Immigration Stories
The WA Maritime Museum is the perfect location to bring Year 6 students as a stimulus to explore the stories of people who migrated to Australia. The Museum is located on Victoria Quay in historic Fremantle where many people disembarked ships to start the Australian part of their migration story.
Immigration Stories is a two-part 120-minute curriculum-linked package that immerses your students throughout our galleries. It assists teachers of Year 6 students with the following HASS focus questions:
- Why did they migrate to Australia and what were their stories and challenges? (ACHASSK136)
- How did they contribute to Australian society? (ACHASSK137)
About the Program
The WA Maritime Museum is the perfect location to bring Year 6 students as a stimulus to explore the stories of people who migrated to Australia. The Museum is located on Victoria Quay in historic Fremantle where many people disembarked ships to start the Australian part of their migration story.
Immigration Stories is a two-part 120-minute curriculum-linked package that immerses your students throughout our galleries. It assists teachers of Year 6 students with the following HASS focus questions:
- Why did they migrate to Australia and what were their stories and challenges? (ACHASSK136)
- How did they contribute to Australian society? (ACHASSK137)
Further Infomation
Students participating in the two-part 120min program (one or two classes) will:
Part A: Interactive Gallery Tour (Ground floor of the WA Maritime Museum)
- Take part in an interactive gallery tour that follows the life of an Italian fishing migrant who came to Fremantle in the early 1900s
- Recreate some of the challenges and achievements of this person’s life in the context of migration to Western Australia
- Discuss how individuals and groups such as the Italian fishing migrants have shaped Fremantle and Western Australia in the past and today
- This part is led by a Museum Educator
Part B: Object Exploration (Level One of the WA Maritime Museum)
- Read the stories of five migrants who have come to Western Australia between 1891 and 1968
- Handle a range of objects that are linked to the various stages of each person’s migration story
- Discuss the motivations for coming, challenges, achievements and contributions of each migrant
- See gallery artefacts that come from or link to migrants who came to WA
- Reflect on the importance of using a range of sources when examining the past
- This part is led by a Museum Educator
An optional third part is also available for students participating in the two-part program. For those schools bringing three classes, Part C is incorporated into a 180-minute three-way rotation program. Students in this part will:
Part C: Self-Guided Precinct Walking Trail (Outside the WA Maritime Museum & Victoria Quay)
- Participate in a self-guided precinct walking trail linked to Immigration Stories
- Find some of the migrants featured in Immigration Stories on the Welcome Walls
- Consider the changes that have occurred in the Harbour and the surrounding landscape
- Visit statues linked to CY O’Connor and migration to Fremantle and reflect on why they are there
- Download the trail via the button below and print one per group leader
- As Victoria Quay is part of Fremantle Ports you can view their emergency plan here
- This part is led by your group leaders
Objectives
For further information on learning outcomes and objectives, as well as all other information, please send an enquiry below.