Years 7 - 13 programme

Educator led programmes in galleries and classrooms

Te Ao Hurihuri / programmes for schools in the War Memorial / ANZAC / New Zealand Speciation / Human Evolution / Gatasi Pasifika / a venue for sketching / programmes in Te Reo / plays / Japanese language and culture programme Y9-11 (offered as a trial in 2008).

Most are available throughout the school year, subject to educator and gallery availability.
Our diverse galleries provide opportunities for a range of learning areas; speak/ work with our educators to negotiate specific contexts and learning outcomes.
More information about each programme is available below. Charges apply.

Access to temporary exhibitions 

In 2008 the exhibition for which entry fees apply is:
T Rex Named Sue (Nov '08 - March '09)

The temporary exhibitions for 2008 for which no fees apply are:
Nuclear Free (until May) / Army Art: Paintings by Captain Matt Gauldie (Mar- Jun)

Please note: Temporary exhibitions can sometimes change

The chance to self guide  

In the galleries, using the research facilities of the three information centres and Te Pataka Matapuna- the archival collections of the museum library.

Other opportunities for schools 

Maori Culture Performance group (3-4 daily performances) Charges apply / Metazoa (Feb) Charges apply / Children’s Discovery Centres Charges apply / Training for teachers to use the museum as a venue for teaching Thinking Skills Charges apply / Celebrate Pasifika / Matariki / Civil Defence lectures (last Thursday of each month)

Charges apply

Membership of the Museum Institute

Access to international quality after-hours lectures and performances at modest prices (seat limits apply) / advance notification of these / often suitable for gifted and talented students.

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 He Taonga Maori: Te Ao Hurihuri

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He Taonga Maori: Te Ao Hurihuri

Term 1
25 Feb - 11 March

Term 2
5 May - 4 July

Term 3
28 July - 25 Sept

To Ao Hurihuri offers students opportunities to engage more comprehensively with selected taonga from the He Taonga Maori gallery. Sessions are conducted in the gallery and aim to provide a tikanga Maori approach to some of the taonga from this collection. Through real and replica objects this programme looks too at the materials, the technologies and the skills of early Maori people.

To Ao Hurihuri is delivered in two ways
1. In Te Reo to Year 1-13 students
2. In English to Year 7-8, 9-10 students.
  

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• Te Ao Turoa gallery
• Maori Cultural Performance group.

$3 per student [plus other charges according to choice] 

All years

 Tala Pasifika: Gatasi Pasifika

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Tala Pasifika: Gatasi Pasifika

Terms 2 and 3

This Tala Pasifika programme focuses upon the navigation and settlement of the Pacific. It was created to reinforce the Learning Media publications ‘Discovering Our Ancestors’ and ‘Hawaiki’ but also suits other publications some schools use, provided you are prepared to consider recent evidence.

The programme addresses:
• Some of the people and disciplines involved in the care, collection and interpretation of the evidence of these ancestors, and a hands-on session with some of the material evidence.
• The navigation and settlement of the Pacific - what we know and how we know it - selected examples drawn from this museum's collections and experts
• Some aspects of the traditional material culture of Oceanic people
• Some current experiences and expressions of Pasifika identity
The three hour programme comprises
• Educator led classroom session
• Educator led gallery session
• Self guided gallery session

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For complete programme: $6 per student

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Years 7-8, 9-10 and by negotiation

 War Memorial Programmes

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War Memorial programmes

Educator led gallery programmes are available on a range of learning areas related to how New Zealanders were involved in and affected by those conflicts in which our nation engaged during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These support the research elements of a number of NCEA subjects, and incorporate object handling, the information sources of the Armoury information centre and the Cenotaph database.
These are available through the year according to gallery and educator availability.

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Armoury information centre and the Cenotaph database.

$3 per student.

 In addition we offer some limited duration programmes with a specific focus:

ANZAC Programme

Terms 1 & 2

31 March – 16 May

There are two parts to this annual programme.
1. An interactive drama which considers what attracted so many young New Zealand men to join up in 1914, army life and the Gallipoli campaign. Sessions are held in Scars on the Heart I gallery.
2. A session introducing students to the World War I Sanctuary, to the Armoury - the military information centre – and to a range of different source materials drawn from the museum’s archival collections. Includes object handling.
 

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• Scars on the Heart II (the World War II gallery)

For complete programme (drama session and World War I Sanctuary session): $8 per student

Years 7-8

June Auditorium programme

09 June – 20 June

This programme aims to provide senior students with opportunities to gain understanding and insight about war related subjects from the spoken word and to experience this as part of an auditorium audience.

We offer two different vehicles for the spoken word – drama and lecture. The play Gunner Inglorious based on the experiences and writings of Jim Henderson will again be available. The arrangements for a second play and the lecture are not yet complete.

When these details are finalised this information will posted to the HODs History, Drama and English.

We hope to offer a play and a lecture each day. One at 11am and the other at 1pm. The War Memorial and galleries support this programme.

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War Memorial and galleries

$5 per play/lecture

11am & 1pm

 Year 13 Biology

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Self Guided
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New Zealand Speciation

Referring to the Natural History galleries and objects from our handling collection this educator led programme examines the process of the speciation of selected New Zealand organisms, and  discusses examples of parallel, convergent, and adaptive radiation.

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$4 per student for New Zealand Speciation

Year 13

Human Evolution

Early hominid tools and replica skulls are used in this educator led session to discuss the links between humans and other primates, the trends in human cultural evolution; and to try to explain links between aspects of biological and cultural evolution in humans.

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$4 per student for Human Evolution

Year 13

 Japanese language and Culture

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Term 2
02 June – 13 June 

Term 3
08 Sept - 19 Sept

This trial programme is for learners of Japanese language. Initially we offer it only to Y9-11.

The programme has two parts - one takes the popular Japanese school Bunkasai festival as the theme and is offered in one of our classrooms. Here our educator leads students in three activities designed to practise students’ spoken and written Japanese within contexts revealing aspects of Japanese culture. In the process of learning students create materials to take back to school.

The other part of the programme is self led where by listening and reading students navigate a museum gallery in an exercise to practise grammar comprehension in a practical setting.

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$3 per student

Years 9 -11

 Thinking Skills Programme

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Self Guided
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During the course of 2007 a number of schools took up the offer of using the Museum as a resource for a more in-depth study of topics of their own choice. This turned out to be quite challenging but was clearly enjoyed by the students who seemed to relish the chance to apply and sharpen some of the thinking skills they were exploring in their school settings.

If your school would like to be considered for the 2008 programme please email pmillward@aucklandmuseum.com

A teacher briefing will be held for 3-4 hours in Term 1 and the selected schools will be invited to complete their on-site work in one of two or three weeks designated for the purpose in Term 4.

 All years

 Impacts: Animals Introduced to New Zealand

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Terms 2, 3 and 4

30 Apr - 14 Dec

This programme explores the impacts of introduced animal species on New Zealand’s natural environments. Concepts covered include food chains, introduced animals and ecological systems.

This 120-minute programme is led by staff of the Children’s Discovery Centre and works between the Natural History Discovery Centre, Weird & Wonderful and the Natural History galleries.

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Natural History Discovery Centre, Weird & Wonderful and the Natural History galleries

$5 per student, 120 minute

Year 7

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