Yesterday the group of kids who played Sembl on paper last September returned to the Museum to play the prototype game *on iPad*. Cath reports on their response. Read more >
The Sembl prototype will soon be playable! Here, Cath introduces the concept at the core of the game, as a prelude to an online tutorial for teachers. Read more >
The future of remote learning at the Museum is looking good – new gear, plenty of ideas, and a trip to Tassie. Read more >
Sometimes an exhibition-in-progress is more interesting to students (and educators!) than a fully finished one. Read more >
I wanted to reply/comment on Ange’s post Freeze, insect! but also wanted to add some images so I’m making a new post. Ange’s post reminded me of our ‘Then and Now’ program for preschoolers through to Year 4 students. ‘Then and Now’ looks at daily life in the past in comparison with our lives now. [...] Read more >
In response to increasing reports of frontier conflict between Aboriginal and European people in Tasmania, Governor Arthur issued proclamation boards like the one below. The idea was to encourage friendship and show equality between Aboriginal and European people. The proclamation boards were nailed to trees in 1830 in the hope that both Aboriginal and European people would [...] Read more >
When I first started working at the National Museum of Australia I was blown away by all the fascinating objects we let the students handle. Some of the objects are replicas, as the conservation team would have a nervous breakdown if we let students handle the artifacts, but some of the objects are the real deal, including [...] Read more >
It’s springtime, and that means BUGS, SPIDERS, FLIES and all sorts of insects abound, and that (in turn) gets us thinking two things: More house work How do museums stop creepycrawlies? The education mob was provided with some answers to our second thought by Donna Wilks, a preventative technical officer who works for the conservation [...] Read more >
We had some senior students in yesterday exploring veracity, omission and bias in primary sources, and ended up having an interesting discussion about the perception people have of reliability in relation to visual texts. Read more >
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