Exploring Toys is a hands-on experience for students to work as designers and collaborators as they create their own exhibition with toys from the collection.
Program overview
Imagine working in a museum! We ask students to bring their ideas, teamwork and toy expertise to work with real museum collections and create their very own exhibition. This hands-on experience will see your students as problem-solvers, designers, collaborators and critical thinkers. Students classify and investigate toys by observing and describing their physical properties.
In small teams, students will:
- engage in teamwork through role play to investigate museum practices
- compare different observable properties such as materials, age, colour, texture, flexibility
- use real museum objects to develop a (mini) museum exhibition
- present and describe their exhibition to the group.
Exploring Toys complements the Science and HASS learning areas of the Australian Curriculum: Exploring Toys teacher notes and curriculum links
Learning outcomes
Students will:
- recognise concepts of past and present
- share knowledge about personal and family histories to investigate the past
- observe and interpret objects to draw conclusions or devise an inquiry about materials, history, technology or energy transfer, etc.
- identify different materials, processes and technologies used for constructing, manufacturing and operating toys
- celebrate museum collections and the role of the museum in documenting change
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