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LANGUAGE TRAILS

Teachers in Victoria have contributed to the development of various resources for educational use.

Heritage Trail Folder: Westgarthtown and the Tatura Family Internment Camp of WWII.
The trails contain information and resources for use in classrooms and on excursions to the sites. The Heritage Trail was A DET initiative in cooperation with the AGTV and sent to all libraries of schools teaching German. Copies are also available to borrow from the Goethe-Institut Resource Centres across Victoria.

Westgarthtown in Thomastown http://www.westgarthtown.org.au/

Tatura Irrigation & World War II Camps Museum http://www.taturamuseum.org.au/

Märchen Trail
This CD-ROM kit has comprehensive classroom resources for the topic of ‘Märchen’ including trails for students to complete in English and German for an excursion to the Fairy Park in Anakie, Victoria. Developed by the Geelong Network and available for purchase from the AGTV Goethe Boutique.

Fairy Park in Anakie: http://www.fairypark.com/

See also the online global classroom project: The German Fairytale Road http://www.bayswaterps.vic.edu.au/lote/maerchen/project.htm

Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne http://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/
This educational kit has resources in German for students when visiting the gardens, sent to government schools and available to borrow from Goethe-Institut Resource Centres. The Botanic Gardens were designed by Baron Ferdinand von Müller, the Victorian Government Botanist from 1853 and for a time Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens. Born at Rostock, educated at the University of Kiel, arrived in Australia in 1848, died in Melbourne in 1896.

Information about von Müller can be viewed at the website: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050353b.htm

National Gallery of Victoria
Teachers developed a resource kit for the National Gallery in Melbourne based on artworks in the gallery's collection by German-speaking artists including Wolfgang Sievers. The kits contain images of the works covered and were sent to all school libraries and are available in the GI Resource Centres.

A second CD-ROM resource was produced by the Goethe-Institut in Melbourne with an emphasis on cross-curricular activities. Artworks from the National Gallery are all European and include not only paintings, but also some of the other mediums in the gallery's collection. Copies are available from the National Gallery in conjunction with professional learning which introduced the resource kit.

NGV Ian Potter Gallery - Federation Square
The AGTV Committee developed a selection of resources on selected Australian artists with a German-speaking heritage featured at the Ian Potter Gallery.
NGV Ian Potter Gallery Trail

Visits to the galleries can be arranged: Email education.schoolprograms@ngv.vic.gov.au

Sandridge Bridge Trail - Southbank
The AGTV Committee developed a trail for students to discover the history of German-speaking migrants to Victoria. Located across the Yarra connecting Southbank & Flinders Walk, west of Princess Bridge.
Sandridge Bridge Student Trail
Sandridge Bridge Teachers Info & Lösungen

Download a fact sheet http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/info.cfm?top=192&pa=1504&pg=3135

General Information about the Sandridge Bridge project:
I n 2006, the Australians’ History initiative was completed on the newly refurbished Sandridge Rail bridge. This historic bridge has been transformed into a pedestrian and bike path, linking the north and south banks of the Yarra. The Australians’ History initiative, located on the bridge, records the history of Victoria’s and

Australia

’s growth on a series of glass panels and interactive electronic touch screen. The glass panels provide details of the original Indigenous inhabitants, and on all immigrant nations and peoples who have helped shape the diverse society of modern Victoria.

There are 128 glass panels in total, and 114 are dedicated to information on migration from specific nations, from Afghanistan to

Zimbabwe

. In addition to the 128 glass panels, Australians’ History includes six interactive electronic touch screens, which provide visitors access to additional Indigenous and immigration data, including information on the historic Sandridge bridge, source country images, and print outs of the country information from the glass panels.

The Australians' History Project is located on the Yarra River accessible from the north (adjacent to Flinders Street Station) or South Bank (between Crown Casino and Freshwater Place). The Glass Panel each immigrant nation can be downloaded and printed as a PDF. Simply select a country from the pull down menu to begin your download. The link is http://www.australianshistory.org.au/glass_panels.htm. The panels feature information such as place of origin, dates and reasons for arrival, numbers for both Australia and Victoria and languages spoken. The map clearly shows where the country is located.

Queen Victoria Market - Melbourne http://www.qvm.com.au/
Discover the culinary offerings with this trail in German originally produced by Pauline Rogan.
Queen Victoria Market Trail

Bendigo City Language Trail
Discover the German-speaking heritage of Bendigo with trails developed for Years 9 and 10 students of German. Available in Goethe-Institut Resource Centres.

Melbourne Zoo
A language trail for German was developed for the Melbourne Zoo. Contact the Zoo for details: http://www.zoo.org.au/education/

Language Trails in Australia
A list collated by the Network of Australian Teachers of German (NATG) http://www.ausdaf.edu.au/lang.htm

RESOURCES

HERITAGE

Schwerkolt Cottage in Mitcham, Victoria: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ndhsinc/museum.html

Schramm's Cottage in Doncaster, Victoria: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dthsoc/cottage1.html

Wendish Heritage Society Early settlers to Australia who shared close ties with the German-speaking settlers and whose identity became linked to German: http://wendishheritage.org.au/

Ebenezer Mission
Moravian missionaries travelled from Germany in the 1850s to establish Ebenezer Mission in the Wimmera.

http://www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/ebenezer

German Australia
This comprehensive website about the German-speaking heritage of Australia is collated by D.Nutting: http://www.germanaustralia.com

The contribution of German-Australian community to the Cultural Life of Australia
A global classroom project: http://www.germanlinx.vic.edu.au/deutsch/index.htm

FILMS

For information about German films and screenings in Australia (incl.TV): http://www.goethe.de/ins/au/lp/prj/flm/enindex.htm

Information to support the study of selected German Films: http://www.bpb.de/publikationen/SNA3WX,0,0,Filmhefte.html

Goethe-Institut Library
The library at the Goethe-Institut in Melbourne has many films and videos for borrowing.
Location: 1st Floor, 448 St.Kilda Road, Melbourne Ph: 9864 8999 Email: info@melbourne.goethe.org

Goethe-Institut Resource Centres in each AGTV Network include an extensive collection of visual media for free borrowing by teachers. To find your local Resource Centre CLICK HERE.

SPORT

‘Sport in Deutschland und Australien – ein Vergleich’
A resource package in German incl. video, audio-cassette and resource book sent to school libraries and available to borrow from the Goethe-Institut Resource Centres.

Soccer in Australia Resources developed for the World Cup 2006 in Germany but still useful for classrooms today incl. ideas on how to teach German with football: http://www.ausdaf.edu.au/fussball2006/

Australian Rules Football in Europe
http://www.australian-football.eu/
Australian Football League Germany
http://www.aflg.de/
Vienna Kangaroos
http://www.vienna-kangaroos.at.tt/

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