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| Prepare students for the museum visit |
- We are going to visit the Melbourne Story exhibition.
- The exhibition is divided into a number of zones, each focussing on a particular period of Melbourne’s history.
- The visit is part of a unit of work where we will be exploring how the lives of individuals are shaped by time and place.
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Map of the exhibition (PDF, 105Kb) |
| Orient to key idea |
- Ask each student to choose a symbol of comparative wealth (poor, middle income, wealthy) and of place and time (medieval England, ancient Egypt, Australia during World War One).
- Class brainstorms the ways in which their lives would be different from the way they are now.
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| Orient to process |
- Seat students in circle. Explain or revisit principles of Community of Inquiry.
- The big question we’ll consider today is “How are we shaped by time and place?”
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Conducting a Community of Inquiry |
| Orient to museum visit |
- Summing up:
- These are the skills we’ll be using during our visit to the Melbourne Story exhibition, working as teams of detectives to investigate the lives of ‘missing persons’ from different periods of Melbourne’s history.
- The characters are fictional, but are built on what is known of real people of the period.
- The visit to the museum will allow us to find clues about what might have happened.
- We’ll have the opportunity to complete the story back at school.
- Organise 6 groups for the visit and allocate each a zone from 1-6.
- Ask students to bring digital cameras, voice recorders, sketch pads, pen and paper. (It will not be necessary for all students to have cameras and voice recorders).
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| Expectations |
- Teacher discusses with students:
- Appropriate behaviour in museum.
- Group protocols.
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