Students from Taieri College visited us twice during the month of November! Different camps with different Taieri students visited us on the 12th November and again on the 26th November.

Both times these students visited, they had a MASSIVE day! These are the activities all the students did with us here at the Lakes District Museum & Gallery:

• A frightening lesson in an 1800's school room with Miss Gray (we learned about how technology has made learning a lot easier)
• A historic walk of Arrowtown which included a visit to the Old Gaol (we learned how buildings used roof lanterns to get light before electricity)
• A museum visit which included handling artefacts (objects like the Moa bone and pounamu mere explained to us how people used to live)
• A tour of the Chinese settlement where we heard about a scary ghost story! (The Chinese huts were made out of Schist stone and wood)
• And gold panning!! One girl found a HUGE piece of gold - it was the biggest I had ever seen come out of the Arrow river whilst I have been working here! (we learned different methods of panning to help us find gold)

Phew - what a busy month!

Who found gold?

Do you think gold panning is easy or hard? Why?

Do you think learning in an 1800's school room is easy or hard? Why?

Who was Marry Cotters tree named after?

Who was the first person to discover gold in the Arrow river?

Why did the Chinese settlers come to Central Otago?

What was a pounamu mere used for?

Answer my questions and comment about your visit below!