Enriched+Examples

Enriching the Learning



 * Revisit the activity and check
 * Do the students understand why we put down time capsules?
 * Have they seen examples of time capsules that have been found?

Do some research online
 * What is a time capsule?
 * What is its purpose?
 * What do people put in them and why?
 * Can you find examples top make a display? || Next steps learning
 * Re-evaluate whether the objects you have chosen meet our criteria for a time capsule.
 * Justify why you would include each item in a time capsule. What do they tell us about how people lived in that time and place?
 * Include photos and make it look like a time capsule for your display. || Check out [] and particularly note . ..

//"According to time capsule historian William Jarvis, most intentional time capsules usually do not provide much useful historical information: they are typically filled with "useless junk", new and pristine in condition, that tells little about the people of the time//."

and. ..

//If time capsules have a museum-like goal of preserving the culture of a particular time and place for study, they fulfill this goal very poorly in that they, by definition, are kept sealed for a particular length of time. Subsequent generations between the launch date and the target date will have no direct access to the artifacts and therefore these generations are prevented from learning from the contents directly. Therefore, time capsules can be seen, in respect to their usefulness to historians, as poorly implemented museums.//

Check out about the time capsule in the Palmerston North Police Station foundation stone //at// //[]// ||


 * Revisit the activity
 * What was the focus intent or purpose of the study?
 * Were questions developed to guide the information required?
 * What were the criteria? || What learning skills were developed during the activity?
 * Teacher input of skills? DATs?
 * How has this built from previous activities of this nature?
 * Student and peer reflection and goal setting? || Develop a rubric with students in line with the intended learning, that sets out the progression of skills and how these can be measured, increased and collated for assessment purposes.

What have the students learned about themselves as learners?

So what now? Where next? ||