sharing the past - Auckland Museum

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*Explain why people are interested in the past.
Time, Continuity and Change Curriculum Level 3
Students will demonstrate knowledge and understandings
of:
How the ideas and actions of people in the past
changed the lives of others:
Students could demonstrate such knowledge and
understandings when they:
*Give examples of why particular women, men,
and children in the past are remembered (e.g.,
for their courage, inventiveness, creativity,
charisma, use or abuse of power);
*Describe people's ideas and actions that
changed the lives of other people in particular
times and places.
How the past is recorded and remembered in different
ways:
Students could demonstrate such knowledge and
understandings when they:
*Identify ways people can find out about their
past;
*Explain how people's experiences and activities
have been recorded in different time and place
settings (e.g., through culture, language, technology,
art);
*explain what people in the present can learn
PRE AND POST VISIT ACTIVITIES
Year 1 - 3
· Pose a question such as: Do you remember….
when you went to the beach last year? Did you
bring back anything to remember it by? Make a
class collection.
· For home time develop a questionnaire for parents.
Do they remember some special event from
their childhood? Do they have some memento
which serves as a reminder?
· Collect some family 'treasures' or photographs
and display with permission.
· Interview or invite some grandparents or older
Auckland Museum
Te Papa Whakahiku
Sharing the Past
about people in the past through records.
Time, Continuity and Change Curriculum Level 4
Students will demonstrate knowledge and understandings
of:
Causes and effects of events that have shaped the
lives of a group of people:
Students could demonstrate such knowledge and
understandings when they:
*Describe events a group of people has experienced
over time (e.g., natural disasters, wars,
diseases and epidemics, cultural contacts);
*Identify possible causes of particular events
that people experience.
Time, Continuity and Change Curriculum Level 5
Students will demonstrate knowledge and understandings
of:
How past events have influenced relationships
within and between groups of people and continue
to influence them:
Students could demonstrate such knowledge and
understandings when they:
*Identify past events that have been important
for particular communities, cultures, and nations;
*Give examples of the ways in which past
events influenced relationships between groups
involved in those events.
folk. Prepare questions well beforehand encouraging
the open-ended type.
· Compare chores today with those from the past.
Ask selected elders to teach a skill which they
used for their chore. e.g polishing silver, or making
butter
· Bury robust items in the sandpit. Later dig them
up with the children and try to work out how the
people lived.
· Collect an imaginary family's rubbish (suitably
cleaned and vetted). From this try to reach some
conclusions about their lifestyle.
· Display some old kitchen implements or tools.
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