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 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 6 January, 2012
Having spring-cleaned our Education & Kids online content, it’s now much easier to find resources for classroom learning that are relevant to you and your students. Read more >
Posted in Classroom resources | Tagged ease, English, primary sources, teaching
By Ange on 11 August, 2011
Ange reviews the recent world-change in the Museum’s Education team through a then and now photo duo. Read more >
Posted in Professional learning | Tagged museum education, teaching
By Jess on 13 June, 2011
History detectives have been bustling through our doors, uncovering stories and ‘reading’ sources in our program Not Just Ned: Irish Evidence. Read more >
Posted in Exhibition, Program | Tagged critical thinking, emotional engagement, storytelling, teaching
By Susannah on 11 May, 2011
How do museums represent history through their displays? How do museum educators help large groups of students who want to explore this question? Susannah reports on a recent visit by 170 year 7 students. Read more >
Posted in Exhibition, Objects, Program | Tagged critical thinking, engagement, meta, museology, teaching
By Linda on 20 April, 2011
A recent forum at the University of Canberra inspired Linda to cogitate on concepts. Read more >
Posted in Inspiration | Tagged learning, teaching
By Jess on 18 April, 2011
Australian teachers are not the only ones busily studying the new Australian Curriculum. Here at the Museum, we have been actively familiarising ourselves, with a particular focus on the History strand. Our office walls have been consumed by summary pages of the Australian Curriculum: History; we have had meetings devoted to exploring, learning and memorising the content of each year level; [...] Read more >
Posted in Be involved, Classroom resources, Inspiration | Tagged Australian Curriculum, teaching
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 2 March, 2011
This post introduces a set of resources on the National Museum website. Its starting point is resources related to Queensland, but from there it broadens to include resources of national interest. Read more >
Posted in Classroom resources, Professional learning | Tagged communications, environment, history, Indigenous, Queensland, teaching, transport
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