FlushBack Digital Scavenger Hunt: Secondary

In this interactive experience, students use technology to explore the Spotswood Pumping Station in ways they’ve never seen it before.

After a brief introduction from a staff member, students roam the Pumping Station with iPads to discover augmented reality characters and complete unique challenges.

This award-winning game is curriculum-aligned, historically accurate, interdisciplinary and highly engaging for a broad range of students.

Students will experience

• Exploring the Spotswood Pumping Station in pairs.

• Using iPads to scan icons that load augmented reality characters and animations that bring the Spotswood Pumping Station to life.

• Meeting colourful characters from the past who teach them how the Pumping Station worked.

• Helping characters by solving problems on a scavenger hunt through the heritage building.

• Game activities including: stoking the boilers to the right pressure, identifying what’s blocking the sewer, helping an old man find his false teeth, identifying bacteria growing in the sewerage pipes, and completing the water cycle.

Students will learn

• The rich history and science of the Spotswood Pumping Station, including the role of female scientist Lucey Alford.

• That water is an important resource which cycles through our cities and environment, and that we need to take care of it.

• How the sewerage system plays a part in our daily lives and the water cycle of a city.

• That scientists and engineers use their skills and technology to solve problems that affect people and everyday life.

• That augmented reality combines real world experiences with augmented and animated elements on a device, and can be used in games for learning.