Differences and Similarities: A Toy Box Tale
- What
- Online
- When
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Terms 2 to 4, Monday to Friday
9:30am, 1:30pm - Duration
- 45 minutes
Curriculum links & Accessibility & Access Fund - Year level
- Years F to 2
- Minmum student numbers
- Minimum 20 students
- Maximum student numbers
- Maximum 90 students
- Cost
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Virtual Program
$90 per 30 students + booking fee
View cost information - Booking information
- Bookings 13 11 02
This interactive program based on the My grandmother's toy box storybook, provides a unique view of life in the past.
In this virtual history incursion for F-2 students, discover what toys can teach us about how people lived in the past.
Students will experience
- Listen to an interactive, narrative story
- Discuss features of objects
- Ask historical questions
- Identify similarities and differences between toys of the past and their own toys
- Create a timeline together
Students will learn
- About toys children played with in the past and how these have changed over time
- That objects can give us clues about how people lived in the past
- How their lives, toys and technology compare to the lives, toys and technology of children from the past
- About continuity and change – how some things have changed and how some things have stayed the same
- What is a timeline and how the chronological order of objects can show change
Students will need
- Each student will require a timeline worksheet during the session. Teachers will be emailed this resource and will need to download and print a copy for every student.
Other key information
- Additional resources will be provided for teachers to assist in consolidating student learning after the session.
Any questions?
Victorian Curriculum links
History: Foundation to Level 2
- the stories of family and close connections, where they were born and raised, and how they are related to each other
VC2HH2K01 - differences and similarities between students’ daily lives and how these have changed or remained the same over time
VC2HH2K03 - ask historical questions about objects, people, places and events in the past and present
VC2HH2S01 - sequence events chronologically
VC2HH2S02 - identify the features and content of sources
VC2HH2S03 - identify examples of continuity and change by comparing the past and present
VC2HH2S05 - identify the causes and consequences of changes
VC2HH2S06 - create a chronological account of events using historical terms and information from sources
VC2HH2S08
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