Museum Victoria staff presenting education program for school children

Comparing Past and Present: My Grandmother's Toy Box

What: Museum Staff-led
When: Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday
10am, 11am, 12 noon & 1pm
Duration: 30 minutes
Curriculum links & Accessibility
Year level: Years K to 2
Minmum student numbers: Minimum 15 students
Maximum student numbers: Maximum 30 students
Cost: $9 per student + education service fee
Booking information: Bookings 13 11 02
School visit information

In this history curriculum aligned excursion discover what toys can teach us about the past. Learn about change and continuity with toys that have been handed down through the generations of a family.

F-2 students will be encouraged to ask questions and discuss ideas in this interactive, story-telling session.

Students will experience

Listen to an interactive, narrative story
Examine and discuss objects and artefacts
Ask historical questions
Identify similarities and differences between toys of the past and their own toys
Help create a timeline

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

Other key information

This interactive 30-minute program is recommended as an introduction for F-2 groups before visiting the Melbourne Story exhibition. It is also suitable for four year-old kindergarten groups.

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
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differences and similarities between students’ daily lives and how these have changed or remained the same over time
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