Your students can enjoy one of our facilitated education programs at the Old Melbourne Gaol, Polly Woodside Tall Ship, Rippon Lea mansion, Como house or McCrae homestead.
We offer programs that cover a range of discipline areas from history and humanities to maths and geography. See below for more information about program content, curriculum links and making bookings or download our program guide to all Trust Education programs.
Can’t make it to one of our properties? To support our teachers and students operating through distance education we have created a range of interactive online learning resources and programs. These include:
For more information on digital programs, contact us at education@nattrust.com.au or phone (03) 9656 9889.
Simply fill in our online booking form with your details to make a booking request
Students experience life in the 1840’s for the Bunurong people and the McCrae family from a youth’s perspective on the Mornington Peninsula pioneer property.
Try your hand as a real Able Seaman from the 19th Century and learn the ropes. Learn about the hardship for early settlers aboard a ship.
With four activities over a full day, students will really get an idea of Now and Then in the context of an early local Melbourne family and their celebrations in the distant past.
Learn about life in the Grand Mansion for those that lived there and those that worked there over the last 150 years.
Examine Melbourne's early history, the story of the goldfields and come face-to-face with Ned Kelly.
Re-enact a Court Room trial of the Ned Kelly or Elizabeth Scott historic crime cases
Let the past come to your classroom and give your students a real experience with Mrs Sargood who can explain what past life was like first hand and give lessons in copper plate hand writing.
Choose from 5 trials including contemporary trials like Respect Me and Culpable Driving
You can now select from four tours that explore Melbourne's social history from a variety of perspectives.
Experience the legal process first hand with our Charge Sergeants.
Aboard the Polly Woodside, discover what it took to survive a sea voyage in the nineteenth century.
Problem solve your way through the life of an Able Bodied Seaman. An ability to manage maths was essential to survival at sea.
Rippon Lea is an ideal place for students to undertake a fieldwork for VCE Geography Unit 2 - Tourism. The fieldwork is now available as a virtual resource for teachers and students.
Visit one of our historic properties for a guided house tour and to learn more about local stories, families and how Melbourne used to be - great for adult learning and ESL groups.
Re-enact a court trial to learn more about the legal system during the time of Ned Kelly or Elizabeth Scott
Let one of our experienced guides teach your students more about this historic site and the inmates who once stayed here.
Allow our police sergeant to show your students what it was like to be processed for a crime before being sent to court
Simply fill in our online booking form with your details to make a booking request
Students gained an insight into Melbourne's criminal past and what it would have been like to be a convicted criminal and the conditions that they faced. The court room drama gave students a real-life experience about what it would be like if that situation occurred.
