PRIMARY
These short focal activities are designed to enhance your Skydeck experience. Each activity will help develop observation skills whilst utilizing the magnificent views.
Skydeck Explorer
VELS Level 3 & 4
Looking for a fun and exciting school camp activity booklet? Students will help our Skydeck mascot Deckstar explore Melbourne and its landmarks by completing questions, mazes word finds and much more!
Skydeck Explorer Activity Book
Melbourne's Treasures
VELS Level 3 & 4
Melbourne's Treasures focuses directly on the Melbourne area, giving students the opportunity to learn about the many different historical and key cultural landmarks the magnificent city of Melbourne has to offer. Students investigate the type of landmarks around Melbourne, what they are used for and their location
Melbourne's Treasures Worksheet
Melbourne's Treasures VELS Table
Eureka "I found it!"
VELS Level 3 & 4
This short team building activity is great addition to any City Excursion! Students must work together gathering information about the Eureka Tower and Melbourne's Landmarks. .
Eureka "I Found It!" Worksheet
Eureka "I Found It!" VELS Table
Mapping Melbourne
VELS Level 3 & 4
Mapping Melbourne focuses directly on student's geospatial skills. Students are provided with a series of photographs of each compass point and they are to use their observation skills to identify all the key landmarks.
Mapping Melbourne Worksheet
Mapping Melbourne VELS Table
Picture Melbourne
VELS Level 3 & 4
This activity allows students to create a visual observation of Melbourne's City from the highest public vantage point in the Southern Hemisphere. Students are to demonstrate their perception of the city in their own way by producing a drawing that shows a section of Melbourne from a bird's eye view.
Picture Melbourne Worksheet
Picture Melbourne VELS Table
Eureka Tower Fact Finder
VELS Level 3 & 4
This worksheet provides students with a more focused experience on the building and its structure. Students are also able to utilize the observation viewfinders around the Skydeck identifying specific landmarks using the floor plan and pictures provided. This activity will not only help students to be aware of specific landmarks around our city but also give them perspective of the placement and direction in regard to Eureka Tower itself.
Eureka Tower Fact Finder Worksheet (1mb)
Eureka Tower Fact Finder VELS Table
Our City
VELS Level 1-4
These fun and flexible activity booklets focus on the Eureka Tower and Melbourne, giving students the opportunity to learn about local landmarks and the tower's construction. By using the 30 viewfinders and 360 degree views, students can better their observation skills and sense of direction.
Our City - Level 1 & 2 Worksheet
Our City - Level 1 & 2 VELS Table
Our City - Level 3 Worksheet
Our City - Level 3 VELS Table
Our City - Level 4 Worksheet
Our City - Level 4 VELS Table
I Spy
VELS Level 1 - 4
This fun activity will encourage your student's observation skills whilst still utilizing the magnificent view from the Eureka Skydeck. Students have to find an object or place starting with each individual letter of the Alphabet.
I Spy Worksheet (770kb)
SECONDARY
Melbourne City Experience
Eureka Skydeck 88 has a number of activities on offer to include in your City Experience. Choose one that best suits your program.
Eureka Skydeck's Great Melbourne Race
VELS Level 5 & 6
This fun and exciting activity gets students to navigate, problem solve and complete team challenges around Melbourne's CBD. Starting at the highest public vantage point in the southern hemisphere this activity encourages communication, planning strategies, team-work and collaboration.
Great Melbourne Race Clues
Great Melbourne Race Teacher Notes
Great Melbourne Race City Map
Great Melbourne Race VELS Table
Melbourne's Treasures
VELS Level 5 & 6
Melbourne's Treasures focuses directly on the Melbourne area, giving students the opportunity to learn about the many different historical and key cultural landmarks the magnificent city of Melbourne has to offer. Students investigate the type of landmarks around Melbourne, what they are designed and used for and their location.
Melbourne's Treasures Worksheet
Melbourne's Treasures VELS Table
Eureka "I found it!"
VELS Level 5 & 6
This short team building activity is great addition to any City Experience or Amazing Race! Students must work together by gathering information about the Eureka Tower and Melbourne's Landmarks.
Eureka "I Found it!" Worksheet
Eureka "I Found it!" VELS Table
Mapping Melbourne
VELS Level 5 & 6
This worksheet focuses directly on student's geospatial skills. Students are provided with a bird's eye view of Melbourne, where they need to use their visual skills to identify and annotate the key and cultural landmarks.
Mapping Melbourne Worksheet
Mapping Melbourne VELS Table
Picture Melbourne
VELS Level 5 & 6
This activity allows students to create a visual observation of Melbourne's City. Students are to demonstrate their perception of the city in their own way by producing a drawing or a series of photographs that shows a section of Melbourne. With a multitude of vantage points around the Skydeck, students can pinpoint their unique bird's-eye view of Melbourne from their own perspective.
Picture Melbourne Worksheet
Picture Melbourne VELS Table
Sustainable Living
VELS Level 5 & 6
This worksheet examines the sustainable living practices of the Eureka Tower and the effects on urban living. Students will look at how Eureka Tower was constructed, the materials used and the technology that runs from the Skydeck. This worksheet will challenge students to analyse the benefits and pitfalls of multi-story residential building and its impact on the city.
Sustainable Living Worksheet
Sustainable Living VELS Table
Urban Environments
VELS Level 5 & 6
This worksheet provides geography students an opportunity to look at Melbourne as an Urban Environment. Students specifically examine and identify the human and natural features of the city by completing field sketches, annotating maps and identifying the percentage of natural landmarks within the city and their importance
Urban Environments Worksheet
Urban Environments VELS Table
Buildings & Structures
VELS Level 5 & 6
These fun and flexible activity booklets focus on the different buildings and structures located within the city of Melbourne. Students will have the opportunity to learn about the many different historical and key cultural landmarks and examine how Melbourne has changed over time and what they think it will be like in the future.
Buildings & Structures - Level 5 Worksheet
Buildings & Structures - Level 5 VELS Table
Buildings & Structures - Level 6 Worksheet
Buildings & Structures - Level 6 VELS Table
VCE
Take learning beyond the classroom! Venture out of the classroom and allow students to apply their knowledge to the outside world.
Business Management
VCE Unit 2
This worksheet focuses on the essential characteristics of effective marketing. Students apply selected market research methods to the business environment using Eureka Skydeck as a real life example. Students begin to apply and analyze effective marketing strategies and processes and start to examine public relations, objectives, strategies and tactics that are used in a range of planned and un-planned business situations.
Business Management Worksheet
Psychology - Visual Perception
VCE Unit 3
This worksheet focuses on the organisation in visual perception and challenges students to define and identify real life examples of the Gestalt principles (figure- ground, closure, similarity, proximity), and depth perception cues (monocular - accommodation, pictorial cues, linear perspective, interposition, texture gradients, relative size and height in the visual field) from the 88th floor of the Eureka Skydeck.
Visual Perception Worksheet
French
VCE Unit 4
Become a French Tourist for the day! Using the French visitors guide, direct yourself around the Skydeck to discover information about the building and identify some of Melbourne's historic and cultural landmarks.
Eureka Fact Finder - French
French Visitor Guide
Japanese
VCE Unit 4
Become a Japanese Tourist for the day! Using the Japanese visitors guide, direct yourself around the Skydeck to discover information about the building and identify some of Melbourne's historic and cultural landmarks.
Eureka Fact Finder Japanese
Japanese Visitor Guide