Kids in Qurantine

Kids in quarantine takes students on a walking adventure through the Quarantine Station. Students compare the past with the present as they adopt a persona of a first, second or third class passenger. Using these personas students begin at the wharf where they visit the steam ship cabins in our Visitor Centre, they then follow the route taken by passengers when quarantined. At each location students are involved in an activity that allows them to compare what life was like 100 years ago to today and are challenged to think about what they would like the world to be like tomorrow.

Buildings visited include the disinfecting showers, autoclaves, hospital, morgue, Steerage precinct and Third Class dining room.

details

• Suitable for Stages 1 & 2
• Subject area HSIE & Science
• Duration 2 hours
• Minimum students 25
• Maximum students 80
• Price per student $19

ghost boy

Inspired by the book of the same name written by Felicity Pulman, Ghost Boy the experience brings the book to life.

Ghost Boy takes students on a journey through the Quarantine Station during which they learn first hand about the differences between Tads world of the 1880s smallpox epidemic, and their world (Froggy's).

Students visit the key locations discussed in the book in which they participate in a number of activities through which they are challenged to think about how things have changed from Tads time to theirs with relation to multiculturalism, class definition and medical technologies.

Download the Teachers kit [pdf]

Click on the book to go to Felicity Pulman's website

details

• Suitable for Stages 2 & 3
• Subject area HSIE, English & PDHPE
• Duration 2 hours
• Minimum students 20
• Maximum students 100
• Price per student $15

40 days for schools

The original length of time people were supposed to be quarantined for was 40 days. Our 40 Days interactive experience asks the question, 'What would happen if you were quarantined tomorrow?'

40 Days is like a board game that covers the whole of Q Station's incredible site. Students are presented with a contemporary health scenario then challenged to consider the question 'what would you do?'. In order to answer this they participate in a number of site specific interactive's based on the quarantine processes undertaken by the passengers of the first ship quarantined for Spanish Influenza, the Niagara.

Each student is given an identity of a former passenger from the Niagara or a member of the Stations staff. It is through their perspective that the students explore the Station.

This program allows a direct comparison between medical technologies of 1918 and the present, allows students to consider the development in communication technologies, compare the class system and the differences in freedoms expected by citizens today all whilst flexing their dramatic abilities.

details

• Suitable for Stages 3, 4 & 5
• Subject area HSIE, PDHPE, Science, Drama, History
• Duration 2 hours
• Minimum students 24
• Maximum students 80
• Price per student $20

quarantine station site study

available from mid August 2008

The Quarantine Station Site Study is a full or half day education program for Year 9-10 students. By observing the built and natural environments, and examining historical photographs, maps and primary and secondary source documents, students explore the way that the Quarantine Station has changed from the days of Aboriginal occupation to the present.

The program consists of three components, a guide lead site walk, excerpt from our immersion theatre experience Defiance and interpretation workshop.

The program gives students the opportunity to develop an understanding of the history of the site in the context of the specific history of Sydney and the political, scientific and social developments of Australia. After becoming familiar with the site, its history and the ways that it has been interpreted, students undertake a workshop during which they are challenged to place the history of the Station in context for themselves and create their own interpretation of the site through a medium of their choice.

The Station's site study provides students with the opportunity to further develop their historical skills with an emphasis on analysis and use of sources, research, interpretation and communication.

The program can be run as a full or half day experience. Teachers can choose from one of these 3 options.

the search for better health

available from September 2008

The Search for Better Health is an education program that has been designed to assist in the teaching of the HSC Biology unit 'Search for Better Health'. Using the Quarantine Station as a case study students are given the opportunity to further their understanding of the causes of disease and investigate the advances in medical technology as reflected in the Stations facilities.

details

• Suitable for Stage 6
• Subject area HSC Biology
• Duration 2 hours
• Minimum students 20
• Maximum students 100
• Price per student $16

quarantine station unwrapped

available from November 2008

Quarantine Station Unwrapped is an investigation of the Station's historical layers from an archaeological perspective. Students undertake a site tour during which they are introduced to a variety of archaeological resources at the Station ranging from the inscriptions on the sandstone escarpment in the wharf precinct to moveable heritage collection, standing buildings, demolished buildings and landscape features. Throughout their walk guide lead walk students explore how these archaeological resources are being conserved, adapted, used or interpreted.

At the end of the walk students are challenged to come up with their own archaeological questions and devise their own investigation to be answered with the sources provided to them.

This program can be adapted for students from Stage 1 through to Stage 6, please contact our Education Coordinator for more information.

details

• Suitable for Stages 1-6
• Subject area History
• Duration 2 hours
• Minimum students 20
• Maximum students 50
• Price per student $20