Comparing Past and Present: My Grandmother's Toy Box

In this history curriculum aligned excursion discover what toys can teach us about the past. Learn about change and continuity with toys that have been handed down through the generations of a family.

F-2 students will be encouraged to ask questions and discuss ideas in this interactive, story-telling session.

Students will experience

• Listen to an interactive, narrative story.
• Examine and discuss objects and artefacts.
• Ask historical questions.
• Identify similarities and differences between toys of the past and their own toys.
• Help create a timeline.

Students will learn

• About toys children played with in the past and how these have changed over time.
• That objects can give us clues about how people lived in the past.
• How their lives, toys and technology compare to the lives, toys and technology of children from the past.
• About continuity and change – how some things have changed and how some things have stayed the same.
• What is a timeline and how the chronological order of objects can show change.

Other key information

• This interactive 30-minute presentation is recommended as an introduction for F-2 groups before visiting the Melbourne Story exhibition. It is also suitable for four year-old kindergarten groups.