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Education Programs for Temporary Exhibitions 2012
The following education programs are linked with the Museum's temporary exhibitions program for 2012.
We are happy to tailor a program to meet your needs. Please contact our Education Officer Sara Gillies by:
to discuss your educational requirements.
Geelong: A Bird’s Eye View 1857-2011
27 February - 1 June, 2012
Years 1 - 10
The seagulls of Geelong have seen it all; from the arrival of the first squatters in 1836 to the redevelopment of the children's pool at Eastern Beach, Bird’s Eye View is a unique opportunity to experience the city from a gull’s perspective.
Look from above with six Geelong panoramas spanning 150 years and retrace the appearance and disappearance of some of the city’s most significant features while you marvel at Geelong’s transformation into a modern city.
Education Activities:
Become a part of the story of Geelong as you delve into the trunk of an unknown past resident! Students will travel the changing streetscape of nineteenth and twentieth century Geelong through an interactive series of images. As they journey, they will be introduced to personalities from Geelong’s past.
In small groups, they will dig through the suitcase contents of these travelling figures to become a part of a unique day in the life of a period resident. Students will then creatively interpret their day for the class.
For senior students, themes of land reclamation, land use and industry can be explored.
VELS Focus:
Local History, Drama, Communication, Geography, Economics, Inquiry and Creative Thinking
Sports Alive!
12 March – 11 May
Years 4 - 10
Experience fun challenges from different sports. Discover nutrition, strength, speed, stamina, muscles and balance. Learn about the science and technology behind sports. Visitors compete in sporting challenges with family and friends to test their sporting skills, while discovering the physics, biology and technologies behind the sports.
Through interactive exhibits, Sports Alive! makes learning about the scientific principles behind sport fun, interesting and entertaining (plus a little exhausting!).
Education Activities:
Students will learn about the forces at work when they try their hand at a range of interactive sports activities from netball to rowing and sprinting. Students will test their speed, accuracy, and endurance as they go, then build a muscle to investigate how arms and legs work to flex and extend.
VELS Focus:
Movement and Physical Activity, Science of Motion
Our Water
28 May - 27 June
Years 2 - 9
If you were in control of Australia’s water, how would you use it? Our Water engages and inspires visitors to expand their understanding and delve into Australia’s unique water situation. Comprising 28 hands-on exhibits designed to inform and encourage, this exhibition challenges visitors to investigate water from an urban, agricultural, industrial and environmental perspective, examining the consequences of the different uses and re-uses of water in Australia.
Developed by Questacon - The National Science and Technology Centre, Canberra
Proudly sponsored by the National Water Commission
Education Activities:
Learn about the story of our water. Where does our water come from? Why and how do we use it? What can we do to improve our water habits? The exhibition includes over 20 interactive stations including a photo booth in which students will have their photo filled with water to support their body’s organs, a model irrigator at which students will race their friends to find the most efficient method of irrigation, and a water cycle pinball machine.
Students will also have the option to create a simple water conservation craft to take home.
VELS Focus:
Environment, Science, Design, Creativity, & Technology, Geography
Scarf Festival 2012: The Journey
18 June - 31 August
Years 5 - 10
Come on The Journey with The National Wool Museum’s 2012 Scarf Festival. An installation of unique hand crafted scarves, The Journey is an extraordinary textile exploration of what it means to travel.
Inspired by daily trips, happy holidays and special sojourns, this range of exquisite scarves examines the paths we choose and the extraordinary discoveries we make along the way.
Students are welcome to enter the 2012 Scarf Festival and entry for students is free.
Education Activities:
Explore the colours, textures, and techniques of the festival. Look for 'the journey' in each scarf – how have artists used these colours, materials, and textures to tell their stories and to interpret a theme? Students will explore the exhibition with a focus on using appropriate subject vocabulary, and then produce their own creative response and artistic statement around this year’s theme 'The Journey'.
VELS Focus:
The Arts, Communication, Personal Learning
Wish You Were Here - A private note for all to see...
 17 September - 30 November
Years 3 - 9
Since the early 1900s, Geelong’s picture postcards have provided an insight into the personal stories of its people and the pride of a developing city.
From the bronze figure of farmer and son striking the bell in the T & G Clock Tower, to a cyclist approaching the gas lamp roundabout in Malop Street, Wish You Were Here depicts a diverse range of activities, where blank canvasses and brief messages reveal intimate details of a growing Geelong.
Education Activities:
Connect with life before e-mail, sms, or Facebook and get personal with Geelong’s past! Students will learn about how communication technology has evolved over the years before focusing on the advent of the postcard. What makes a postcard special, why do we save them?
Students will 'visit' with Geelong’s past through a collection of historic postcards. They will then create their own take-home postcard.
Senior students can explore the exhibition with a focus on themes of civic pride, visual design, or building history.
VELS Focus:
English, History, Communication, Visual Art
Permian Monsters: Life Before the Dinosaurs
2 November 2012 - 3 March 2013
Years Prep - 10
Ok, so you know all about the Dinosaurs, but how much do you know about the Permian Monsters? This exhibition presents the relatively unknown and bizarre creatures of the Permian that lived before their more famous ancestors, the dinosaurs.
The aim of the exhibition is to educate people about this geological period, its bizarre creatures and the greatest extinction the planet ever experienced.
Education Activities:
Who was dinocephalia (terrible head)? When Australia was just a southern corner of the super-continent Pangea, the countryside and its inhabitants looked very different. Students will learn the difference between dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles, between herbivores and carnivores, and be introduced to distant ancestors of today’s mammals.
Students will also learn about the requirements for life (eg. air, water, food) and the changes that led to The Great Dying when up to 96% of Earth’s marine occupants became extinct. What is a fossil? Students will excavate, record, and identify Permian creatures.
VELS Focus:
Science, Geography, Interpersonal Development
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