🧩 Instructional/Educational Processes.
Overview
The learning tasks below will be aimed at letting the students discover the history and meaning of Elizabeth Farm by means of inquiry-based and hands-on learning. All the tasks are aligned with the NSW History K-6 Syllabus (2024) and help students to establish significant links between the history and the present.
Activity 1: Learning about the Elizabeth Farm
The students explore the life of early settlers with emphasis on the way of life and experiences of Macarthur family.
Learning Focus:
• Trace the developments in the home life, agriculture, and technology since the late 1700s.
• The changes can be shown to illustrate continuity and change.
Classroom Task:
Students contrast ancient artefacts (photos, tools, clothing) against the modern ones to discuss the way life has changed. They are also able to compose a brief journal entry as a colonel child in Elizabeth Farm.
Activity 2: Aboriginal worldview and Indigenous connection to the land
Students research into the way Aboriginal people used to live in Parramatta region before colonisation and how the way of life was influenced by the arrival of Europeans.
Learning Focus:
• Appreciate the strong bond that Aboriginal people have with Country.
• Learn to see history through the lens of different points of view and empathy.
Site Task:
Students name native plants as sources of food, shelter and medicine and explain how the aboriginal knowledge of the land made the Aborigines sustainable and able to survive.
Activity 3: Mapping the Past and Present
The students discuss old and new maps of Parramatta to observe how the land use has evolved.
Learning Focus:
• Know cause and effect with respect to city development and colonisation.
Classroom Task:
Students draw an overlay of a map on the Elizabeth Farm in the 1800s and the present area illustrating how land, buildings, and community functions have changed.
Activity 4: Reflect and Connect
Students reflect on what they learned about identity, culture and heritage after visiting or researching a place, which is the Elizabeth Farm.
Learning Focus:
• Create empathy through comparison of different opinions and experiences.
Reflection Task:
Students compose a paragraph or create an illustration of how Elizabeth Farm is an expression of Australian collective history of strength, adaptation and development.
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