By Cath on 25 October, 2012
Introducing… The Museum Game – a video introduction, curriculum links, and a booking form :) Read more >
Posted in Be involved, Program, The Museum Game | Tagged children, critical thinking, culture, engagement, English, exhibitions, games, history, interactive, photographs
By Cath on 30 May, 2012
Presenting… Tricia Meier, teacher of a Year 5/6 class at Curtin Primary School, talking about her and her class’ experience of playing Sembl at the Museum. Read more >
Posted in Program, The Museum Game | Tagged Arts, children, competition, critical thinking, engagement, English, exhibitions, games, history, inclusion, interactive, resonance, teaching, technology
By Cath on 15 May, 2012
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 >
Posted in Objects, The Museum Game | Tagged children, collaboration, engagement, exhibitions, games, interactive, iPad, social learning, technology
By Cath on 16 April, 2012
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 >
Posted in Be involved, Classroom resources, Objects, Program, The Museum Game | Tagged children, creativity, divergent thinking, games, teaching
By Cath on 30 September, 2011
This week we hosted a group of 23 local students, aged 9 to 11, to playtest Sembl and share their experience with us. It was very useful for us, and fun all round, so thanks, 4/5TM from Curtin Primary. Read more >
Posted in Program, The Museum Game | Tagged children, engagement, games, iPads, mobile
By Susannah on 17 March, 2011
Sometimes an exhibition-in-progress is more interesting to students (and educators!) than a fully finished one. Read more >
Posted in Exhibition, Inspiration, Objects, Program | Tagged children, conservation, engagement, museology, teaching, wonder
By Cath on 14 February, 2011
Teaching or learning about Indigenous culture and history? See the following clips, produced during development of the exhibition Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route. Read more >
Posted in Classroom resources | Tagged art, children, culture, history, Indigenous, video
By Cath on 9 December, 2010
A display by Juliet Morelli, which won the Museum’s prize in the 2010 National History Challenge, will be exhibited in the Hall of the National Museum of Australia this summer. Read more >
Posted in Exhibition | Tagged children, Indigenous, museology, sport
By Susannah on 22 November, 2010
The National Museum of Australia is a fantastic place to work. Apart from the joy of working in this magnificent place with its wealth of objects and stories, an education officer’s work is infinitely enriched by the many children who take part in our programs. Every child is different, so although we may do our [...] Read more >
Posted in Be involved, Inspiration | Tagged children, engagement, teaching
By Ange on 12 November, 2010
A lot of people have been doing a lot of talking about the way we teach history, why students engage with this subject and, more importantly, why they disengage. One response to this is the developing national curriculum. Any sort of curriculum is going to try and achieve a balance between content, skills and methodology, [...] Read more >
Posted in Be involved | Tagged children, culture, emotional engagement, history, storytelling, theatre
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