Comparing Past and Present: My Grandmother's Toy Box
- What
- Museum Staff-led
- When
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Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday
10am, 11am, 12 noon & 1pm - Duration
- 30 minutes
Curriculum links & Accessibility & Access Fund - 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
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
VC2HH2K01 - differences and similarities between students’ daily lives and how these have changed or remained the same over time
VC2HH2K03
Historical questions
- ask historical questions about objects, people, places and events in the past and present
VC2HH2S01 - sequence events chronologically
VC2HH2S02
Use historical sources
- identify the features and content of sources
VC2HH2S03
Continuity and change
- identify examples of continuity and change by comparing the past and present
VC2HH2S05
Causes and consequences
- identify the causes and consequences of changes
VC2HH2S06
Historical significance
- create a chronological account of events using historical terms and information from sources
VC2HH2S08
Related links
Related programs and resources
Self-directed
Years F to 10, VCE
Melbourne Story Gallery Visit
Students can encounter the people, places and events that have made Melbourne the city it is today.
Online
Years F to 2
Differences and Similarities: A Toy Box Tale
A virtual, interactive history lesson all about toys!
Museum Staff-led
Years 7 to 10
Free VCES Programs
Melbourne Museum has FREE Enrichment programs for Years 7 to 10 students in Victorian government schools, funded as part of the Victorian Challenge and Enrichment Series by the Department of Education.