Queensland Museum Kits

The Queensland Museum provides kits to schools, playgroups, kindergartens, and home school groups. The kits include sets of museum pieces for classroom use.

Bookings are essential for the Museum Kits. Please contact Gympie Library on 54810859.

Click on a title to discover more information about the kit, what is in it and how it relates to the school syllabus.

Kits for 2024

Solomon Islands #4

HASS: What would it be like to live in a neighbouring country? (GEOGRAPHY Year 3 ACHASSK067 ACHASSK069) – QCAA: Exploring places near and far How do places, people and cultures differ across the world? What are Australia’s global connections between people and places? (GEOGRAPHY Year 6 ACHASSK140 ACHASSK141)

Eggs #5

Explore and compare different life cycles of animals.
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Earth's Resources #5

7 learner-led team inquiry to explore why rocks and minerals are important resources.
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CULTURAL NOTE: contains material relating to First Nations Peoples of Australia

We Remember ANZAC Day #7

HASS: How can stories of the past be told and shared? What stories do other people tell about the past? (HISTORY Prep ACHASSK012) What remains of the past are important to the local community? Why? (HISTORY Year 2 ACHASSK045) How and why do people choose to remember significant events of the past? (HISTORY Year 3 ACHASSK064)

Nocturnal #3

SCIENCE: Living things have a variety of external features (BIOLOGICAL Year 1 ACSSU017) Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment (BIOLOGICAL Year 5 ACSSU043)
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Pests & Threats #5

Investigate how human activity and the introduction of new species affect the survival of species.
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Kitchen c1930s-1950s #3

HASS: How has family life changed or remained the same over time? (HISTORY Year 1 ACHASSK030) How have changes in technology shaped our daily life? (HISTORY Year 2 ACHASSK046) > SCIENCE: Objects are made of materials that have observable properties (CHEMICAL SCIENCES Prep ACSSU003)

Rocks & Minerals #5

8 learner-led team inquiry to explore observable properties of minerals and rocks.
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