The children have been ‘flying’ over various places using Google Earth.

Stemming from the children’s recent inquiries regarding world travel destinations and the diversity of global languages, a new imaginative play area has been developed in collaboration with the children. The picture storybooks For Every Child by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and Whoever You Are by Mem Fox, as well as diversity dolls serve as provocations for play and learning. The storybooks focus on the poignant, open questions: “What makes all these children different and what makes them the same?” Below are some of the children’s responses to these questions.

What makes all these children different?

• Heidi – Different people have different eye colour and hair.
• Grace – Different tops, different clothes because they are in different countries. Hot and cold.
• Ivy – Different kinds of food.

What makes them the same?

• Nina – Their kindness.
• Grace – Their heart.
• Ella G – Their happiness. The inside of their skin.

The children have been invited to embark upon ‘virtual journeys’, flying over various places on the planet using Google Earth and the classroom computer. Thus far, the children have ‘flown’ to New York City, Paris and Melbourne. The children have mused that “this is what Bunjil and the birds see”.