tips for how to use them

Before the kit arrives

Activities to do before the kit arrives
Kooyang (eel) diorama, demonstrating how eel traps were used by Indigenous people in Victoria.

Investigating the past

How have First Peoples maintained sustainable food systems for over 65,000 years in Australia?
Woman wearing a black hat standing between two open gates, several cows can be seen gathered behind her

Observing the present

What are farmers doing today to secure our sustainable food futures?
Ontario Windfarm photographed from Highway 10.

Preparing for the future

What are the challenges facing the future of food security?
Hand picking a tomato from a vegetable garden bed at Immigration Museum.

Further learning

Apply your learnings to project style activities.

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