Exploring Toys

Audience: Prep - Year 2. Please allocate a minimum 4 adults to attend each session.
Availability: 1 – 5 June | 24 – 28 August | 2 – 6 November (2020)

Imagine working in a Museum! We ask students to bring their ideas, teamwork and toy expertise to work with real Museum collections and create their very own exhibition. This hands-on experience will see your students as problem-solvers, designers, collaborators and critical thinkers. Students classify and investigate toys by observing and describing their physical properties.

In small teams, students will:

• Engage in teamwork through role play to investigate museum practices.
• Compare different observable properties such as materials, age, colour, texture, flexibility.
• Use real museum objects to develop a (mini) museum exhibition.
• Present and describe their exhibition to the group.

Learning Outcomes

• Recognising concepts of past and present.
• Sharing what we know about personal and family histories to investigate the past.
• Observing and interpreting objects, to draw conclusions or devise an inquiry
  (about materials, histories, technologies, energy transfer, etc.).
• Identifying different materials, processes and technologies used for constructing, manufacturing and operating toys.
• Celebrating museum collections and the role of the museum in documenting change.

Session Details

• Allow 45 minutes per session. Rotations for large groups will be hourly to include a reset period. 
• Program led by Museum staff
• $6 per student. Supervising adults FREE
• Minimum 20 students. Minimum 4 adults needed for small role-play component.
• Teacher Notes (198 KB)  including Australian Curriculum links (Science, HASS for Prep, Year 1, Year 2)

Group Visit Information

For information on booking a group into a program and additional information for your visit, go to the Queensland Museum & Sciencentre planning page. Groups may be allocated time for self- guided Museum exploration during school program rotations.