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Exploring Toys
Prep – Year 2
HASS, Science
Facilitated by museum staff
10am, 11am, and 1pm
Exploring Toys is a hands-on experience for students to work as curators, designers and collaborators as they create their own exhibition with toys from the collection.
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.
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.
2026 Program
Term 2:
10 - 12 June
10am, 11am & 1pm
Term 3:
29 - 31 July
10am, 11am & 1pm
Term 4:
11 - 13 November
10am, 11am & 1pm
Curriculum Links:
Prep HASS: AC9HSFS01, AC9HSFS02, AC9HSFS03, AC9HSFS04
Year 1 HASS: AC9HS1S01, AC9HS1S02, AC9HS1S03, AC9HS1S04, AC9HS1S06
Year 2 HASS: AC9HS2S01, AC9HS2S02, AC9HS2S03, AC9HS2S04, AC9HS2S05, AC9HS2S06
Prep Science (Chemical sciences, Science Understanding, Science and a Human Endeavor): AC9SFU02, AC9SFU03, AC9SFH01
Year 1 Science (Science Enquiry): AC9SFI0, AC9SFI02, AC9SFI05, AC9S1U03, AC9S1I03, AC9S1I05, AC9S1I06
Year 2 Science: AC9S2I01, AC9S2I03, AC9S2I05, AC9S2I06
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