Communication: Now and Then
Communication: Now and Then
Humans communicate with each other constantly through speech, action and body language but also through technology. Explore the history of communication in this play-based learning experience. Learn about how communication occurred long ago and how it developed to what we know today, then ponder what might come next.
Curriculum
Early Years
OUTCOME 4: CHILDREN ARE CONFIDENT AND INVOLVED LEARNERS
- Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity.
- Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, enquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
- Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another.
OUTCOME 5: CHILDREN ARE EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATORS
- Children engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from these texts.
- Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media.
- Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work.
- Children use information and communication technologies to access information, investigate ideas and represent their thinking.
Foundation
Focus:
- My personal world.
Pose questions about familiar objects, people, places and events (AC9HSFS01)
Sort and record information including pictorial timelines and locations on pictorial maps or models (AC9HSFS02)
Share narratives and observations, using sources and terms about the past and places (AC9HSFS05)
Year 1
Focus
- How is my world different from the past and how can it change in the future?
Continuity and change between aspects of their daily lives and their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods (AC9HS1K02)
Interpret information and data from observations and provided sources, including the comparison of objects from the past and present (AC9HS1S03)
Discuss perspectives related to objects, people, places and events (AC9HS1S04)
Year 2
Focus
- Past and present connections to people and places.
How technological developments changed people’s lives at home, and in 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)
Discuss perspectives related to objects, people, places and events (AC9HS2S04)
Museum in a Box
Museum in a Box is brought to you by the History Trust of South Australia. Each box takes a curriculum-aligned approach to exploring the history of South Australia. By interacting with objects from the past and discovering their stories, each Museum in a Box endeavours to make history come alive for students.