This education programme runs alongside our temporary exhibition, "From Morse to Messaging: Communication History in the Waipa", with students examining the importance of people staying connected, and the changing technology that has allowed them to do so.
The museum-based activites are custom designed through consultation with the classroom teacher and are based around their learning intentions. An effort is made to ensure all main points are taught through something to see, hear and do.
A typical programme runs for 90 minutes, and may consist of the following:
- Discussion based on historic photos and film
- Presentation on the changes and similarities in how we communicate
- Making and decoding morse messages
- Use of a switch board to connect phone calls
- Writing with ink nib pens
- Interactive activites allow the students to engage with our temporary displays
- Focused hands-on experience with collection objects
- Student and teacher resources are avaliable.
Curriculum links could include:
Social Science - Time, Continuity and Change
Technology -
Languages/English -
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