Day 1 Of Camp

24/11/14

Te Papa? What is this place, where is it?

Well Te Papa is a place mounted on 55 cable st, Wellington 6011 and is actually a museum of New Zealand titled Te  Papa Tongarewa.

As a museum it puts on exhibitions. An exhibition is showing or presenting something to view. We went to see an exhibition on tyrannosauruses and the family around it. A lovely man started us off by giving us a bunch of cards but these weren't the ordinary cards you play last card or go fish, these had pictures of dinosaurs that had been laminated. With these cards we had to sort these into groups. This was hard for some people, you had to think more, talk more about it and discuss as a team to get them right.

The man took us up to level 4 and we got a clipboard, a pencil and a booklet with activities to do throughout the exhibition. Around corners and more corners a moving Trex took giant steps along the wall like a bull charging towards its prey. Corners and corners later…..  a screen showed a picture of us with a whole lot of dinosaurs wondering around sniffing at the ground trying to look for something to nibble. It came to the end of exhibition and we had learnt so much and seen and interacted with so many things that we all want to go back again.