History that walks off the page.
Six curriculum-aligned CBD walking programs, Year 5 through VCE — each tailored to your ACARA V9 achievement standards.
A walking classroom. A curriculum you already teach.
Every program is directly tailored to your curriculum and content needs, integrating the specific ACARA V9 achievement standards you'd like Martin to focus on. Tell us your unit outline, learning intentions or assessment task — Martin builds the walk around them.
- 2-hour guided CBD walk
- Up to ~50 students per cohort
- Pre-tour teacher brief
- Student worksheet
- Weekday morning start times
- Tax invoice for school records
The Foundations of Melbourne
How a river bank became a city.
Before the trams, the towers or the trains — what was Melbourne? Your Year 5s walk in the footsteps of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung, meet John Batman's boat at the exact bend of the Yarra where it all began, and discover why 1835 changed everything. Colonial history brought to life through storytelling no textbook can match.
Martin tailors this program directly to your curriculum and content needs, integrating the specific ACARA V9 achievement standards you nominate.
Democracy and the Gold Rush
From diggers to democracy — 1854 to 1901.
In under two hours, your Year 6s trace how Victoria's gold rush turned Melbourne into the second-richest city in the British Empire — and how the Eureka Rebellion of 1854 planted the seeds of Australian democracy. Standing where miners marched and protesters petitioned, students see Federation history not as chapter headings but as a civic story alive under their feet.
Martin tailors this program directly to your curriculum and content needs, integrating the specific ACARA V9 achievement standards you nominate.
Liveability in Melbourne
What builds the world's most liveable city?
Your Year 7s explore Melbourne through the geographer's lens — climate, transport, green space, culture — and meet the real people (planners, protesters, publicans and publishers) who bent the shape of the CBD to their will. Textbook liveability indicators, brought to life on the exact streets they describe.
Martin tailors this program directly to your curriculum and content needs, integrating the specific ACARA V9 achievement standards you nominate.
Australian Political Parties
The birthplace of Labor, Liberal, and everything in between.
From the Trades Hall birthplace of the ALP to the Melbourne Club where the Liberals gathered, from Deakin to Menzies to Whitlam — your Year 8s meet the leaders and ideologies that shaped modern Australian parliament, standing right where they lived, spoke, and schemed. Civics comes alive on the pavement.
Martin tailors this program directly to your curriculum and content needs, integrating the specific ACARA V9 achievement standards you nominate.
Melbourne During War
1916. The city that split a nation.
Australia is bleeding on the Western Front. At home, Prime Minister Billy Hughes and Archbishop Daniel Mannix are tearing the nation apart over one word: conscription. Your Year 9s stand on the exact CBD steps where each man rallied crowds of tens of thousands, and understand why WWI shaped 20th-century Australia more than any single event. The war didn't only happen at Gallipoli — it happened on these streets.
Martin tailors this program directly to your curriculum and content needs, integrating the specific ACARA V9 achievement standards you nominate.
Multifaith, Mindful Melbourne
One city. Every worldview. Two thousand years of belief.
From the vaulted stone of St Paul's Cathedral to the golden dome of a Sikh Gurdwara, from Melbourne's oldest synagogue to the mindfulness halls of the CBD Buddhist community — your senior students trace how faith has shaped Melbourne's laws, politics, architecture and social fabric. Whether they're VCE Philosophy students, Religion & Society scholars, or simply curious — atheist, agnostic or devout — this walk speaks to every worldview.
Martin tailors this program directly to your curriculum and content needs, integrating the specific ACARA V9 achievement standards you nominate.
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