Australia Meets The World
The National History Challenge is an exciting contest that encourages students to use research and inquiry-based learning to discover more about Australia and its past. Students are the historians, they can investigate their community, explore their own and their family's past, explore major events that have taught Australia, as a nation, new ideas or theories. The Challenge encourages inquiry based learning, the use of primary and secondary sources and offers a variety of presentation styles that can cater to individual learning styles.
National Trust Special Category
The National Trust is offering prizes in 2008 for the best research and presentation that addresses the theme: Australia's Heritage. Each state/territory winner will receive a prize of $100. The overall national winner will receive an extra $200 and attend the national presentation in Canberra plus have the opportunity of visiting some heritage sites within the ACT.
A criterion for the National Trust's special category, Australia's Heritage is that entrants must use National Trust resources: our libraries, documents, web-based resources or visit a property. Why not use one of the many National Trust's historic properties across South Australia as a source of inspiration and primary source material for this year's theme Australia Meets the World.
Ayers House: A Case Study?
Colonisation & Settlement
Ayers House is the built expression of Australia's encounter with British imperial expansion and colonisation. It reflects how the new colony was keen to meet the world on equal terms and emulate European standards and society's tastes, yet with its own distinctive architecture and design.
Telecommunications
Sir Henry Ayers was involved in the important advancement of international communications and during his Premiership saw the overland telegraph link Adelaide with the rest of the world.
Industry & Mining
As the Director of the Burra Burra Copper Mines, Sir Henry Ayers was directly involved in underpinning South Australia's economy and its expansion into international trading and exportation.
More information on the 2008 History Challenge can be found at: www.historychallenge.com.au and on the ACNT website: www.nationltrust.org.au or contact the Manager on 8223 1234 to find out more about how you can use Ayers House as a resource for the 2008 History Challenge.
