Enrichment is a key element of our student learning experience at Uplands and it happens in a variety of ways. Many subjects offer trips and activities that stretch the curriculum to give our students the broadest possible experience. This year the History Department arranged an excursion for Year 7 students so that they could immerse themselves in the History of Penang Island!
The Year 7 History excursion was to the Penang State Museum in Georgetown on Thursday the 16th October.Â
The aims of this day-trip were as follows:
- To extend lessons beyond the classroom!
- To help students acquire knowledge, clarify thinking, synthesize information and enhance historical thinking.
- To give students the opportunity to use skills developed in their unit of work, ‘What is History?’ Students will be asked to utilise techniques of the investigator and historian in order to complete various tasks within the museum.
- To show students that the study of History can be fun and interactive!
Museum Competitions
Dear Year 7,
There are two museum related competitions you can enter!
- In the museum there are lots of displays that you can take your picture in front of. The best three ‘old-style’ pictures taken and e-mailed as attachments to me (Miss Mc Askie) emma.mcaskie@uplands.org will get a prize.
- The best three answers to the question ‘Why do we need museums?’ posted on this blog page will also get a valuable prize! So go ahead and post in the Comments section below!
Good Luck from the History Department!
Can I come on the trip too please? I love that museum…..and ice cream! 🙂
Miss Regan we’ll have to make sure you don’t miss out! We’re fully staffed right now for the October trip but I’ll be very happy to bring you another time!
I think we need a museum to let the other people know about the history in that country. For example, if you don’t teach the younger people/children what has been past in the society, it’ll just keep on repeating the same thing and never push ourselves forward. By displaying some collections of old tools, pictures, old style exhibitions and explanations(like what we saw in Penang State Museum) I can imagine how the world was like before I was born. It’s good to vist there with friends and family to inspire interest and discuss with them. I thought the worksheet was really detective and I think museums are important for us to educate about humanities/ history.
Thank you very much for taking us there
Thank-you Mai, I’m very glad you enjoyed your trip to the museum! You’ve made some interesting comments. We’ll announce winners to the comment competition at the end of our first week back. Enjoy half-term!
Why do we need museums?
I think we need museums so you can learn about the past and get lots more information then in class, the tourists can understand about the country before they go around that country and the other reason I think is that there are all different museums all around the world. Also I think museums are really important because the historians from all around the world studies really hard to make a museum on their country so we need to show respects and thankfulness to the historians who researched a lot and even though they want to show others about their country but I want to thank the historians for making the museum and help us with our studies.
Thanks Sakura! You’ve shown interesting insight there and an awareness of the work historians do! We’ll announce winners for the comment competition at the end of the first week back. Have a great half-term!
We need a museum..
– to learn about the past and history
– to learn about different cultures
– to investigate what happened in the past
Thanks Kim! Well done for finding the Trip page and leaving a comment. I’ll wait until the first week back after half-term then announce a winner for our comment competition after the History teachers in school have discussed:)
i think that we need museums so that we can appreciate the past. We also need museums to acknowledge certain heroic acts. Museums are also useful because if you are studying a specific history topic, you can go to a museum to learn more information on that topic. It is important to have museums because, if tourists come and wish to find out more information about the country they are touring, they can go to the museum to find out more about the country. This makes them appreciate the country (and landmarks) that they visit more because they know the history of the place.
Thanks Lauren, you’ve given some interesting comments on the importance of museums. We’ll close the competition at the end of the week and announce winners after:)
WHY DO WE NEED MUSEUMS?
We need museums because we often want to find out about our country’s history or other countries history. Also we need museums because Historians find very interesting artifacts and objects from the past.
Thanks Carson!
Why do we need museums?
I think we need museums so that we can know what happened in the past. If mistakes were made, for example: wars, we can learn from it and don’t do the same thing again.
Why do we need museums?
We need museums because we need to know about the past of the country, keep the culture things, traditional games, learn new items and know about the other region’s culture
Thanks Greg!
Why do we need museums?
I think we need museums because we need to learn about HISTORY and what other people’s work is…. And because we can learn many thing about bicycle in 1980~2014 So I Think museum should exist…….
Thanks Bryan!
Why do we need museums?
I think we need museums because they recorded proof of very important people that made things for the better like the malaysian government in 1951.
The other reason I think we need museums is that we can have proof of how our ancestors lived long ago.
Thanks Jason!
WHY DO WE NEED MUSEUMS
The finding and hunting down of collectables can become a physical addiction, its interesting because curiosity and anticipation release dopamine, a neurotransmitter that works as a stimulant and gives us a natural high. It’s a high that we want to keep experiencing, the thrill of the chase, and so we keep on hunting. But it’s not just collecting these objects that makes us happy; it’s having them, holding them, owning them, and exploring their mysteries. To do that, we need a place to keep them. Good thing we invented museums.
Thanks Guychee!
I do think I’ve read this somewhere before though Guychee -http://news.bbc.co.uk/dna/ptop/plain/A79633164
There are many things out there from the past that we have discovered. People want to keep them so that something valuable cannot be lost. They have created museums to keep those things there safely. Museums are also very helpful if you want to learn something about the past. It is important to have some knowledge about the past because it helps us understand about how people used to live and what happened before we were born. There are different museums all around the world showing you how many different things from the past. This is why we need museums.
Why do we need musems???
I think we need a museum to learn about past and learn whats the difference from our live and their live in museum we could learn the difference from now and that time and also we need a museum to show interest to the other tourists.And also to investigate and learn in class so we get more interests about history and get more knowlege from it. (*-*)
Thanks Peter I totally understand what you mean:)
Why Do We Need Museums?
I think we need museums to help us think in ways outside of the class. We also need museums so we are less ignorant about history and what happened over the course of time. Museums also make history come to life thus making learning history more fun than in class. History museums also help us learn from mistakes in the past and help us evaluate how and why we are in the position we are in today. It’s also nice to see things in real life rather than a picture or writing.
Thanks Will, I’m glad you enjoyed seeing things in real life at Penang State Museum!
Why do we need museums?
Museums is a place with answers and valuables that have been in the past. It tells the traditional culture of a country. Also we learn from the information given by the museum making us known what was like long time ago.
Thanks Danny!
Why do we need museums?
We need museums to learn about the past so we can understand what was happening during that time. Museums are there for us to gain more knowledge of what they were doing,eating food, wearing different clothes and what type of religion they were following. I learnt so much I went to the museum,more than I knew before.
Thanks Sonia!
Why do we need Museums?
I think we need museums so that we can learn about the past.In the museum there were lots of pictures and tools.Its important to have museums so that tourists can know the country before they go around that country.I also think that museums are an excellent place to go because there are lots of information about how the people from the country lived a long time ago.We can also learn about the country’s culture.
Thanks Rian!
Why do we need museums?
We need museums so that we can enhance our knowledge about our country’s history that had happened in the past. Museums are also important as they help us learn and know more about the culture and traditions from the past. Also, we need museums so that we can see, and observe interesting artefacts from the past displayed in the museum. Museums are also a good way for tourists and visitors to learn more about the country they are visiting, such as the unique artefacts, and the interesting cultures and traditions. These are the reasons why I think we need museums. 🙂
Thanks Jessica, we definitely saw some unique artifacts in our local museum!
Why do we need museums?
I think we need museums to know things that happens in the past and try to know how we can effect the future and make life better. Museums can also be interesting for people and they can just go to one to find out information. We can also compare the things that happen on different dates and how it changes. Children can visit museums to help them with their studies and museums can also effect the child’s knowledge for the future. Without museums, I think that the education level should be lower, so museums are very important.
Thanks Ryo!
I think we need museums as it provides us with more and more knowledge of the past. I think that it also provides us with evidence of what has happened or what has been created by other’s which we may learn and understand what traditions have died out and which ones have created. It also tells us when or who founded this particular island, state, land or country. It also tells us anyone who was famous and if that did something heroic or special for the country. And this is why I think we need museums. Thanks.
Thanks Cieran. I’m glad you had fun learning about Captain Francis Light!
I think we need to learn about museums because we need to learn about the past of our own country, which in our case is Penang. Museums can be very helpful because it can help people learn about how their country had maybe gone through wars, battles, natural disasters etc. Museums help people feel like they are in that time zone and moment in life. You get to visualize what things were like in the olden days, for example technology might be different like now we use computers for writing things up, but in the olden days they used to use type writers.
I’m glad you were able to visualise the past when we were in the museum. Thanks Ella Rose!
Why do we need museums?
I think we need museums to learn about different cultures. Also I think we need museums to learn about the past and what happened.
We definitely learnt about the three main cultures of Penang at Penang State Museum! Thanks Ted:)
I think there should be museums because museums show the items in the past and also it has a lot of info about ancient things
Thanks Christen!
We need museum to see what happened in the past and to find the differences between now and past. We could also learn culture and beliefs from different places.
So I think we need to museums to gain knowledge and to start getting interested in to history
Thanks Justin!
Why do we need museums?
I think we need museum to learn more things about in the world. In museums you can learn what people did in the past. Not only the people which is from your country. An other one is that you can investigate the past more and other people from all around the world. We can get knowlege feom other museums, and we can learn more at the museum than in class. in museums you can also keep valuable stuffs safty, and let the people from all around the world see it.
Thats why we need museums.
Thanks Lara!
We need museums to reflect on the past and the changes we have made from then to now. The technology and the living standards are very high now compared to then, and I think that this means in future, the standards can go higher, too, drastically.
We also need museums because we need proof that artefacts/objects really existed in order to know if the people during that period of time existed too.
We can learn about the past and see how people lived in those times. Maybe we live differently, but they had a better way of doing this or that. We can change the way we live and do it the way they did it. This makes life easier and more simple than it already is.
Museums are also very important when it comes to big events (e.g World War I) because historians found evidence to prove things during the war, and sometimes that evidence goes into museums. This proves that they existed during that period of time.
We need to know the different cultures of people in order to attract tourists! I’m pretty sure that tourists like looking at the different cultures we have.
I think that History is an exciting subject and I think that there are still many new things to learn, many things out there that we haven’t discovered, and we need to put them into those useful museums!!!
Wow! Some interesting comments there Julieanne and great enthusiasm for History!
Why Do We Need Museums?
We need museums to record what people did in the past and we need museums to let people know what event happened at a certain time
Thanks Hoong Lee!
We need museums where there are interesting artifact and real thing to help us understand more about the past. We need it to differentiate the time and museums help us understand how people used to live in the past.
Thanks Sanjana!