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- The exhibition
- Subject links
- Level of activities
- Finding an activity
- Structure of activities
- Combining activities into units
- Exhibition links
- Printing activities
- Classroom management
- Presenting and assessing work
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This teachers’ guide is designed to complement your
class visit to The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy – The
Exhibition.
- How do you make chain mail that looks like the real
thing but doesn’t weigh a ton?
- How do you make big look small and small look big?
- How do you make new stuff look worn and torn?
The exhibition will reveal some of the film-makers’ secrets
in achieving these and other feats – and the activities
in this guide will allow your students to come up with their
own solutions.
For more information about the exhibition itself (including
exhibition dates, opening hours, admission charges, and venues),
please visit the exhibition
website (www.tepapa.govt.nz/rings). |
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The activities in this guide link mainly to the following
subject areas (otherwise called learning areas or content
areas):
- The Arts (art and design, visual arts, theatre arts, film,
music)
- Technology (design and technology, science and technology,
information and communications technology)
- English (literature, drama)
- Social Studies.
Some activities also link to Science and Mathematics. |
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In general, the activities are aimed at students aged between
11 and 15.
- NZ and UK: years 7–11
- USA: grades 6–10
- Australia: years 6–10
- Singapore: primary 5 and 6, secondary 1, 2, and 3.
The activities can be adapted for students working at other
levels too. |
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The Activities List presents
the activities in alphabetical order and shows their subject
area links:
When you click on an activity title, you’ll be taken to it. |
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The activities are structured around the design process, which
is based on problem solving. They are essentially design briefs.
Each activity has components for:
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- before the exhibition (brainstorming, researching,
and identifying needs, problems, and opportunities)
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- during the exhibition (interacting with exhibits,
observing, and discovering)
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- after the exhibition (planning, testing, refining,
and presenting solutions).
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The During section also provides focus questions for your
exhibition visit. (Ideally, your class will have seen at least
one movie in the trilogy before going to the exhibition, but
this isn’t always necessary.)
The Teaching Points (on the right side of each activity screen)
provide extra ideas or information for you, the teacher. |
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At the bottom of each activity,
there are links to activities on related topics. These activities
could be combined into a unit plan. If you click on one
of
the activities, you’ll be taken to it.
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The Exhibition Map icon (right) links to a map that identifies
the zones of the exhibition relevant to an activity. The number
coding on the map will not appear in the exhibition itself,
so it’s a good idea to print the map and take it with
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To print the whole teachers’ guide, go to the home
page. To print an individual activity, click on the Print
icon when you’re in that activity. All files for printing
are in PDF format. You may need to download the free Adobe
Acrobat PDF viewer to view the PDF documents. |
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Most of the activities can be undertaken by students
as a class, in groups (large or small), or individually.
Some activities allow for a mixture of these arrangements. |
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When your students complete an activity, encourage them to
present their work to the class. Get them to explain:
- their objectives
- the decisions they made (e.g. the materials and/or processes
they chose) and why
- any problems they had and how they resolved them
- what they think worked or didn’t work and why
- what they learned and/or might try next time.
These steps are an important way for students to reflect on
and assess their own work – all part of the learning
process. In the activities, the steps are summarised as “Present
and assess your work.” Presentations also provide opportunities
for peer assessment (when students assess each other’s
work) and teacher assessment. If presentations aren’t
possible or appropriate, your students could write reports
that follow the same process of reflection. |
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© 2006 New Line
Productions, Inc. The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship
of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of
the King and the characters, events, items, and places
therein are trademarks of The Saul Zaentz Company, d/b/a Tolkien
Enterprises, under license to New Line Productions, Inc. All
rights reserved.
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