MENTAL: Online Interactive Tour
Details
Available: Term 1 & 2 for regional Victorian students
Sessions: Flexible to fit with school timetable
Duration: 45-90 minutes
Year Level: 7–12
Capacity: Flexible
Students are invited to take part in an online interactive tour of MENTAL, the inaugural exhibition at Science Gallery Melbourne. This online tour showcases future-focused technologies that explore mental wellbeing and bring together current scientific research in new innovative ways.
Science Gallery learning facilitators – trained, passionate STEM university students – will lead students through the works centring thought-provoking discussion relating to the exhibition themes.
This program is delivered via a virtual classroom and the duration of this program is flexible to fit in with your school timetable and will focus on a selection of artworks from the exhibition.
Content warning: This exhibition contains some intense sensory experiences, confined spaces and lived experience of mental health.
+ Students will…
Contemplate the implications of art and science co-existing, as they are welcomed to Science Gallery Melbourne.
Undertake a STEM facilitator-led tour of MENTAL, engaging with the key concepts of the exhibition.
Informally engage with University student facilitators to learn about STEM pathways.
Reflect with the group their experiences, thoughts and the impact of the exhibition.
+ Curriculum Links
Critical and Creative Thinking
Health and Physical Education
Personal and Social Capability
Science
Visual Arts
+ Themes
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Connection
Emotional intelligence
Empathy
Lived experience
Mental health maintenance
Social media
Stereotypes and biases
Technology
Wellbeing
+ Cost
Available free of charge to schools that are based in a Victorian regional area according to the Department of Education and Training Regions & Areas Map.
