Auckland War Memorial Museum, never a dull moment...

Photo credits: Mandy C

 This past weekend we took our classes to Auckland Museum and it was really neat to see them enjoying their learning journey around Maori taonga (treasures) and reading the stories behind each artefact.

It was also neat to view the 'Secret of the butterflies' exhibition which was very interesting in which our little one digitally paint a butterfly and then watched it fly away digitally. A very engaging interact platform for young ones to learn about what some of the secrets of the butterflies were: i.e. eyes on their wings that can scare off insects, the fact that some butterflies that look similar fly together although some may be poisonous to the untrained eye.

I think that the interesting time for some was in the engagement of each individual into a group task and then having to find some information out on those topics. And it was so neat to see the updated Pasifika and Maori sections that houses a lot of information with still much more missing but it is a strart to begin to capture what is happening in our histories.

When then went to the Joseph Savage memorial gardens for lunch up on Bastion Point and then went back to campus for some more work. When it was finally time to have dinner and watch the rugby matches in class, I continued studied and by the time I got home from the weekend, I was all bugged out but it was a profitable weekend...