What

Museum Staff-led

When

Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday

Duration

40 minutes in the STEM Lab

Year level

Years K to F

Minmum student numbers

Minimum 15 students

Maximum student numbers

Maximum 28 students

Cost

$11 per student + education service fee

Booking information

Bookings 13 11 02

School visit information

Students are taken through an interactive story, solving design challenges faced by Dot, the main character in the Ground Up: Building Big Ideas, Together exhibition. Each time Dot encounters a problem, students build and test solutions in small groups.

Children will practise STEM skills like designing and testing solutions, collaborating, communicating and forming and recognising patterns.

Older students will be challenged with design constraints and a more complex end-goal.

Victorian Curriculum links

Science

• Respond to and pose questions, and make predictions about familiar objects and events (VCSIS050) 
• Compare observations and predictions with those of others (VCSIS054) 

Mathematics

• Follow a short sequence of instructions; recognise, copy, continue and create repeating patterns represented in different ways (VC2MFA01) 
• sort, name and create familiar shapes; recognise and describe familiar shapes within objects in the environment, giving reasons (VC2MFSP01) 

Design and Technologies

• Use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to produce designed solutions safely (VCDSCD020) 
• Use personal preferences to evaluate the success of design ideas, processes and solutions including their care for environment (VCDSCD021)