Last Thursday MLH headed to the Tairawhiti Museum and the Electric Village for more learning to support our Retro Tech inquiry topic.Half of us had a hands on time at the museum with old gadgets, while the other half of us headed to the Electric Village to find out more about electricity and where to in the future.
RETRO TECH @ THE MUSEUM
We discussed what gadgets we knew about and looked at some from the museum archives - mostly around communicating: camera's, typewriters, quill pens, record players, gramophones etc. A couple of boys got stuck with a tape recorder. Have a giggle at the video of them trying to work out what it was and how it worked!
We then got to write our names with a quill pen and ink.... lots of practice needed! We were amazed that this is how so many people used to write. You certainly got messy fingers!We had a look through Wyllie Cottage (the oldest European style house in the Gisborne area, built in 1872) where there were lots of kitchen gadgets were on display and some old fashioned games for us to play.
ELECTRIC VILLAGE
This was really fun! We learnt about renewable and sustainable electricity resources and how & why e-transport is getting so big. We got to have a go on e-scooters (so cool!) and play with coding robots and a game that took a lot of concentration to not make a BUZZ sound!
We learnt about electric cars, bikes, scooters and even motorbikes! It made us think alot about our future because this stuff will be all around us soon... imagine when it will become Retro!!
Hi MLH
ReplyDeleteI like how you put in videos and photos and not a ton of writing.I didn't like using the quill because it got ink all over you.When will we go next?Your blog post reminded me of doing skids on the e scooter.
Angus
Hi MLH. The Electric Village looks very fun especially riding the E scooter. Next time could you tell us how fast it goes. Thanks, from Henry.
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ReplyDeleteTYhat sounded like a great trip into a time warp of the past. I grew up with some of those gadgets and I can see how they may have been hard to work too. Interesting to think of what it would be like going the other way with someone from the past landing and then looking at a virtual reality headset. I enjoyed the way you may us think about what it will be like when the new technology of today becomes retro