Teacher guide
Suitable for: Kinder / Early Years
Learning area: Science
Topics: Animals, Water, Weather
Help children develop a respect for ocean life as they learn about shells, sharks and ancient marine animals.
This resource has been designed for use after Museums Victoria has visited your kindergarten or early learning centre for a Museum in a Van incursion. It has a range of activities and additional information to extend learning in the classroom.
Through games, stories and by touching real objects from the Museums Victoria collections, children will develop a respect for ocean life as they learn about the wonders of the ocean.
In this activity students will
- Learn about the ocean animals they explored during their incursion.
- Discover key features of ocean animals such as the shape of shells or teeth.
- Identify ocean animals living around Victoria, in Port Phillip Bay.
- Learn about the different zones of the ocean.
- Investigate amazing discoveries from the deep sea.
- Choose between a range of fun and engaging ocean activities.
Suggested questions to engage students
- Which ocean animals live near Melbourne/Victoria?
- Do all ocean animals live in the same zone of the ocean?
- Why do some ocean animals live in shells?
- Why are some shells spiky?
- How can we tell if animals are herbivores or carnivores?
- How do fish breathe under water?
What to do
Download the teacher resource to continue your museum journey.
- Ocean Wonders Tool Kit Teacher Resource| 6.56 MB .pdf file
- Ocean Wonders Auslan Flashcards| 1.28 MB .pdf file
RELATED INCURSIONS
Victorian Curriculum Links
Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework (VEYLDF)
- Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world.
- Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners.
4.3 Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another.
4.4 Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, places, technologies and natural and processed materials.
- Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators.
5.1 Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes.
5.2 Children engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from those texts.
5.4 Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work.
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