DISTRACTION Visit
Details
Available: August - December 2025
Levels: 7 - 12
Sessions: Wednesday to Friday at 11am-12pm, 12pm-1pm, 1pm-2pm or 2pm-3pm
Duration: Up to 1.25 hours (one module)
Capacity: Up to 50 students (no minimum)
Cost: FREE for students but bookings are essential. An Education Service Fee applies for each booking. For groups of 0-15 it’s $50, for 16-30 it’s $75 and for 31-60 it’s $100.
In this self-directed experience, students will be welcomed to the gallery with an introduction to Science Gallery Melbourne and the DISTRACTION exhibition by a Learning Team staff member. Then, led by their teachers, they will get to explore, participate and immerse in the themes and works of the DISTRACTION exhibition.
Teachers are supported with a digital resource pack to extend and tailor the student experience. For each work, the resource contains suggested discussion points and questions, activities, themes and curriculum links. There are also student activities for before and after the Exhibition Visit, accessibility (including sensory) information, and additional resources regarding the concepts, research and technologies explored in the exhibition.
Key Themes: technology, video games, augmented realities, emotional regulAtion, play
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Students will explore and participate in the transdisciplinary art-science-technology installations, experiments and works of the DISTRACTION exhibition.
Participate in discussions and activities chosen by their teacher (teachers are welcome to use the accompanying exhibition resource).
Be able to ask questions and have conversations with Mediators – our in-house communicators with expert knowledge of the science and art behind the works. -
Critical and Creative Thinking
Ethical Capability
Intercultural Capability
Personal and Social Capability
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