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The South Australian Maritime Museum invites students to visit the museum and learn about the early European explorers that chartered the South Australian coast.

Students will explore the concepts of discovery, exploration, maritime history, cause and effect, perspectives, significance and life at sea.

Suitability: Years 4 - 10

Cost:  $5 per student (without cruise)

             $7 with a Port River cruise

Availability: Monday - Friday

Students will:

• Participate in a workshop to examine the skills, attitudes and attributes that make a successful explorer
• Develop thinking skills by engaging with the Sea Chest Secret exhibition from Questacon: The National Science Centre
• Solve scientific puzzles to gather clues about the identity of a mystery explorer piecing together clues about a diary that has been washed ashore in a sea chest
• Climb the historic lighthouse for a birds eye view of the Port River and vessels
• View the South Australian Maritime Museum exhibits

Curriculum Outcomes:

Students will:

• Use historical objects to develop an understanding of significant explorers who chartered the South Australian coast
• Develop an understanding of how European exploration effected the lives of Aboriginal people  
• Describe the positive and negative experiences of these early explorers from different perspectives
• Describe motivating factors that lead to exploration
• Identify the skills and attributes of a successful explorer

Australian Curriculum: History

Key questions (Year 4) :

1.    Why do journeys of exploration occur?

2.    Why did the Europeans explore South Australia?

3.    What was the nature and consequence of contact between Aboriginal people and early explorers?

General Capabilities:

Literacy (listening, reading, viewing and speaking)

Numeracy (organise and interpret historical events and developments, analyses of data to make meaning of the past, mapping)

Critical and creative thinking (ask questions, locate and select information, develop interpretations, exploring the past)

Ethical behaviour (principles, values and virtues, acting with moral integrity, acting with regard for others, critically exploring the character traits, actions and motivations of early South Australian explorers)

Personal and social competence (relationships between individuals)

Intercultural understanding (perspectives, beliefs and values of people, past and present)

Cross Curriculum Priorities:

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

Historical skills and understandings:

Chronology, terms and concepts:         Sequence historical people and events

                                                                    Use and understand historical terms

Historical questions and research:       Pose a range of questions about the past

Analysis and use of sources:                Locate relevant information from sources provided

Perspectives and interpretations:         Identify different points of view

Explanation and communication:        Use a range of communication forms