For Teachers - Programme Options
NEW!!! GOLD 150 
In conjunction with the Arrowtown and Otago Gold 150 celebrations we are offering ‘Introduction to GOLD’ programme. This programme involves a range of activities including
- ‘Life as a Miner’ challenge - could you live like a miner?
- Historic walk investigating Buckingham Street buildings - what buildings still exist from 150 years ago?
- Being a GOLD ‘detective’ in the Museum - what is gold? how do you mine for it?
As we are nearly booked for Term 2 we have extended this programme to Term 3!
To book either do so through this website or email us!
NEED SOME INSPIRATION FOR YOUR NEXT ART or TECHNOLOGY MODULE?
For 3 weeks only!!!
5th – 29th June 2012
We are offering a special exhibition programme showcasing the wonderful
Wallace and Gibbs “Art 2 Wear” from the Arrowtown Autumn Festival.
Individualized two/three hour programmes for Primary & Secondary schools including:
- Exhibition viewing
- Critique of the designs
And a
- ‘Fashion show’ challenge!
NOTE: This runs totally inside the museum (to shelter from the weather!) and is limited to 30 students at one time
Social Sciences Year 1 - 10 (Curriclum Links)
- Hands on learning focusing on gold and life in 19th century New Zealand based in the Museum. (CH, PE, TCC, REA)
- Learn about Maori in the Lakes District using legend, drama and artefacts. (CH, PE, TCC)
- Walk through Arrowtown and stop at a miner's cottage, be locked up in agoldfields gaol and visit Mary McKillop's cottage. (SO, CH)
- Explore the Chinese settlement and discover what life was like for these
industrious immigrants. (PE, TCC, REA)
- Stake a claim and try your hand at gold panning in the Arrow River with an expert tutor. (PE, REA)
- Experience a class with Miss Gray in our 1880s school house. (SO, CH)
- Learn how to make butter and rag mats. (CH)
- Get hands-on with artefacts. (CH, PE, TCC, REA)
- Use the cemetery to learn about social class, religion, death and disease. (SO, CH)
Key: SO = Social Organisation, CH = Culutre & Heritage, PE = Place & Environment
TCC = Time, Continunity & Change, REA = Resources & Economic Activity.
Other options
Schoolyard games; Photographic Interpretation; Communication; Electricity; Transport; War and the Wakatipu; Inventions; Women in the Wakatipu.
As well as the established options above, the education officer is willing to work with you to develop a session that suits your needs.
Exhibition Gallery
Our exhibition gallery has a constantly changing array of art work and local history exhibitions with special education programmes run in conjunction. View our blog to see what is showing when you plan to visit.
Timing: Allow 75 minutes for each option.
Cost: Maximum cost $5.00 per student. Teachers and caregivers free of charge.
Senior studies
As well as the established programmes below, the education officer is willing to work with you to develop a session that suits your assessment requirements.
History
Use the Wakatipu as a living classroom by visiting historic sites. Learn how to use a variety of primary and secondary resources in our purpose built archives facility. Where students can immerse themselves and get enthusiastic about research!
- NCEA 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3 - Introduction to primary sources
- NCEA 2.1 / 2.2 / 2.5 - Communicate historical ideas
- NCEA 3.1 / 3.2 / 3.3 - Historical method
- Put 19th century New Zealand into context - great for inspiring Year 13 students for their external assessment.
Try and allow at least a full day (most schools spend two days) to allow your students to get as much research done as possible.
"Students were able to do a lot of research and enjoyed it! Having access to lots of primary and secondary sources and material they would not normally see was very useful." Year 11 teacher
Geography
- NCEA 1.1 - An extreme natural event and the human response - Flood!
- NCEA 1.3 - Resource use in farming and mining context - Grapes and Gold
- NCEA 2.1 Explain a natural landscape - The effects of human activities on natural landscape: South Island High Country, Queenstown Lakes & Central Otago
- NCEA 3.2 - Tourism as a cultural process - Queenstown: A case study
- More geography options being developed - inquire with the education officer
Allow at least half a day to cover each geography option. Sessions can be made longer or shorter to suit your class needs. Access to primary materials such as photographs, newspapers and oral history extracts can be made available. Visits to appropriate sites can be arranged through the education officer. Contact the education officer to discuss your needs.
"An integral part of my Year 13 programme" Year 13 teacher
Economics, English, Art and Photography students are also ably catered for at the Lakes District Museum.