A presenter throws a giant beach ball in the air. There are other toys on the table including a foam rocket, a hula hoop with glittery strands, a stack of red plastic cups and a helicopter.

Toys and Forces Show

What: Museum Staff-led
When: Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday
Duration: 30 minutes in the Energy Lab
Curriculum links & Accessibility & Access Fund
Year level: Years F to 2
Minmum student numbers: Minimum 15 students
Maximum student numbers: Maximum 60 students
Cost: $9 per student + education service fee
Booking information: Bookings 13 11 02
School visit information

This curriculum-aligned science show is the most fun way to explore how forces like push, pull and gravity can make toys move or change shape. Students will discover that they can learn how their own toys work, or even design new toys.

Students will experience

Exciting experiments using toys to demonstrate forces.
Hands-on opportunities that get students involved and using the forces of push and pull.
Balls, the Marngrook, squishy toys, flying toys and air cannons.
A catchy song that will help young students to synthesise and remember their learning.

Students will learn

That toys have been designed and used by people throughout history, including the First Nations people of Australia.
How forces like pushes and pulls can make toys move or change shape.
That gravity can pull toys down towards the ground.
That we can design and make our own toys.

Victorian Curriculum links

Science: Foundation to Level 2

Physical sciences

the way objects move depends on a variety of factors including their size, shape and material
VC2S2U10
pushes and pulls are forces that can change an object’s movement or shape and can be represented in terms of strength and direction
VC2S2U11