Teachers' Resources

These are written resources to support education programmes at the museum or offsite and they contain curriculum connections, visit and background information and pre and post - visit activities. Some resources are short term and accompany a current exhibition and some are permanent and relate to permanent programmes.

Exhibition Resources

Sounds Amazing

October 26 - December 15, Years 1 - 13

Explore the properties of sound, and the ways in which musical instruments create sounds of different pitch and amplitude.

Visiting guests with their instruments and live performance. A timeline demonstrating technological change in music production.

Supports Science and Technology Curricula.

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Years 7 - 10 Programmes

Bones of our Land

This programme takes place at the museum and takes 1 1/2 hours.

Science - Planet Earth and Beyond
L2/3 explore and describe resources such as rocks.
L4 develop an understanding that rocks are one of the earth's resources.

Opportunities for learning include

• investigating the origins rocks and rock formations of Te Tau Ihu, eg Boulder Bank, Farewell Spit, Mt Arthur, Caves in limestone.
• gathering information by hands-on investigation of rocks. Developing ideas about texture, grain size, colour, density and use.
• gathering information about fossils found in the Nelson region.
• modelling rock forming processes and sorting rocks into groups, eg sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous.
• gathering information about use of non-renewable resources such as iron ore extraction at Onekaka, copper and chromite mining at Dun Mt, gold in the Aorere, pakohe (Argillite) for tools.
• Investigating Maori tools made with pakohe.

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The Champion Copper Smelter

This programme includes a field trip to the Champion Smelter accessed through Aniseed Valley. The walk from the end of the road to the smelter is about one and a half hours.

Science	L4 Earth Systems Chemistry and Society
Social Studies	L4 How exploration and innovation create opportunities

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What's happening at Tahuna Beach?

Tahuna Beach is barely 100 years old. This programme involves a field trip to Tahuna beach. Students are provided with photographs and booklets to help them interpret the changes that have taken place and the dynamic nature of a beach.

Social Studies L3 Understand how people view and use places differently

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Years 11 - 13 Progammes

Coastal Processes in Southern Tasman Bay

The programme contributes to year 13 Geography

NCEA AS 90701 3.1 Analyse a geographic environment focusing on the interacting Natural Processes

NCEA AS 90705 3.5 Carry out geographic research with consultation.

This programme involves fieldwork at two sites on two days: The Boulder Bank, a full day and Tahuna Beach, a half day.

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Murder on the Maungatapu

This walk contributes to Year 13 History

NCEA AS 90654 3.1 Plan and carry out independent historical research.

NCEA AS 90655 3.2 Communicate historical ideas.

This programme starts at the museum and proceeds to Bridge Street and to the courthouse before returning to view the Maungatapu exhibits in the museum.

Students are issued with laminated booklets of photographs to support their investigation.

The walk lasts about 1 hour leaving approx 15minutes in the museum.

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When the Earth Moves

This printable resource has a teachers guide that includes photographs photographs and a DVD is available to borrow from the museum.

Objectives for yr 9-11

Science - Planet Earth and Beyond
Social Studies - Social Organisation
NCEA: Geography A.S. 1.1 Examine extreme natural events
Geography U.S 5083 Natural hazards

• Viewing images and hearing stories about the Inangahua and Murchison earthquakes. (Primary sources for research)
• Discussing the sequence of events that produced them.
• Learning about the way in which people respond to crisis.
• Describing these earthquakes as geological events and as hazards.

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NCEA AS90654

Carry out independent Historical Research (3.1)

Year 13 History: New Zealand in the 19th Century

The resource is designed as a model for independent research. The subject of this research is Sarah Greenwood.

The notes include ideas from these sections of the curriculum: Maori and Pakeha Relations, Economic and Political, Change Society and Attitudes

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NCEA History AS90656

Examine evidence in Historical Resources (3.3)

This resource supports a programme in which students practice the use of historical resources related to the examination style in externally assessed achievement standard AS90656.

The programme may be conducted by museum educators or by the classroom teacher at the museum.

The artefacts and images used are all in the downstairs gallery and have been selected to match themes that students should be familiar with. They can also be used as triggers to teach material related to these themes.

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Patterns of Evolution

These notes contribute to a programme for Yrs 12 and 13 Biology. The programme takes place at Natureland.

NCEA L2 AS 90459 Concepts and processes involved in genetic variation and change

NCEA L3 AS 90717 Patterns of Evolution

Students investigate the animals on display and gain information about their evolution.

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