SCHOOLS PROGRAM

QUEENSLAND MUSEUMNETWORK

2017

CEO Welcome Welcome to our 2017 program of lifelong learning for Queensland students. At Queensland Museum we aim to collaborate and connect with our lifelong learning community through dynamic exhibitions and engaging public programs; to provide inspiring, enriching and empowering experiences for students and educators that connect with Queensland Museum collections, research and stories.

Museums are rich in natural and cultural wonders, and are unique places of learning for all ages. Housing the State collection gives the Queensland Museum Network the unique opportunity to provide teachers with access to inspirational objects that help to bring learning to life.

Queensland Museum is a committed partner with education and industry professionals, academic researchers and the learning community that provides a supportive and comprehensive array of learning resources and opportunities. These include onsite visits, facilitated and self-led experiences, online resources, events, the QM Loans service and the World Science Festival Brisbane.

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics are constantly evolving and it’s vital to invest in and support lifelong learning to ensure we can continue to foster innovative future leaders in this field. Through our partnership with QGC, the development of the Future Makers program is enabling us to respond to this through the provision of new STEM resources and teacher professional development.

We’ve highlighted just some of the innovative offerings across the network, and I encourage you to access our online resources or contact our team to discover what is available for you and your students.

We hope that no matter where you are in Queensland, we can support you in your teaching and learning practice.

Please join with us as we explore the possibilities of lifelong learning for Queensland students.

Professor Suzanne Miller CEO and Director Queensland Museum Network

Queensland Museum Queensland Museum is a museum of natural history, cultural heritage, science and human achievement, highlighting the wonders of Queensland.

The Museum houses permanent and temporary exhibitions, including the Sciencentre, and provides unique learning experiences for students (facilitated and self-guided).

We aim to connect visitors to Queensland, its people and Queensland’s place in the world — past, present and future, through exhibitions, displays and public programs.

Behind the scenes, the Museum is home to millions of objects, specimens and artefacts that tell the changing story of Queensland.

Free Teacher PreviewsDid you know that teachers can preview the Sciencentre and other exhibitions? Simply show your registration at the ticket desk to take up this offer of a free visit.

To find out about upcoming teacher events, please sign up to our Learning e-news: www.qm.qld.gov.au/About+Us/Subscribe+to+enews

Educator-led Programs Biodiversity and ClassificationInvestigate animal biodiversity and the relationships between different species and groups. Consider the importance of taxonomy and classification and how classification has changed over time. Classify real specimens from the museum collection and explore how Queensland Museum scientists collect, research and describe new species.

Audience: Years 7 - 12 Duration: 45 minutes Curriculum: Science | Biological Sciences

Session explores: Biodiversity, evolutionary relationships, museum collections and research, classification and taxonomy.

Animal ClassificationCompare and recognise relationships between living things. Learn how and why Queensland Museum scientists collect, identify and classify animals using visuals, challenges and real specimens.

Audience: Years 3 - 6 Duration: 45 minutes Curriculum: Science | Biological Sciences

Session explores: Biodiversity, features of living things, animal adaptations, scientific language, museum research.

Exploring ToysHelp Queensland Museum curators by sorting a toy collection. Examine shape, age, material, colour, operation and manufacture. Develop and share your own toy exhibition!

Audience: Prep - Year 4 Duration: 45 minutes Curriculum: HASS | History, Science | Chemical Sciences

Session explores: Concepts of past, present and future, historical and scientific inquiry, cooperative learning, museum collections / role of the museum.

Investigating InsectsExplore live insects and insect specimens just like a museum scientist, and identify the features that make an animal an insect. Discover specific adaptations and insect life stages and cycles. Find out why museums collect and study these amazing animals.

Audience: Prep - Year 5 Duration: 30 minutes Curriculum: Science | Biological Sciences

Session explores: Features and classification of living things, life stages and cycles, adaptations, museum collections and research.

SciencentreThe Sciencentre provides interactive learning opportunities for students and is a great way to engage students in hands-on science. If you’ve never been before, or if it’s been a while since you visited with a class, take this opportunity to try some of the action-packed exhibits the Sciencentre is known for.

Aimed at students in Prep to Year 8, the Sciencentre offers a new temporary exhibition roughly every 6 months and also includes the permanent Sciencentre exhibitions Body Zone and Action Stations designed for hands-on experiences.

Action Stations has five themes: Try It, Use It, Move It, See It, Hear It and incorporates themes like Water World, Air Matters and Beyond Earth. Body Zone has four themes and includes Body Works, Body Challenge, Sense Ability and Mind Benders.

Science Theatre ShowsBooked school visits will be complemented with a free interactive show in the Sciencentre (conditions apply). Show times are operated around school bookings. See ‘Visting the Museum’ for booking information.

Discovery Centre With thousands of objects, animals and fossils at your fingertips the Discovery Centre is a showcase of the Museum’s collection and provides a rich interactive experience for all visitors. Visit the Inquiry Zone, Activity Zone, Collection Store or Creature Feature to see live insects and reptiles. Students are encouraged to make close observations, get hands-on with objects and seek answers to their questions.

Creative Lab Teacher Professional DevelopmentOur Creative Lab teacher professional development workshops focus on linking our collections with Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) based curriculum and learning programs.

Creative Lab helps teachers to guide their students into an innovative future. Workshop facilitators lead participants through creative activities, resources and best practice techniques that can be used in the classroom to engage students in STEM subjects.

Creative Lab connects teachers with Queensland Museum collection objects and resources that link to the Australian curriculum, and gives participants the opportunity to connect and interact with STEM professionals.

Creative Lab is supported by QGC through investment in the Future Makers program.

QGC proudly supports Future Makers, a program that aims to create a whole-of-life approach to STEM education in Queensland.

BENEFITS TO TEACHERSFuture Makers supports teachers by providing learning programs, activities and resources that directly connect with the Australian science curriculum and encourage better student engagement and outcomes using STEM principles. Future Makers connects students and classrooms with the knowledge, experience and passion of real-world professionals from QGC and QMN. Working closely with teachers, Future Makers directly engages with schools within the pilot program to help cultivate a pipeline of talent for the future.

WANT TO GET INVOLVED?To find out more, or how you or your school can benefit from the Future Makers program, visit www.futuremakers.org.au

If you’d like to receive updates on Future Makers activity, email your contact details to info@futuremakers.org.au

The program has four key areas which connect school activities with family and community participation:

1. DIRECT PROGRAMS IN SCHOOLSConnecting real-life industry professionals, resources and knowledge with classrooms

Future Makers helps teachers bring STEM subjects to life by connecting them to real-life industry professionals, resources and knowledge.

2. TEACHERSGuiding a new generation

Future Makers provides teachers with professional learning and development workshops, activities and resources that directly align with the Australian science curriculum to inspire their students to pursue a STEM-related career.

3. PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTBringing wonder and innovation to our community

Future Makers supports major community-based events and develops informal learning programs for all Queenslanders to foster a love of STEM. QGC proudly supports major QMN exhibitions such as Hadron Collider: step inside the world’s greatest experiment and the delivery of the World Science Festival Brisbane Regional Program.

4. RESEARCHEvidence for a new approach

Future Makers is underpinned by research and evaluation conducted by the University of Queensland’s School of Education, measuring the impact of our curriculum-focused approach.

Live turtle hatchlings were a big hit at World Science Festival Brisbane 2016. Young visitors also got hands on with one of the Museum’s taxidermy specimens from QM loans.

World Science Festival Brisbane 22 – 26 March 2017World Science Festival Brisbane will again bring some of the world’s greatest thought leaders to Queensland; showcase local scientists and performers from around the Asia Pacific region; and host the brightest and the best from previous New York events. The biggest stars of science will present the beauty, complexity, and importance of science through diverse, multidisciplinary programming that is the World Science Festival’s signature.

Education ProgramWorld Science Festival Brisbane 2017 is committed to creating engaging experiences for students of all ages, grounded in curriculum and supporting a culture of lifelong learning.

The World Science Festival Brisbane’s Education Program on Thursday 23 March and Friday 24 March has been designed to allow travel to and from the Festival during school hours.

The Regional Program also includes three Student Days in Gladstone (3 March), Townsville (27 March) and Chinchilla (31 March).

For the latest program information, visit the Education Program page on the World Science Festival Brisbane website.

Regional ProgramThe Festival’s Regional Program in 2017 will again provide Queensland communities with the opportunity to get involved locally in the World Science Festival Brisbane. Programs designed to engage community members in stimulating and inspiring experiences will be unique to each location, and will offer a selection of STEM-related activities such as discussions with leading scientists, workshops, hands-on activities and visual displays.

Gladstone – 3 & 4 March Toowoomba – 17 March Townsville – 26 & 27 March Chinchilla – 31 March & 1 April

Visit the Regional Program page on the World ScienceFestival Brisbane website for more information.

worldsciencefestival.com.au

The Workshops Rail Museum, Ipswich Make history come alive with hands-on exhibits, multi-media encounters and colourful stories coupled with huge steam locomotives and massive industrial machinery. Entry is free for Queensland school students during school hours.

Educator-led Programs Introduction to The Workshops Rail MuseumAudience: Years P – 12 Duration: 30 minutes Curriculum: HASS | History

Session explores: Our past and present connection to people and places, changes over time, significance of the Ipswich Railway Workshops to Queensland.

Heritage Railway Workshops Tour Step back in time at the Railway Workshops and experience 150 years of living history in these still operational workshops.

Audience: Years P – 12 Duration: 20 minutes Curriculum: HASS | History, Science | Physical sciences

Session explores: Restoration of Heritage Fleet, push and pull forces, rail transportation over time, anatomy of a steam locomotive. Safety requirement: Enclosed footwear required.

Gritty Innovation: The Industrial Revolution and Rail in Queensland Explore the Ipswich Railway Workshops site and the origins of rail in Britain, Australia and here in Queensland.

Audience: Year 9 Duration: 30 minutes Curriculum: HASS | History

Session explores: Turn of the 20th century, industrial revolution, technological innovations, significance of the railways in the development of Queensland.

Wood WorkshopExercise your physical and creative skills using vices, hammers, nails, bolts and screws to build your own wooden toy train to take home.

Audience: Years P – 7 Duration: 60 minutes Curriculum: Design and Technologies | Processes and production skills

Session explores: Properties and use of materials, design ideas, evaluation and comparison of designs.

Simple Machines Investigate the six simple machines with quizzes and challenges about how we use them in daily life.

Audience: Years 2 – 7 Duration: 45 minutes Curriculum: Design and Technologies | Processes and production skills, Science | Physical sciences

Possible Extension: Simple Machines WorkshopExplore simple machines and how we use them at home, school and in the railways. Build gears, levers, pulleys, wheels and axles with LEGO® simple machines kits.

Audience: Years 2 – 7 Duration: 45 minutes Curriculum: Design and Technologies | Processes and production skills, Science | Physical sciences

Session explores: Push and pull forces, properties and use of materials, design (current/future use), change to an object’s motion.

Cobb+Co Museum, ToowoombaCobb+Co Museum is home to the National Carriage Collection. As well as Cobb & Co coaches, our collection includes examples of a vast range of vehicles from the horse-drawn era, from farm wagons and delivery carts to the Rolls Royce of Carriages, the Landau. We are located in Toowoomba, the ‘Garden City’ of Queensland and feature extensive displays on the natural and cultural history of Toowoomba and the Darling Downs.

Educator-led Programs Kabul Dreaming to First ContactUnderstand the culture and history of the Traditional Owners of the Toowoomba Region through hands-on objects and stories, and investigate the diversity of Aboriginal culture throughout Queensland before European settlement.

Audience: Year 3 – 6 Duration: 90 minutes Curriculum: HASS | History

Session explores: The different language groups of the Toowoomba region, impact of early European settlement upon local Aboriginal people, historical skills including chronological cause and effect.

Fairy Stones to GummingurruExplore the artefacts and stories in the Binangar Gallery to learn about the way of life of the Traditional Owners of the Toowoomba region. Learn to play the game “Burguu Mayta”, and hear the story and significance of the local stone arrangement site at Gummingurru.

Audience: Prep – Year 2 Duration: 90 minutes Curriculum: HASS | History

Session explores: Traditional life of the Traditional Owners of the Toowoomba region, significance of local cultural sites, storytelling.

The Olden Days - Then and NowMeet twelve intriguing characters, hear stories and explore objects to find out how life has changed for people over the last 100 years.

Audience: Prep – Year 2 Duration: 90 minutes Curriculum: HASS | History

Session explores: Communicating stories of the past, significance of artefacts, changing technology.

Travelling Back in TimeFollow clues as you explore the National Carriage Collection to discover what it was like to live in Australia before motor vehicles.

Audience: Years 3 – 10 Duration: 90 minutes Curriculum: HASS | History

Session explores: Changing technology, historical travel, colonial settlement, migration to Australia since federation.

Museum of Tropical Queensland, TownsvilleThe Museum of Tropical Queensland, Townsville houses the HMS Pandora gallery. Sent to catch the famous HMS Bounty and her mutinous crew, the Pandora sank off the coast of Cape York in 1791. Hundreds of amazing artefacts have been recovered from the wreck and are on display.

Our focus is on researching and interpreting the cultural and natural heritage of tropical Queensland.

Educator-led Programs 100 Million Years AgoBecome a museum palaeontologist and compare the external features of animals that lived 100 million years ago to living things today.

Audience: Year 1 Duration: 60 minutes Curriculum: Science | Biological Sciences

Session explores: Concepts of past, present and future, features of living things, ancient organisms (fossils and bones), properties of objects.

All Aboard! 18th Century Maritime ExplorationJoin the crew of the HMS Pandora, sent to round-up the mutineers from the HMS Bounty and wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef on her return trip to England in 1791.

Audience: Year 4 Duration: 90 minutes Curriculum: HASS | History

Session explores: The journey of a world navigator in the late 18th century.

Taxonomy TalesSee how scientists at the Museum of Tropical Queensland conduct research, classify collections and name new species. Classify specimens from the museum collection and consider how taxonomic classification has changed over time.

Audience: Year 7 Duration: 90 minutes Curriculum: Science | Biological Sciences

Session explores: Features of living things, museum research, classification of organisms.

Queensland Museum Loans Kits Recreate the museum experience at your school and borrow a loans kit filled with specimens, artefacts and objects from QM Loans. You can search for kits by year level from Prep to Year 6, or by the Early Years Learning Framework. To find out what is available check out the Loans kit database at www.qm.qld.gov.au

• You can borrow kits of museum specimens and artefacts from QM Loans to support learning for the Australian curriculum in Science, Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS).

• Objects in kits engage learners and suit a range of teaching strategies.

Find kits for learning outcomes• Use an Australian curriculum code to find kits at

www.qm.qld.gov.au/Learning+Resources/QM+Loans

Borrow in Brisbane• Become a subscriber to borrow from QM Loans in Brisbane,

or pay as you borrow. Subscription rates start at only $260, allowing you to borrow up to two kits per fortnight for the entire school year.

Borrow in regional Queensland• Find kits in your local area on a QM Loans regional schedule

and contact your local depot to book and borrow kits.

• This service is free for regional borrowers.

Regional loans are distributed thanks to DB Schenker, Supporting Partner of Queensland Museum Regional Loans

Good to know• A standard loan period is two weeks.

Costs apply for longer loans• Borrowers are responsible for costs of transporting loans.

• Collect and return at 122 Gerler Road, Hendra. QM Loans is open Monday and Friday from 9am–5:15pm, Tuesday to Thursday 9am–5pm. Closed: weekends and public holidays.

Visiting the Museum Plan your visitStart your Queensland Museum learning experience by visiting us online at www.network.qm.qld.gov.au

There you can:

• browse through our exhibitions, events and activities • read more about our school programs • download our student and teacher resources and• find out about QM Loans for your classroom.

Bookings are essential for all school and group visits (facilitated and self-guided). Please ensure bookings are made a minimum of two weeks in advance.

At the time of your booking please advise if your group members have any special needs or access requirements – we’d be happy to assist.

On the day of your visit, please arrive on site at least 15 minutes before any booked learning program or exhibition. Allow time for your group to be briefed by staff and/or use cloaking or toilet facilities prior to the session.

Contact details are listed on the back of this brochure.

Contact Us

Queensland Museum & SciencentreCnr Grey and Melbourne Streets, South Brisbane 4101 education@qm.qld.gov.au | +61 (0) 7 3840 7608 qm.qld.gov.au

The Workshops Rail MuseumNorth Street, North Ipswich 4305 info@theworkshops.qm.qld.gov.au | +61 (0) 7 3432 5100 theworkshops.qm.qld.gov.au

Cobb+Co Museum27 Lindsay Street, Toowoomba, 4350 inquiries@cobbandco.qm.qld.gov.au | +61 (0) 7 4659 4900 cobbandco.qm.qld.gov.au

Museum of Tropical Queensland70 – 102 Flinders Street, Townsville, 4810 info.mtq@qm.qld.gov.au | +61 (0) 7 4726 0600 mtq.qm.qld.gov.au