Explore the growing digital archive of deaf history in Australia.
Learning Sequence: A Day in the Life of a School
Learning Area: Auslan (L1 pathway), Visual Arts
Year Level(s): Foundation
Overview

Students view and discuss two images ‘A Visit to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, St. Kilda Road’ and South Australian Institution Collage to gain information about a school at a particular time. They then create a similar art work based on their own school and share their artwork with the class, assessing their peers.

Suggested Activities
Viewing the source images

Students look at pictures of their school and old schools for deaf children.

Sources
Creating your own artwork

Students create their own artwork of school life.

Presenting your own artwork

Students present their own artwork of school life.

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Welcome to the Deaf History Collections

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of Country throughout Australia and pay our respects to Elders past and present. We extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visitors to our site, recognising the long, rich, complex and unjustly disregarded histories of First Nations peoples in Australia.
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