Animal Tracks
- Ages
5–12
- Group size
15–40 children
Minimum ratio of 1 adult to 20 students- Duration
60 mins
- Cost
$15 per child
- Availability
School holidays, Wednesday and Thursday, 1.30pm and 2.30pm
Contact: bookings@nma.gov.au
Onsite program
Explore the stories of Australian animals and their relationships with people through hands-on objects, creative activities and play.
After a guided tour of our new Great Southern Land gallery, participants will visit the Discovery Centre Workshop to explore their own stories through expressive art techniques.
Framework for School Age Care outcomes
Outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of identity
- Children develop their autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience and sense of agency
- Children learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect
Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world
- Children develop a sense of belonging to groups and communities and an understanding of the reciprocal rights and responsibilities necessary for active community participation
- Children respond to diversity with respect
- Children become aware of fairness
- Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment
Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners
- Children develop dispositions such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
- Children use a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
- Children transfer and adapt what they have learn from one context to another
- Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials
Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators
- Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes
- Children engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from these texts
- Children collaborate with others, express ideas and make meaning using a range of media and communication technologies