Week 1
What stories do you want to tell?
Museum of Staying Home
Research, Collect, Exhibit
Suitable for Year Levels 3–10
A 3 week series of activities designed to get you thinking about and documenting your life under lockdown. How has your life changed? What have you been doing? How have you been learning at home?
Week 2
What objects do you need to tell these story?
Week 3
How will you share your story through an exhibit?
Museum of Staying Home Exhibition
View some examples of exhibits that people have made at home
Teacher notes
Through their collections and exhibits, museums provide a window on the past where teachers and students can access primary sources of information from major events in our history.
Where do these collections come from and who decides what stories are told?
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on the whole community and is clearly an event that should be documented for future generations.
Victorian Curriculum Links
Capabilities - Critical and Creative Thinking Years 3–10
- Questions and Possibilities
- Metacognition
- Reasoning
The Arts – Media Arts Years 3–10
- Explore and Represent Ideas
- Media Arts Practices
- Present and Perform
English – Literacy Years 3-10
- Creating Texts
Humanities – History Years 3–10
- Historical concepts and skills
Technologies - Design and Technologies Years 3–10
- Technologies and Society
- Creating Designed Solutions