Heritage at your Touch: McCrae Homestead

Heritage at Your Touch has been produced with composite classes in mind.

The program offers:

• a game environment using real spaces, video characters and artefacts
• over 150 PDF files containing information and images and questions about the families and their things
• meet 6 real characters like Governor La Trobe and George Gordon McCrae
  a full education kit with inquiry questions
• It was developed with the support of the Telematics Trust in partnership with the History Teachers Association of Australia (Victoria).Students can work individually or in groups, but we encourage teachers to complete aspects of their source as a whole class activity. This provides opportunity for students to pool their knowledge of the past and engage in deep, deductive thinking.

Made with the Support of the Telematics Trust and the History Teachers Association of Victoria

Curriculum

The Heritage at Your Touch Project (La Trobe’s Cottage) is specifically designed for level 5 students as it draws on a range of rich primary sources relating to the growth of the Victorian colonies during the nineteenth century. It can also be used by students in level 4 to support their understanding of the early contact between Europeans and Indigenous people.

It is equally well suited to helping students in level 6 research the movements, events and ideas that led to the Federation of Australia in 1901.