HASS - Foundation Year

Events

• Our growing collection of Events can be used to illustrate changes in the way we have celebrated and commemorated events as a community over time

Map Search

• Use the Picture Ipswich Map Search to locate images of a street or locality familiar to students, this could be around the school or the street where they live

Photos

• Our Family Portraits collection can be used by to show students how families have changed over time, such as the number of children in a family

Places

• Picture Ipswich has collection hubs that cover all Ipswich suburbs and localities 
• As a class, explore content from images, written histories, videos, oral histories and more from your area
• If your area is underrepresented, we welcome new content 

School Activity Sheets

• My Family: For this activity, Foundation Year students are introduced to the concept of oral history. They will first complete a practice oral history with a classmate before interviewing a parent or grandparent. The questions focus on the adult's childhood memories. The oral history responses can be recorded in the space provided on the worksheet, or students can record their interviews with the aid of a smartphone.
• Family Tree: In this activity, Foundation Year students are introduced to the concept of Family Trees. Students are encouraged to create their own family tree.
• Grandparent / Genealogist Guest Speaker: Students are encouraged to write an invitation to a guest speaker (a grandparent of a student from their class, or a local genealogist) to come and share with them a special story about their family and why knowing family history is important to them. Students are then encouraged to write there own family history story.
• Where I Live: Foundation Year students, in this activity, will recreate their neighborhood.

Timelines

• Picture Ipswich is developing a number of timelines that could be used in class to demonstrate the sequence of events

These are just a few examples of how you could use Picture Ipswich in History classes for Prep students.  If you have further suggestions, please add them as a Recollection on this page.