How many Port Fairy defining moments can you find?
To answer this question you will have to complete some activities to find out why these defining moments were so important. Once you have completed all of the challenges you will be able to investigate the defining moments in your own local community.
Let's start by watching a video of the town. See if you can note any defining moments. Click ‘Show Questions’ to read the questions at any time.
What did you see evidence of?
What can a community tell us about itself?
Click on all of the ‘hotspots’ to investigate some of the defining moments that have shaped this community’s past and present. If you get it wrong try clicking on a different answer to see what the correct answer is. There is more than one correct answer for some questions.
After you have looked at all 11, decide which three were the most important defining moments in the history of Port Fairy and the surrounding area.
How to use
Part 1 - How many Port Fairy defining moments can you find?
Watch the video and answer the questions.
Part 2 - What can a community tell us about itself?
Click on all of the hotspots to investigate some of the defining moments that have shaped this community’s past and present.
After you have looked at all 11, decide which three were the most important defining moments in the history of Port Fairy and the surrounding area.
Community Evidence
My community tells me about itself
An associated Defining Moment
Well done. You have looked at all locations!
Decide which three were the most important defining moments in the history of Port Fairy and the surrounding area.
Record your top three Port Fairy defining moments and briefly explain why you chose each one:
My three top Port Fairy defining moments
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Now share your ideas with your classmates and come up with a whole class top three defining moments for Port Fairy.
This process of looking carefully at what exists in a local community (buildings, monuments, signs, plaques, objects and so on) is exactly what we want you to do in your own local community. And as you’re doing this you will start to ask yourself whether these things are evidence of defining moments!