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EARLY YEARSNATIONAL WOOL MUSEUM: TEACHER RESOURCE

Teacher Resource

EARLY YEARS


About the ProgramGet ready to share an adventure with some furry travel companion and travel through the Museum searching for stories of early settlers in our region, from farmers to photographers, inventors and mayors. The visit will conclude with making an old-time toy to take home.

The National Wool MuseumAt the National Wool Museum, you will discover why fleece from Australia's sheep was at the heart of our economy for nearly 200 years. Since the arrival of sheep with the First Fleet in 1788, the wool industry has dominated our economy, our agriculture and our reputation as a quality wool-growing nation throughout the world. Geelong is a city synonymous with wool and the wool industry – sheep farming began here in 1835 and the first of

many woollen mills opened here in 1868. For many years the city was known as the 'wool centre of the world'. Two hundred years later, in 1988, the National Wool Museum was established as Australia’s only comprehensive museum of wool. Our core galleries include information, displays and hands-on activities following wool from the sheep’s back to the clothes rack. Visitors see, hear, smell, and feel the wool as it changes from raw fleece to become a finished fabric. They can explore the re-created homes of a shearer and mill worker from days past. Visitors also have the opportunity to see our 1910 Axminster Gripper Carpet Loom or the 1960s Komet Knitter in operation. As well as telling the Australian story of wool, the Museum has two temporary exhibition galleries that deliver an exciting annual program of changing exhibitions. Every year the Museum hosts exhibitions brought in from some of Australia’s leading cultural institutions on topics including dinosaurs, maritime discoveries, toys, dangerous animals and outer space. These are supplemented by Geelong-focused exhibitions produced in-house and telling stories that are unique to this region, and textile exhibitions.

Facilities

Refer to the National Wool Museum’s website to find information regarding your visit: www.nwm.vic.gov.au

For groups visiting the Museum, a free bus park is available directly in front of the Museum on Moorabool Street. The wool galleries are located on Level One and are accessed by a gentle ramp. A wheelchair is available on-site to borrow free of charge.

All spaces are accessed by ramps. Each gallery includes sounds, smells, and items to handle that may stimulate different responses. In the level one galleries where wool or fabric is on open display it is there to be handled. Please touch and enjoy!

Bus park / group entrance

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Museum MannersPlease share this information with all supervisors assisting with your excursion and with your students before arriving at the Museum.

1. Use your walking feet. We want to make sure both you and our artifacts stay safe.

2. Use your indoor voice. We want everyone to be able to hear and interact during the visit, including our other visitors.

3. Touch only what you are invited to touch. Your Museum Leader will tell you when it is okay to handle an object or display.

4. Stay with the group. We don’t want you to miss out on anything.

5. No food or drink in the galleries (this includes lollies and chewing gum). If you would like to have a snack or lunch break during or after your program please speak to our booking officer about options.

6. Photographs, personal recordings, and video are permitted in the galleries unless your leader tells you otherwise (some travelling exhibitions may have special restrictions).


Key Words

BALEA bag of wool. Bales weigh approximately 172kg each.

BLADESHand shears used by shearers before the introduction of machine driven shears.

BLOW A single sweeping cut of fleece.

BOARDThe floor along the wall of the shearing shed where the sheep are shorn.

CARDING Untangling of wool fibres.

CATCHING PENSmall yards or pens inside the shearing shed. Used to pen sheep before shearing.

CHUTEThe opening next to each shearer where the sheep exit out to the counting-out pens.

CLASSERThe person who sorts the shorn wool into type and micron count.

COMBThe cutting blades that attach to a shearing handpiece.

COMBINGRemoving short wool fibres, blending long wool fibres.

COUNTING OUT PEN

Pens situated outside of the shearing shed which hold each shearers shorn sheep. The shed boss counts the shorn sheep and adds them to the shearers tally.

DUNGASShearers pants, double layer at the front to avoid prickles.

EWE An adult female sheep.

GILLING Drawing out and evening up wool fibres.

HANDPIECE Tool that shearers use to shear sheep.

HARNESSA sprung device hung from the shearing shed roof which helps support the shearers back while shearing.


HOGGETAlso known as a two-tooth. A sheep that is one year old.

JUMBUCKAn early term for a sheep usually used by shepherds and shearers.

KNITTINGForming a single yarn into fabric of interlocking loops.

LONG BLOWThe long sweeping cuts the shearer takes across the first side and back of the sheep while being shorn.

MOCCASINFootwear shearers made, usually made from felt or sheepskin.

MILL Wool processing factory.

PIONEERAn explorer, or one who moves into a new area or field.

PRESS The machine used to press wool into bales.

RAM An adult male sheep.

SETTLER A person who settles in a newly developed country.

SKIRTING TABLEThe table onto which fleece is thrown to begin sorting and classing.

SPINNING Twisting wool into a yarn.

SQUATTER A person who lives on land they do not own or rent.

TAR BOYThe young shed hand whose job it was to put Stockholm Tar onto the wounds of badly cut sheep.

TEXTILE Woven or knitted fabric.

WEAVINGInterlacing of two yarns, each at right angles to each other.


Classroom Activities

Activity 1: Read Aloud

Concept: Introduce students to new words they will hear at the Museum.

Suggested Books: Charlie Needs A Cloak, by Tomie dePaola

Wool Gathering: A Sheep Family Reunion, by Lisa Wheeler

Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep: A Yarn About Wool, Teri Sloat

Sherman the Sheep, Kevin Kiser

Neville the sheep, Rebecca Johnson

Pete the Sheep, Jackie French

The Silly Sheepdog, Heather Amery & Stephen Cartright

Where is the Green Sheep?, Mem Fox & Judy Horacek

Jimmy Roo, Conny Fechner

Activity 2: Sheep family portrait

Concept: Introduce students to new words they will hear at the Museum – ram, ewe, lamb.

Materials: Sheep family template for each student (p. 12) Colouring materials (crayons, markers, etc)

Directions:1. Discuss the names of different family members – mom, dad,

brother, sister, baby, etc. We have different words for ‘boy’ and ‘girl,’ and different words for older and younger family members. What words could we use for sheep that are boys, girls, babies, etc?

2. Distribute sheep family template to students. Colour a mom, dad, and baby sheep – then identify each with the right word.

Activity 3: Dress the shearer

Concept: Introduce children to the link between occupation and clothing.

Materials: Shearer template for each student (p. 8) Colouring materials (crayons, markers, etc) Scissors


Glue sticks

Directions:1. Discuss what people do and how they are dressed. For

example, a fireman and cook do not dress the same. Why do different people wear different clothes?

2. Look at the pictures of the shearer (pp.9-11). He wears different shoes (moccasins) to keep his feet flat on the floor and help him not to slip. He wears trousers with two layers of fabric on the front to protect his legs. He wears a singlet, because it is hot work, with a longer tail to cover his back when he bends over.

3. Distribute character template to each child.

4. Colour and decorate your character and their clothes.

5. Cut and paste the clothing in the correct spot.

Optional extra: Cut out the shearing pictures and try to put them in order

Activity 4: Sorting Laundry

Concept: Introduce students to wool as a material, develop their describing vocabulary, and build sorting skills.

Materials: Selection of fabrics of different types

Word flash cards

Clothes line and pegs

Directions:1. Talk about how children think wool is used – like warm jumpers, hats,

and scarves. Consider, are all your clothes made of wool? Do they all feel the same?

2. Explore your classroom feeling different textile surfaces (like carpets, curtains, tablecloths, jackets, clothes, towels, etc).

3. What sort of words can be used to describe these materials (soft/hard/smooth/bumpy/fluffy/warm/cold/etc)?

4. Bring out a laundry basket full of different scraps of materials. Have children explore feeling the different fabrics

5. Sort the laundry. Encourage children to pile materials together that feel the same.

6. Hang your sorted laundry on a line, with a big word to describe the feel of each group.


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Museum Visit

Where is the Green Sheep

Perfect for your first visit to the Museum! Follow the characters from Mem Fox and Julie Horacek’s popular children’s book Where is the Green Sheep? through the galleries. Fill up Bath Sheep’s bath, make Up Sheep go up and Down Sheep fall down, and more. Then make your own pompom sheep to take home.

Connection ideas: literacy, movement, simple machines, sorting

I Spy (I hear, I smell, I feel)

Get to know the Museum from a whole new perspective as you feel, listen, and smell your way through the galleries. Students will ‘collect’ different sensory experiences as they are guided through the galleries with crayon rubbings, listening exercises and movement activities. They will finish up making their own piece of felt to take home.

Connection ideas: sensory play, movement, coordination

My Geelong

Let’s travel through time. Would you walk for 2000km? What happens in the big boiling down pot? We’re going on a hunt through the Museum to meet stories of early settlers in our region, from farmers to photographers, inventors to mayors. The visit will conclude with making an old-time toy to take home.

Connection ideas: understanding historic time, storytelling, occupations, old and new

Visit www.nwm.vic.gov.au for themed programs and special events.

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Resources

Australian Wool Innovation (awi). www.wool.com

De Vries, Susanna (2009). Females on the Fatal Shore: Australia’s Brave Pioneers. Brisbane, QLD: Pirgoss Press. (available from Geelong Regional Library)

Greenwood, Barbara (1994), A Pioneer Story: The Daily Life of a Canadian Family in 1840. Toronto, ON: Kids Can Press Ltd.

Leeder, John D. (1984). Wool: Nature’s Wonder Fibre. VIC, Australia: Australasian Textiles Publishers.

Massy, Charles (2011). Breaking the Sheep’s Back. QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press.

Nicholson, John (2008). Wool, Wagons and Clipper Ships. Crows Nest, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd. (Teachers notes available from www.allenandunwin.com/_uploads/BookPdf/TeachersNotes/9781741751987.pdf)

Ward, Bruce (n.d.) Woolly threads not Woolly Thoughts. CSIRO: Wool Technology.

Woldendorp, Richard (2003). Wool: The Australian Story. Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Press.

School to Industry Links: National Pack (collaborative project managed by the University of Tasmania)http://www.woolwise.com/School_Links/Science%20Adventures%20with%20Igor.html Activities focus on science content and inquiry-based science skills.

http://www.woolwise.com/resources.htmlGeneral list of wool-related online educational resources.

http://www.woolwise.com/resources.html

http://www.woolwise.com/School_Links/Science%20Adventures%20with%20Igor.html

http://www.woolwise.com/School_Links/Science%20Adventures%20with%20Igor.html

http://www.allenandunwin.com/_uploads/BookPdf/TeachersNotes/9781741751987.pdf

http://www.allenandunwin.com/_uploads/BookPdf/TeachersNotes/9781741751987.pdf

http://www.wool.com/

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