HUMANITIES

YEAR 7 HISTORY MUSEUM MORNING

Year 7 History students have completed their unit on the Ancient World, with classes exploring different ancient civilisations (Ancient China, Ancient Greece, the Indus Valley Civilisation, and Ancient Rome). To conclude our unit, students had the opportunity to create a museum exhibit on an artefact from their ancient civilisation and share their findings with other Year 7 History students and teachers during our Museum Morning on Thursday 19 June.

Our Year 7 History classes have since reflected on the Museum Morning and have begun to connect their history learning to broader skills like collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking. Although our semester together is coming to an end, we hope that their interest and passion continues when they return to their history studies in Year 8!

The Year 7 History Team

The Museum Morning was a spectacular event with lots of knowledge found. I loved talking to other students who came to my exhibit, giving them extra knowledge and a greater understanding of our exhibit and Ancient Rome. I really enjoyed painting the stand for our models to sit on and making a fantastic canva poster. I loved the Indus Valley coffin because all the members had a deep understanding of this artefact which was a massive homemade wood coffin with old brush strokes and a skeleton bringing the artefact some character. 

Jensen Blutman, Year 7

In the process of the Museum Exhibit Task, I enjoyed making the poster about Ancient Romans diets, as I found out so much more information on what they ate. Did you know that they ate roasted peacock? On the Museum Morning, I loved seeing what everyone's artefact looked like and what research they gathered. My favourite exhibit I saw was the Ancient Roman colosseum filled with lego characters! It showed someone fighting a cheetah and I liked that there was lots of effort put into the making of it. 

Kylie Wu, Year 7

I enjoyed the Museum Exhibit Task because I could come up and discuss things with my partner/friend, Jaden. I enjoyed that we were able to make artefacts and labels on our own, letting us do what we wanted. I enjoyed the Museum Morning because I could learn things from different civilisations. I was also able to compare our exhibit to other exhibits, and to see how the other groups did differently from ours and how we could improve on. My favourite exhibit was the Ancient Roman artefact of Neptune's statue. It was very detailed and explained specifically in the label. 

Tak Odagane, Year 7

In the Museum Exhibit Task, I really enjoyed researching and learning more about Ancient Rome. I also enjoyed building our artefact the catapult. In the Museum Morning I really enjoyed looking at everyone's artefacts that they made. It was very interesting to see the different artefacts from the different civilisations. My favourite exhibit was definitely Gabriel and Anthony's bread exhibit; they had a bread doll that was selling the bread and a lovely piece of homemade bread that I really wanted to eat.

Cormac Dixon, Year 7

The Museum Exhibit Task was certainly the best task of the entire semester, walking around and learning about all the civilisations and artefacts. The morning was a highlight of this term and maybe even this year. Designing and planning of what we were going to make was definitely my favourite part as I loved making adjustments and editing to perfect the idea I had in my head. My favourite exhibit I saw this morning was Angie and Melinda’s scale colosseum as it featured our very own Miss Aneil as the brave fighter facing a fearsome camel.

April Le Mar, Year 7

I really enjoyed working with my partner Christian, designing the label and the poster, and choosing the different models to make along with just learning a lot about religion in Ancient Greece. I enjoyed the fact that I was able to tell other people about our research, and I also enjoyed being able to see what other people made and learn about different places than just Ancient Greece. My favourite exhibit that I saw was the Great Wall of China. It was made out of tape, popsicle sticks, clay and lego figurines, and I'm sure it took them a long time to make. 

Danny Israel, Year 7