ECMOT Visit

What on earth is ECMOT, you ask?!
Well, it is the East Coast Museum of Technology!  A total treasure trove of all sorts of gadgets and transport from the past and we got to visit there for a WHOLE day!

We had to share our advertisements for our Retro Gadgets with Barry (who had loaned us most of the gadgets from the museum) and he let us know if we were correct or not in our guess of what our object was.

A solar panel heater?

A hair straightener?

These were 2 objects that we were not so sure of.... and we were amazed to find out that this object on the left was actually a gadget to put the seams back in your pants and the object on the right was a stick on de-mister for the back window of a car!!!





Our advertisements were fun to make - here are a couple:

We got to look all around the museum - go on things, touch, feel, ask questions, make connections and share our recent learning with our parent helpers... it was fantastic!!!  In our buzz groups, we had to find at least 3 other items that related to our original Retro Tech gadget from our beginning of term unveiling.  That was a lot of fun finding them and we learnt lots from our parent helps and Barry.  Some of the boys were totally intrigued by the old computers and computer games that were in working condition.... they decided that computers had DEFINITELY come along way!!!

We were all really interested in the HOME section - lots of irons, toasters, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, ovens etc . It was fascinating to imagine how people used to use these items.  The was much amazement too at the 'hair salon'... some of the gadgets looked really dangerous!

It was such a fun trip - we have learned lots this term and it was great to make connections to everything that we have seen from the past and to think about what it might evolve into, in the future.