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Transport Heritage education programs
Let us take you on a journey back in time as you explore how transport has changed over the years. Whiteman Park’s own Revolutions Transport Museum, along with the Tractor and Motor Museums, will provide you with a wealth of knowledge about the features of transport and the important role it plays in our lives.
Enjoy a scenic trip on a vintage train or tram around Whiteman Park’s magnificent parklands – the perfect way to conclude your transport-themed excursion!
Bill and Beryl are going on a family picnic for their birthday and you can come too!
Step into Revolutions Transport Museum for a program that has been specifically designed to introduce Early Years students to the past in an easy, fun and play-based way! Students will start with a story about Bill and Beryl and their family from 1910, among objects from the past in the museum. Dressing up in historic costume, they then form their own ‘families’ to go on a picnic day out in the past. The class can climb aboard some real, historic modes of transport - including a horse and cart, train carriage and child-sized penny farthing - to travel to their imaginary picnic, complete with vintage props!
In this program, your students will:
✔ Identify similarities and differences between families.
✔ Compare life in the past and present.
✔ Identify how changes can be big and noticeable, or small and subtle.
✔ Pose questions about the past using unique sources, including museum objects, props and photographs.
| Year level | Pre-Primary and Year 1 |
| Cost | $6.00 per child |
| Availability | Monday to Friday |
| Duration | 75 minutes |
| WA Curriculum Links | HASS - History |
This program is delivered at Revolutions Transport Museum, an engaging exhibition of land transport heritage in Western Australia.
From cart to car rides, see the transformations in transport!
Join your guide from the year 1900 and go on a journey to explore the differences between ‘then’ and now, the past and present, horse carts and cars. This hands-on learning activity allows your students to examine real car parts from today and assist in harnessing a horse and cart from 1900. What comparisons will they make?
In this program, your Year 2 students will:
✔ Explore how transport technology and travel of the pass differs from what is used today.
✔ Compare and contrast modes of transport from the past and present.
✔ Have hands-on learning experience with real museum objects.
| Year level | Year 2 |
| Cost | $6.00 per child |
| Availability | Monday to Friday |
| Duration | 60 minutes |
| WA Curriculum Links | HASS – History: ACHASSK046 |
This program is delivered at Revolutions Transport Museum, an engaging exhibition of land transport heritage in Western Australia.
Transport is essential in our daily lives.
Why do we choose some forms of transport over others, and why does this change? Your students will explore our transport collection using games and stories to understand change and continuity over time. By learning to use the ‘look, link, imagine’ technique, they will make their own discoveries as they role-play with historic objects, dress up and props.
In this program, your Year 3 students will:
✔ Discover how transport has changed over time.
✔ Think about what is the same and what is different between
transport in the past and transport in the present.
✔ Learn how to explore historic objects.
| Year level | Year 3 |
| Cost | $6.00 per child |
| Availability | Monday to Friday |
| Duration | 60 minutes |
| WA Curriculum Links | HASS – History: ACHASSK062 |
This program is delivered at Revolutions Transport Museum, an engaging exhibition of land transport heritage in Western Australia.
Motorvation
From horse-drawn carts to the modern-day car, see the development of transport over time at the Motor Museum of Western Australia. Students will be exposed to the history of the motor vehicle – and the internal makings of a car!
- Suitable for Years 3 to 7
- Cost is $5.00 per child
- Available Monday to Wednesday (other days by arrangement)
- Duration is 60 minutes
- Not curriculum linked
Tractor Factor
In this tailor-made tour of the Tractor Museum, students can see, hear and smell the machinery that played such an important part in the early life of Western Australia. With an old cottage home display, your students will get a good appreciation of life in the early 1900s.
- Suitable for Pre-Primary to Year 12
- Cost is $4.00 per child
- Available Wednesdays and Fridays (other days by arrangement)
- Not curriculum linked
Vintage Train Rides
On Wednesdays and Thursdays, it’s all aboard for a delightful 6km train ride through Whiteman Park’s woodlands – can you spot a kangaroo?
Heritage Electric Tram Rides
On Tuesdays and Fridays, jump aboard a vintage electric tram for a rattling ride through Whiteman Park’s remnant farmland and native bushland to Mussel Pool and back.
Old Fashioned Picnic Day
Remember the ‘olden days’? We do! Bring your students to relive the fun and nostalgia of a good old-fashioned picnic day in the beautiful surrounds of Mussel Pool.
Sack and wheelbarrow races, egg and spoon contests, marbles, treasure hunts, skipping and more are available. We provide teachers with planning assistance and an activity pack full of all the old-fashioned game ideas, rules and props that you’ll need to know to create the most talked about excursion this year!
A great intergenerational program idea for the whole school. Download the ‘Old Fashioned Picnic Games’ Instruction Booklet.
Optional Extras
You can also incorporate the following options into your excursion program at Whiteman Park for no, or nominal, fees:
- Sports equipment hire
- Orienteering
- Bushwalking
- The Children’s Forest
- Sports court
- a BBQ picnic
- Playtime in the large, shaded playground.
If you would like some further information on any of our programs or would like to have our Education and Public Programs Officer come out to your school for a free information session, please call us on 9209 6000.