As part of our first NCEA Level 1 Visual Art standard, my class had a visit to the Auckland Museum this week. This is part of our work on assessment standard AS91912 - Use practice-based visual inquiry to explore an Aotearoa New Zealand Māori context and another cultural context. Our theme for this standard is Taonga. In class we have looked at personal taonga and school taonga. This trip to the museum forms the basis for looking at New Zealand taonga. Link to my planning here.
We had an organised tour around the Marae - link to Museum information where our guide explained all the parts of the Marae and told stories and myths to the students. This made them laugh, picturing the shapes of fish and how they were formed in the story of Tangaroa
We then had a fun session of working in pairs making tukutuku. The students were timed, having a race making aline in the pattern. The fastest was 1 minute 50 seconds!!
The second half of our visit to the Museum was focussed in the artefact gallery. The student shad to look around the display cases and choose what they wanted to draw. This was a huge ask for the students to have to do as drawing in public is always quite intimidating. We took paper and drawing equipment with us and the museum supplies stools to sit on.
When we get back into the classroom, the students will complete their drawings of the artefacts and use these as the starting points of their pages for this part of the standard. Link to planning for this section here.
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