Today we went on a few gallery visits we started off with The national football Museum where we were given a task to observe students and young children acting in a trip environment. Unfortunately there weren't many children at this museum but I did take a look around and noticed how interactive the football museum was, the museum had many interactive games and televisions. It's a great place for young children to go and learn in a fun way. There were many interactive touch screen games, magnetic games, puzzles, dress up and also table football.
During our time at the national football museum we also had a session with the museum educator and she told us a bit about her job role and also sessions that they ran at the museum. It was a good learning experience, she told us that they ran sessions for adults, children and also toddlers. Sessions with toddlers were exploring their senses and also story telling. They have different sessions for each age range. She also gave tips on how to get attention such as clapping and lowering your voice for them to listen up. She also emphasised the fact that managing the behaviour of students wasn't part of her job and talking to the teachers or carers that brought the students is the answer.
We then went onto The Museum of Science and Industry this time it was filled with young school children! There were more than one school so it was crazy. The things that I had notices were children weren't fully engaging with what was on in the museum as they were running around and playing with with the different interaction parts of the museums I noticed this in particularly the younger children. I think their excitement levels are high as they were outside school and in a new environment. I witnessed one of the teachers shout at the children to behave but they'd continued to misbehave. I think if I was the teacher of these children I would out them into small groups and give them a task to complete that way you know they're engaging in the museum visit and you're also aware of what they are doing and the children know they have a task to complete to take back to school.
With older children I saw that they engaged more in what was going on in the museum in one part there was a talk going on where everyone was sat down and listening to someone who works at the museum give a talk this is also a good way to get everyone's attention at once and a good way of educating everyone together.
I then went off to The Manchester museum with some of my group to have a look if there was anything interesting going on there. I looked around and found interest in the tribal section of the museum I thought this was a good thing to do for the second part of our task which was to create a workshop where you will have no face-to-face engagement with your audience. Looking around the museum they had worksheets dotted around for children to do whilst they visited the museum this influenced me to write my own worksheet for children to do when they visited the museum particularly for the tribal section. Questions that I asked on the worksheet were:
- Looking at the different tribal patterns that are on display can you name some of the shapes you can see?
- What do you think these tribal textiles were used for?
- What modern day techniques do you think you can use to make similar designs? E.g. Batik, weave
- Using different colours and repetitive shapes can you make a tribal pattern but with a new modern take. You could include patterns and shapes that you feel are popular in today's society.
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