Melbourne Museum
Located in Carlton, the Melbourne Museum have created an online space for your students to enjoy a world of museum experiences from home and the classroom.
Guided Programs
Schoolyard Bugs
Cost: $90 (up to 30 students) + $35 booking fee
Curriculum: Biological Science and Science Inquiry Skills
Grade: F-4
Outline: Students work in an online setting with museum educators to learn about the amazing world of bugs.
Students examine the external features of insects, spiders and other arthropods, while also learning about scientific methods of classification. They will identify common schoolyard bugs and meet some amazing and unusual bugs from Museums Victoria’s entomology collection.
Session Days: Wednesday(T3) and Thursday (T2)
Via: Zoom
Climate Change & Victoria’s Future
Cost: Free (supported by DET) for 20-90 students
Curriculum: Science
Grade: 3-6
Outline: Developed as part of the Victorian Challenge and Enrichment Series, this online virtual learning program provides an opportunity for students to deepen their understanding of climate science, and expand their thinking around climate action!
Climate change and Victoria’s future begins by unpacking the relationship between weather and climate and examining the role that the atmosphere plays in stabilising our climate. The program then shifts its focus to Victoria, as students use information from the latest climate science report to learn about Victoria’s climate risks and what can be done to mitigate them.
This 90-minute program delivered in an online setting with museum educators.
Session days: Monday, Wednesday and Friday (T2), Monday - Thursday (T3)
Via: Zoom
First Peoples: Country and Culture
Cost: $90 (up to 30 students) / connection + booking fee
Curriculum: History, Geography, Ethical, Critical and Creative and Intercultural Understanding
Grade: 3-4
Outline: Understanding the diversity and longevity of Australia’s First Peoples is essential learning for all students. The focus of this session is to illustrate the significant ways Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are connected to Country and Place (land, sea, waterways and skies) and the effects this relationship has on their daily lives, cultural practices and identity.
Students will learn about the beliefs and practices of the First Peoples of Victoria, who have lived in South-Eastern Australia for thousands of years. By learning about First Peoples' connection to Country students can better understand the aims of sustainability.
Students will be provided with a booklet of ‘before and after’ activities that explore key concepts that are addressed in the program and provide questions and resources for conducting deeper research after the session.
Students should prepare questions to ask at the end of the session as part of their preparation.
Session Days: Tuesday (T2), Friday (T3)
Via: Zoom
Colonial Life: Invasion and Settlement
Cost: $90 (up to 30 students) / connection + booking fee
Curriculum: History, Intercultural Capability
Grade: 5-6
Outline: Students who are studying colonial Australia in the 1800s and the development of Australia as a nation, will better understand the impact of this period on the lives of the First Peoples and their country.
This interactive livestream program will introduce students to the beliefs and practices of the First Peoples of Victoria who have lived in South-Eastern Australia for thousands of years. They will learn how colonial practices impacted on the people and the environment of Victoria.
Students will be provided with a booklet of ‘before and after’ activities that explore key concepts that are addressed in the program and provide questions and resources for conducting deeper research after the session.
Students should prepare any questions they have to ask at the end of the session in preparing for the program.
Session Days: Tuesday (T2) and Friday (T3)
Via: Zoom
A Toy Box Tale
Cost: $90 (up to 30 students) / connection + booking fee
Curriculum: Humanities, Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking Capabilities, Intercultural
Grade: F-2
Outline: This old toy box has fascinating tales to tell about children’s toys linked to different chapters of the Melbourne Story from 1835 to the present day. Students will see the toys that Hannah discovers in her ancestral toy box up close, and will have the opportunity to reflect on what children’s toys can tell us about how people lived in the past.
Children will learn about change over time and how some things change but others stay the same. The toy timeline provides an introduction to chronological order in historical texts.
Teachers will need to download the timeline worksheet so that students can interact with the story and objects as the story is being told. Additional resources are provided for consolidating their learning after the session.
Session days: Wednesday (T3), Thursday (T2)
Via: Zoom
Self-Guided Programs
Virtual Tours & Resources from Exhibits
Cost: Free
Outline: Explore Melbourne Museum through mini-websites, audio tours and virtual tours on Google Maps.
Mini-websites:
First Peoples
Dinosaur Walk
Dynamic Earth
The Plants of Milarri Garden
Marvellous Melbourne
Forest Secrets
Virtual tour only:
Wild: Amazing animals in a changing world
Marine Life
Phar Lap: A true legend
Bugs Alive!
Te Vainui O Pasifika
600 Million Years
Darwin to DNA
Museum of Staying at Home
Cost: Free
Curriculum: Capabilities - Critical and Creative Thinkging, Arts - Media Arts, English - Literary, History, and Technologies - Design and Technologies
Grade: 3-10
Outline: A three 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?
First Peoples - Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre
Cost: Free
Outline: The First Peoples exhibition, at Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Melbourne Museum, is a shared endeavour of Museums Victoria and the Victorian Aboriginal community. The First Peoples Yulendj Group of Elders and community representatives have brought their knowledge, stories, culture, objects and images to guide the exhibition's development.
General Activities
“The Listies” - Fact Filled Interactive Podcast
Cost: Free
Outline: The Listies totally serious 100% fact filled guide to the Melbourne Museum.
The Listies take you on a LOLtastic tour of Melbourne Museum to see shark dentists, dinosaur salesmen and the insect Oscars!
Activities at Home
Cost: Free
Outline: Hands-on Museum fun from the comfort of home. A large range of family-friendly activities inspired by items in Museums Victoria's collections and exhibitions.
Puzzles
Cost: Free
Outline: Online puzzles to complete of collection items, museum galleries and iconic buildings.