School excursions to Melbourne Museum, Immigration Museum and Scienceworks offer students a way of understanding our world and learning curriculum content through experiences that give real-world meaning, context and connection.
Learning in museums can be hands-on experiences in immersive exhibitions, seeing extraordinary historical or scientific objects, viewing a planetarium show or participating in a program that challenges your ideas.
Preservice teachers will be guided on how to plan for learning on an excursion, maximising the learning and social outcomes for their students. Each program is by negotiation with staff at the museum of your choice. The program must be booked and organised by university staff. All programs are subject to availability and a minimum of four weeks’ notice is required to request a session.
An overview of museum programs relevant to their area of the curriculum
Insight into museum pedagogical practices, such as object, narrative and design-led learning
Resources to assist the embedding of museum excursions and off-site experiences into units of learning
Access to museum exhibitions and galleries
Curriculum focus to be negotiated, and dependent on the needs of the group.
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Museums Victoria acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung Bunurong peoples of the eastern Kulin Nations where we work, and First Peoples across Victoria and Australia.
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