What

Self-directed

When

Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday

Duration

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Curriculum links & Accessibility & Access Fund

Year level

Years VCE, K to 12

Maximum student numbers

Maximum 60 students

Cost

education service fee

Booking information

Bookings 13 11 02

School visit information

For more than 165 years Museums Victoria researchers have been inquiring, collecting and collaborating to understand our changing world.

Students will experience

• Cutting-edge research, fresh discoveries and valuable collection objects on display for the first time.
  An improved understanding of how we work to solve issues in our region and globally.
• Museums Victoria Research Institute's diverse expertise in biodiversity, geology, history, technology and First Peoples’ knowledge and culture is more vital than ever.

Students will learn

• That scientific knowledge is based on observations of the natural world using the senses, and scientific tools and instruments.
• Scientific knowledge, skills and data can be used by museum scientists to explain how they will solve a problem or help save a species.
• Scientific knowledge, skills and data can be used by scientists at the museum, in collaboration with the public or other scientific organisations to identify problems, consider responses and make decisions.
• Scientific knowledge, including models and theories, can change because of new evidence, for example when new fossils are found or when new genetic studies help us better understand species.
• Museums Victoria scientists, such as the entomologists studying native bees, use scientific knowledge to address socio-scientific issues and shape a more sustainable future.

Victorian Curriculum links

Science as a Human Endeavour: Foundation to Level 2

Nature and development of science

• scientific knowledge is based on observations of the natural world using the senses, and scientific tools and instruments
  VC2S2H01

Science as a Human Endeavour: Levels 3 and 4

Use and influence of science

• scientific knowledge, skills and data can be used by people to explain how they will meet a need or solve a problem
  VC2S4H02

Science as a Human Endeavour: Levels 5 and 6

Use and influence of science

• scientific knowledge, skills and data can be used by individuals and communities to identify problems, consider responses and make decisions
  VC2S6H02

Science as a Human Endeavour: Levels 7 and 8

Nature and development of science

• scientific knowledge, including models and theories, can change because of new evidence
  VC2S8H01
• multidisciplinary endeavours to advance scientific knowledge make use of people’s different perspectives and worldviews
  VC2S8H02

Science as a Human Endeavour: Levels 9 and 10

Use and influence of science

• scientific knowledge, skills and data can be used by individuals and communities to identify problems, consider responses and make decisions
  VC2S6H02