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Arts, culture, primary industry and technology, all in one location

The Ginger Factory has lots of educational options for visiting school groups and offers teachers the freedom to choose activities to suit your class. Each activity is matched with anticipated outcomes so you can select those most relevant for your students.

Onsite options include:

The Inside Story takes your students through the ginger industry, start to inside storyfinish, from inside the factory. Planting and harvesting, processing and packing and then exporting to the world. Sixty years of history and some of the most advanced processing techniques that lead to the finest ginger in the world. Key Learning areas include Science (Natural and Processed Materials, Energy and Change), Technology (Systems, Technology Practice, Materials) and SOSE (Time continuity and change).

Come see for yourself! Visit The Ginger Factory and have a sneak peek at all we have to offer your class. View our facilities, take familiarisation tours and meet our staff.
Bookings are essential so call (07) 5447 8429 to organise your free visit.
Overboard transports students by boat through 16 different cultural andoverboard geographical zones of the world. The attraction has more than 200 fully animated puppets which comically bring to life the story of the Ginger Bread Man and his escape from two persistent cooks. Key learning areas include The Arts (Design and Performance), SOSE (Culture and Identity), Technology (Systems and materials) and English (Narrative and Script writing).

ginger trainSee the Ginger Factory's rainforest setting from
The Ginger Train Tour
onboard one of Queensland's original cane trains. Key learning areas include SOSE (Transport, Time continuity and change), Science and English.

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The Ginger Factory also offers 3 comprehensive outcomes based programs to complement your visit.  These programs have been designed by Sunshine Coast teachers and come complete with detailed elaborations and anticipated outcomes. Each program integrates concepts from Science, Technology, SOSE, English and The Arts and can be easily modified to suit different class levels.

  Get Smart with Ginger (Word doc)
  Watersmart (Word doc)
  Go Overboard (Word doc)

 

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