History Lab (VCES)

What

Museum Staff-led

When

Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Thursday

Duration

45 minute staff-led
45 minute gallery visit

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Curriculum links & Accessibility & Access Fund

Year level

Years 7 to 10

Maximum student numbers

Maximum 30 students

Cost

Free for government schools as part of Victorian Challenge and Enrichment Series

Booking information

Bookings 13 11 02

School visit information

Led by a museum educator, students use primary sources from the museum’s Migration and Diversity Collection to develop historical and critical thinking skills, in this free program for government schools!

Students will experience

• Analyse primary source material and create their own historical questions for personal inquiry.
• Access digital content from museum experts on the significance of historical study.
• Develop historical and critical thinking skills in a museum setting.

Students will learn

• How objects can be used to investigate key historical moments and perspectives from the past.
• About the significance of historical study for the present day.
• About the place and significance of site of Immigration Museum in learning about colonisation in Victoria.
• About the range of migrant stories that tell a complex story of Australia as a nation today.

Students will be provided

• A booklet to take back to school which will guide them through the galleries and for them to record their findings.

Students will need

• Pen or pencil.

Other key information

• This program is designed for high ability students.

Victorian Curriculum links

History: Levels 7 and 8

Historical Concepts and Skills

• develop and use historical questions to inform historical investigations
  VC2HH8S01
• explain the features, content and context of historical sources
  VC2HH8S03
• explain the perspectives, beliefs, values and attitudes of people and groups based on evidence from a range of sources
  VC2HH8S05

Critical and Creative Thinking: Levels 7 and 8

Questions and possibilities

• the construction of a main question and sub-questions for different purposes
  VC2CC8Q01

Intercultural Capability: Levels 7 and 8

Culture, Identity and Belonging

• change in cultures, including their own, in a range of contexts, and how this influences identity and a sense of belonging and inclusion
  VC2CI8C01

History: Levels 9 and 10

Investigation: The globalising world (1945–present)

• causes and consequences of significant post-1945 world events, ideas and developments, and their influences on Australia after 1945
  VC2HH10K38
• different historical interpretations and debates about changes and legacies of a major global influence, development and/or event, including on Australian society
  VC2HH10K41

Historical concepts and skills

• formulate, refine and use historical questions to inform historical investigations VC2HH10S01
• analyse the purpose, features, content and context of historical sources VC2HH10S03
• analyse the perspectives, beliefs, values and attitudes of people and groups based on evidence from a range of sources VC2HH10S05

Critical and Creative Thinking: Levels 9 and 10

Questions and possibilities

• the construction and adaptation of questions to suit different contexts
  VC2CC10Q01

Intercultural Capability: Levels 9 and 10

Culture, Identity and Belonging

• how diverse cultures, including their own, influence one another in a range of contexts and how this impacts identity and a sense of belonging and inclusion
  VC2CI10C01