Back in Time

What was life like for your grandma and grandpa when they were your age? Did they play games on computers or watch movies on their own television?

Back in Time is a Museum educator-led program where students handle and use inquiry-based learning to investigate how life has changed in Australia over the past 100 years.

Aims

Help students understand continuity and change.

• Give students an opportunity to explore the handling collection from the National Museum of Australia.
• Introduce students to the idea of collections and the link between collecting and remembering.
• Familiarise students with the concept that museum objects help us remember stories from the past and tell stories of the present.
• Provide hands-on exploration of a diverse collection of objects to facilitate discussions about the past and the present, as it relates to objects in the home.

Curriculum links

Foundation

• Share a perspective on information, such as stories about significant events and special places. AC9HSFS03
• Pose questions about familiar objects, people, places and events. AC9HSFS01

Year 1

• Continuity and change between aspects of their daily lives and their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods. AC9HS1K02
• Develop questions about objects, people, places and events in the past and present. AC9HS1S01

Year 2

• How technological developments changed people’s lives at home, and the ways they worked, travelled and communicated. AC9HS2K02
• Interpret information and data from observations and provided sources, including the comparison of objects from the past and present. AC9HS2S03