Teaching Heritage - Site investigations


	Go to the discussion forum to hear Carol Liston discuss an approach to site investigations.

	Extract from the Australian Heritage Commission’s ‘Investigating Heritage’ outlining the approach taken by a heritage worker in studying the background to a site and undertaking a survey in the field.

	Paulene Dowd and John Bailey conduct a site study of Observatory Hill with Year 9 students from Penshurst Girls High School.

	Mark Anderson and Paul Ashton present an approach to conducting a site study in the history text ‘Focus on Australian History’.

	Remo La Cava – Head Teacher Maths and School Archivist at Macarthur Girls High School – offers a host of ideas to generate interest in a school site.

	Diana Hambly offers some starting points in uncovering the history of a locality: walking; using the ‘Sands’ Suburban Directory’; and examining subdivision posters.

	Carol Liston gives an account of The Female Orphan School at Parramatta – now the University of Western Sydney Nepean campus – and highlights the influence of place on the orphanage and those associated with it.

	Eric Eklund discusses ways to read the past in a streetscape and emphasises the importance of the social and political elements of a street’s history.