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What and how were students taught?
What and how were students taught?
Learning intention – We are using photographs and other sources to learn about the past.
Success criteria – We can create 3D models and explanation to communicate our understandings.
Lesson suggestions
Lesson suggestions
District inspectors published photographs in the NSW Public Instruction Gazette and The Education Gazette of lessons and activities they had seen during their inspections of schools. These provided suggestions on ways they could teach their students about the war.
The model military camp below replicated the bell tents and infrasture of military training camps in Australia and Egypt. The main training camp in NSW was the Liverpool Military Camp in south-western Sydney.
Public Instruction and Education Gazettes
Public Instruction and Education Gazettes
The NSW Public Instruction Gazette published to August 1915 was renamed The Education Gazette from September 1915. The gazettes, a type of journal or magazine, were the main form of communication by the NSW Department of Education to their teachers.
Crystal Street Kindergarten School, Military Camp, Empire Day 1915. This model of a military training camp made in the school playground shows bell tents, rail transport, sea transport, huts, soldiers, horses and other livestock. The Public Instruction Gazette, 2 August 1915, p.209
Suggestions for Correlation of Lessons for the War. The Education Gazette, 1 December 1915, pp.352-353
Australian military camp in Cairo, Egypt, 1917, included in an article on The Crusades. The School Magazine, Part 3, 1 Feb 1918, p15.
Suggestions for Correlation of Lessons with the War by F Putland, Public School, Grafton
Suggestions for Correlation of Lessons with the War by F Putland, Public School, Grafton
Transcript of Education Gazette article
Transcript of Education Gazette article
Make a sand model of the country between Germany and France, and then explain why the Germains marched through Belgium. Were there other reasons?
What difficulties would a Russian army encounter trying to invade Austria? Give other examples.
Why are the Australians fighting in Gallipoli? Make a map or model of the Gallipoli Peninsula and try to explain why our casualty lists are so heavy and why we are so long in forcing the Dardenelles?
Why are the following places of interest ot Ausgtralians - Cocos Island, Malta, Cairo, Rabaul, Samoa, Suvla Bay, Gaba Tepeh, Achi Baba?
Write an imaginary conversation between a Waterloo veteren and a present-day soldier. Try to bring out the changes in the methods of fighting.
Suggestions for Correlation of Lessons for the War. The Education Gazette, 1 December 1915, pp.352-353
Activities
Activities
View the photograph of the Australian military camp in Cairo and bell tents at the Liverpool Military Camp.
Use paper to construct a bell tent.
Undertake activity 3 in the list of suggested activities. Use The Gallipoli Campaign, 1915 as a guide.
Make a map or 3D model of the Gallipoli Peninsula
Locate the Dardenelles, Suvla Bay, Gaba Tepeh
Try to explain why our casualty lists were so heavy and why we were so long in forcing the Dardenelles.
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