Kid Curator and the Hawker Van

Year 4

Geography – The importance of environments, including natural vegetation, to animals and people (ACHASSK088)

Maths – Solve problems involving purchases and the calculation of change to the nearest five cents with and without digital technologies (ACMNA080)

Year 5

Geography – The influence of people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, on the environmental characteristics of Australian places (ACHASSK112)

Economic/business – Types of resources (natural, human, capital) and the ways societies use them to satisfy the needs and wants of present and future generations (ACHASSK120)

Math – Find unknown quantities in number sentences involving multiplication and division and identify equivalent number sentences involving multiplication and division (ACMNA121)

Year 6

Economic/business – The effect that consumer and financial decisions can have on the individual, the broader community and the environment (ACHASSK150), The reasons businesses exist and the different ways they provide goods and services (ACHASSK151)

Maths – Select and apply efficient mental and written strategies and appropriate digital technologies to solve problems involving all four operations with whole numbers (ACMNA123)

Year 4

Geography – the importance of environments, including natural vegetation and water sources, to people and animals in Australia and on another continent (AC9HS4K05)

Math – use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving additive and multiplicative situations including financial contexts; formulate the problems using number sentences and choose efficient calculation strategies, using digital tools where appropriate; interpret and communicate solutions in terms of the situation (AC9M4N08)

Year 5

Geography – the influence of people, including First Nations Australians and people in other countries, on the characteristics of a place (AC9HS5K04)

Economics and Business – types of resources, including natural, human and capital, and how they satisfy needs and wants (AC9HS5K08)

Maths – use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving additive and multiplicative situations including financial contexts; formulate the problems, choosing operations and efficient calculation strategies, using digital tools where appropriate; interpret and communicate solutions in terms of the situation (AC9M5N09)

Year 6

Economics and Business – influences on consumer choices and strategies that can be used to help make informed personal consumer and financial choices (AC9HS6K08)

Maths – use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving natural and rational numbers and percentages, including in financial contexts; formulate the problems, choosing operations and efficient calculation strategies, and using digital tools where appropriate; interpret and communicate solutions in terms of the situation, justifying the choices made (AC9M6N09)

Find our dedicated teaching resource and activity sheet here:

Kid Curator and the Hawker Van – Teaching Resource

Before watching:

• What do you think a hawker van is?
• How do remote South Australians get the supplies they need to live? How do you think this has changed over the past 100 years?
• Do people use the same everyday items today as they did in the past? What don’t we use any more?

After watching:

• What is a consumable?
• How do you think Monsoor chose what to stock in his Van?
• How did the video describe the lifestyle of the Adnyamathanha people? How was it different from others in remote communities?
• What items would sell the best today if someone was to take a Hawker Van for a sales expedition?

This video is part of a series, created as a collaboration between Michael Mills and the History Trust of South Australia. The Kid Curator series explores local South Australian history through historical objects. The videos provide a curatorial description of the object and period in history blended with narrative-based re-enactments. Each video focuses on an object from the History Trust of South Australia’s State History Collection and provides differing point of view on the history of the object in question. View the video and use the dedicated education resource for a cross curricular exploration of the history of South Australia.

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