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Digital Cultural Adventures | Museum of Chinese Australian History
Digital Cultural Adventures bring the Chinese Museum to your classroom! Choose from a range of themed programs to learn about the Chinese Museum collection. Suitable for primary and secondary levels, Digital Cultural Adventures address Victorian curriculum, such as History and Intercultural Understanding. Students can learn about the amazing inventions from Ancient China, hear about dragons...
More about the program
The Museum of Chinese Australian History (Chinese Museum) located in Melbourne’s Chinatown is a popular Excursion destination for schools to learn about migration, the goldrush, ancient Chinese dynasties, festivals and traditions, with over 400,000 Victorian school children visiting over the years.
Our Education team has now developed a new incursion program, that brings the museum directly into the classroom and includes artmaking, Kung Fu, and object-based learning. We embraced digital technologies to inspire new learning programs through this latest offering - Digital Cultural Adventures.
What are Digital Cultural Adventures?
This program helps educators of all levels to enrich their classroom program by drawing inspiration from the Chinese Museum collection to provide authentic experiences that promote intercultural understanding.
How is the program conducted?
From the comfort of their classroom or home, students can participate through videoconferencing. Each session aims to entice the senses through music, drawing and video. Interaction is encouraged – students and teachers can ask our instructor questions throughout the session.
What does the program include?
· 45-minutes with a trained museum guide
· Drawing activity
· A take-home souvenir for each student participating
· Victorian curriculum-aligned worksheets
· Half-price family pass for each student to visit the museum
Please visit our website for the different program options available: https://www.chinesemuseum.com.au/pages/category/digital-cultural-adventure
Collingwood College LOTE TEAM
MESSAGE FROM THE COLLINGWOOD COLLEGE GREEN TEAM
As I am writing this, the Australian government is deciding how they are going to spend the billions of dollars of COVID-19 recovery funds. This critical decision could lead us towards a future of clean, renewable energy and systems which could be put in place to help recover from the climate crisis we’re currently facing. But instead, the government is planning to invest this money in the gas industry. This solution would be both devastating to the environment and not in cooperation with the goals of the Paris Agreement signed in 2016.
Gas mining and transportation is a leading contributor to greenhouse gas pollution. The projects proposed by the government threaten sacred First Nations land, which will not only increase the devastating impact of climate change but negatively impact Australia’s reconciliation process with First Nations people. Young people around Australia are concerned about this prospect and are taking action to let the government know that we care, and are worried about our future. On the 25th, there will be a national day of action! We want to fund a future that is not dependent on fossil fuels but moving towards renewable energy and sustainable jobs.
The Collingwood College Green team is encouraging you to take action! You can support this national movement by:
Wearing yellow
Creating a sign! It could say ‘#fundourfuturenotgas”
Organise an online meet with friends or family with a sign and take screenshots
Take a photo in your yellow clothes with your sign!
Leave your sign on display out the front of your house on September 25
Send your photos with the Collingwood College Green Team via hannahy@collingwood.vic.edu.au before September 24!
We’ll share these photos with the community via the newsletter and Instagram, with the action organisers and with Adam Bandt and Richard Wynne and the Mayor of the City of Yarra.
We think this is important because:
We want to ensure a safe and enjoyable future
We want to reduce our anxiety about the state of the climate
We want to protect Aboriginal Peoples’ sacred sites
We don't all want to die from climate change
We want to preserve world heritage ecosystems
Of the more intense bush fire season that we experienced last summer.
Join us on September 25th to take action against climate change and spread the message to Fund Our Future Not Gas!
Dubhessa Bryant, 9C
Collingwood College Green Team
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