Marvellous

Melbourne
Jessica McQueen, Caitlin Tobin, Sophie Hendricks and Danielle
Donovan
Iconic Buildings

Construct your own iconic building

This activity consists of getting the children to watch Melbourne- Then and now. After watching the video,
discuss with the children what they noticed about the buildings that are still around in todays Melbourne.
Get them to list these characteristics (increase in difficulty as the year levels increase). Then after the
discussion the children are to design and draw/colour-in their own iconic building. Each drawing or model
must be accompanied with a short sentence (once again increasing with difficulty as the year levels increase).
Materials Now and then YouTube video and poster, coloured pencils/textas, white and coloured paper,
lined paper, grey led pencils, glue

Make a Class City
Firstly, discuss with the children what they see on the poster, highlight any key features they note on the
buildings. Children are to construct a miniature building using the materials they have brought in or have
been supplied by the teacher. It can be as simple or as crazy as they would like. Children are to take a key
element or elements from the Iconic Melbourne Buildings poster or images provided by the teacher. They
must justify why they use these elements, could be as simple as a colour choice.
After finishing their building the children are to combine all the buildings to form a city (teacher will allocate
a space for the city to be displayed, preferably use a couple pieces of paper or a board to form a base).
Extras can be added such as a river or bridges and can be as crazy as they would like it to be!
Materials glue, small cardboard boxes, toile rolls (whatever they find/bring in), coloured paper,
board/paper to set out as a landscape, a poster/photos of Iconic Melbourne
buildings

Resources:
Melbourne Now and Then
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNp5dCZ4GtA

Transport
Classification
After a discussion with the class about types of transport from the past and present, get the children to cut,
colour and paste the types of transport into where they think they belong. Using the word wall, they can label
the types of transport.
Bring the class together after the activity and ask children to justify their decisions.
Materialsimages of transport from the past (early 1900s) and present, a pre made table for each student
Now

Then

Graph of preferred type of transport

Children are to choose from different transport options of the past of what they would have liked to use if
they lived back in the early 1900s. They are then to draw and label their chosen transport and together as a
class make a large graph as a display.
Bring the class together after the activity is completed and discuss what they can see in the graph.
Materials A3/A2 piece of paper, small piece of paper for each student, coloured and grey led pencils,
scissors, glue
Resources:
Melbourne Museum Marvellous Melbourne Exhibition
o http://museumvictoria.com.au/marvellous/index.asp
Venn diagram and table made on Microsoft Word


And scissors and glue

Immigration
Pack a bag
Students use their knowledge of why people and how people came to Melbourne to Pack
a
pack their own bag if they had to leave Melbourne. Students are provided with an Bag

outline of a suitcase and need to draw the items they would pack. Student then need
to justify why they packed each of the items in their suitcases. The finished pieces of work can then be

displayed around the classroom.
Materials pre-made teacher suitcase, outline of suitcase on A3 for each student, textas and pencils and A4
sheet of paper for each student
The Little Refugee
Student listen to the teacher read The Little Refugee written by Anh and Suzanne Do.
The book focuses on a childs perspective o f the migration experience. The class can
discuss the events of the story and the immigration experience described in the book.
Students are reminded of what they need to include in a retell of a book and the class
brainstorms events, which fit into the 3 sections (beginning, middle and end). Students
then write the sentences and draw an illustration to be matched with he students year level and ability
would determine the amount of writing expected. After the students have finished their retell, their work can
be combined to create a classroom, which would be about a childrens immigration experienced.
Materials Little Refugee book, piece of A4 paper for each student, grey led pencils, coloured pencils and
textas
Resources:
The Name Jar, Yangsook Choi, 2001
The Little Refugee, Anh and Suzanne Do, 2011
The Lotus Seed, Sherry Garland, 1993
Immigration Museum Pack Your Bags Resources
o http://museumvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum/education/education-kits/pack-your-
bags/
A History of Immigration in Australia [YouTube Video]
o http://museumvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum/education/education-kits/pack-your-
bags/
Long Journey Website
o http://www.abc.net.au/longjourney/documentary_broadband.html

Sport

The importance of sport to Melbourne

This is a literacy activity to get the students thinking about why sport is so
important to Melbourne. The teacher will explore ideas with the students about



why sport is important to them. Student will be shown numerous YouTube clips




of great sporting moments in Melbournes history, ranging from the 1956


Olympics to Melbourne Cup victories by Phar Lap. Student will then write two sentences about why sport is
important to them and why sport is important to Melbourne, accompanied by a picture.
MaterialsSport YouTube videos, writing books, grey led pencils, coloured pencils/textas

P.E rotations
Students will be broken into groups. There will be five sporting stations, all with different historical
sporting activities. Students will rotate through each station to learn a new skill of a particular sport.
Stations include: Football- Handballing and kicking for goals, Cricket- one student throwing the ball and the
other practicing hitting it with a bat, Olympics- Long Jump into the sandpit and Shot Put with a tennis ball.
After all of the rotations students will all participate in a 50m Melbourne Cup sprint.
Materialsfootballs, goal posts, tennis balls, plastic cricket bats, long jump runway with sandpit

Resources:
wins Melbourne Cup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEg-XS_IWN0
Phar lap
Melbourne Museum http://museumvictoria.com.au/pharlap/museum/index.asp
Melbourne Olympic Games (1956) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZGrzCDNaj0