EDUCATION

Her Place Women's Museum develops and shares engaging and wide-reaching education programs to accompany exhibitions. The programs include primary and secondary curriculum-linked education resources for students and teachers.

These free classroom resources are intended to assist teachers to introduce and contextualise the stories of Her Place exhibitions.

The Her Place Education team hard at work planning 2019/2020 resources and programmes.

STEMpowered Teacher Professional Development at the new Yarra Ranges Tech School in 2019.

Resources by Exhibition

What Courage Such a Thing Takes: The Life of Mary De Garis Secondary Education Resource

EDUCATION RESOURCES

Accompanying the launch of the What Courage Such a Thing Takes: the Life of Mary De Garis is a FREE curriculum-linked education resources:

MARY DE GARIS SECONDARY EDUCATION RESOURCE

Her Place Pakenham / 24 October – 11 November 2018

EDUCATION RESOURCES

Accompanying the exhibition are FREE curriculum-linked education resources:

Primary Exhibition Activities

Primary Post-Exhibition Activities

Secondary Exhibition Activities

Her Place Morwell / 1 – 20 October 2018

EDUCATION RESOURCES

Accompanying the exhibition are FREE curriculum-linked education resources:

Primary Exhibition Activities

Primary Post-Exhibition Activities

Secondary Exhibition Activities

Her Place: Honouring Indigenous Women / 10 – 13 July 2018

Aunty Fay Carter
# Lesson Plan – Secondary

Alma Thorpe
# Activity Sheet – Secondary

Paola Balla
# Activity Sheet – Primary
#Lesson Plan – Secondary

Once Women Won the Vote / 5 May – 30 September 2018

General Resources

Activity Sheet - Primary and Secondary

Lesson Plans and Activities

Paola Balla
# Activity Sheet – Primary
#Lesson Plan – Secondary

Pat Bigham
#Activity – Secondary
#CFA Fact Sheet – Secondary

Joan Kirner
#Activity – Primary
#Lesson Plan – Secondary

Val Lang
#Activity – Secondary

Halima Mohamed
#Activity – Primary
#Lesson Plan – Secondary

Brigitte Muir
#Activity – Primary
#Lesson Plan – Secondary

Alice Pung
#Lesson plan – Secondary

Peta Searle
#Lesson Plan – Secondary
#See Think Wonder – Secondary
#Women and Sport Activity – Secondary
#Women and Sport - Teacher Key – Secondary

Gwyneth Wisewould
#Activity – Primary
#Lesson Plan – Secondary

Women of the Land / 13 October – 26 November 2017

General Resources

Victorian Curriculum Links - Primary and Secondary
Scavenger Hunt - Primary
Post-visit reflection - Primary
Post-visit reflection - Secondary
Overview and Lesson Plan - Secondary

Lesson Plans and Activities

Pat Bigham
# Lesson plan – Secondary
# CFA Fact Sheet – Secondary

Maisie Carr (nee Fawcett)
# Lesson plan – Secondary
# Word Search Activity – Primary

Aunty Fay Carter
# Lesson Plan – Secondary

Val Lang
# Lesson Plan – Secondary

Her Place: Women of Influence / 13 August – 3 September 2017

General Resources

Victorian Curriculum links
Primary Education Activities
Primary Scavenger Hunt

Lesson Plans and Activities

Pat Bigham
# Lesson Plan - Secondary
# CFA Fact Sheet – Secondary

Aunty Fay Carter
# Lesson Plan – Secondary

Joan Kirner
# Activity Sheet – Primary
#Lesson Plan – Secondary

Val Lang
# Lesson Plan – Secondary

Deborah Lawrie
# Lesson Plan – Secondary

Florence McKenzie
# Lesson Plan – Secondary

Halima Mohamed
# Activity Sheet – Primary
# Lesson Plan – Secondary

Brigitte Muir
# Activity Sheet – Primary
# Lesson Plan – Secondary

Peta Searle
# Lesson Plan – Secondary
# Women and Sport Fact and Myth Activity – Secondary
# Teacher Answer Key – Secondary
# See, Think, Wonder Visual Thinking Activity – Secondary

Gweneth Wisewould
# Activity Sheet – Primary
# Lesson Plan – Secondary

Her Place: Remarkable Women / 24 May – 18 June 2017

PRIMARY

General Resources
Overview & Lesson Plans
Scavenger Hunt sheet
Post-Visit Reflection
Victorian Curriculum links

Activities
Susan Alberti – Activity
Paola Balla – Activity
Maisie Carr (nee Fawcett) – Activity
Joan Kirner – Activity
Halima Mohamed – Activity
Brigitte Muir – Activity
Peta Searle – Activity
Diane Wright – Activity

SECONDARY

General Resources
Scavenger Hunt sheet
Post-Visit Reflection
Victorian Curriculum links

Lesson Plans and Activities

Susan Alberti
# Lesson Plan
# Activity

Paola Balla
#Lesson Plan

Pat Bigham
#Lesson Plan
#CFA Fact Sheet

Maisie Carr (nee Fawcett)
Lesson Plan

Joan Kirner
#Lesson Plan

Val Lang
#Lesson Plan

Halima Mohamed
#Lesson Plan

Brigitte Muir
#Lesson Plan

Peta Searle
#Lesson Plan
#Women and Sport Fact and Myth Activity
#Teacher Answer Key
#See, Think, Wonder Visual Thinking Activity

Her Place: Women in the West / 7–31 March 2017

General Resources

Activity Sheet - Primary
Scavenger Hunt - Primary
Scavenger Hunt - Secondary
Post-visit reflection - Primary
Post-visit reflection - Secondary
Victorian Curriculum links - Primary and Secondary

Lesson Plans and Activities (Secondary)

Susan Alberti
# Lesson plan
# Visual Activity

Paola Balla
# Lesson plan

Ruth Crow
# Lesson plan
Podcast - Ruth Crow
Commissioned by Arts House (2016).

Maisie Carr (nee Fawcett)
# Lesson Plan

Kerry Greenwood
# Lesson plan

Joan Kirner
# Lesson plan

Melba Marginson
# Lesson plan

Halima Mohamed
# Lesson plan

Alice Pung
# Lesson plan

Peta Searle
# Lesson plan
# Women and Sport Fact and Myth Activity
# Teacher Answer Key
# See, Think, Wonder Visual Thinking Activity

Acknowledgement

These resources were developed by a group of Victorian teachers who make up the Her Place Women's Museum Education Group:

Briony O'Keeffe, Fitzroy High School (and Fitzroy High School Feminist Collective founder)
Kylie Oliver, educator and Australian Education Union activist
Ingrid Hildebrand, St Catherine's School
Jess Duncan, Derrimut Primary School
Lola Jennings-Edquist, East Reservoir Primary School.

We thank them all,

Barb Jennings, Her Place Board Member