The Education Section at Amathole Museum is led by trained teachers with years of teaching and educational outreach experience. We create engaging learning experiences that connect learners with the museum’s collections, exhibitions and the rich heritage of the Eastern Cape.
Have a look at the lessons offered for the Foundation Phase and Intermediate Phase. Choose a lesson that suits your learners and bring the classroom to life through an engaging museum experience.
The lessons offered are aligned with the Department of Education National Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statements (CAPS) to complement the curriculum. Visiting learners will gain knowledge and understanding of the natural world through engaging with authentic artefacts, specimens, (scientists) and specialists.
Outreach programmes are available for schools that find it eeconomically challenging to visit the museum.
Topic: Wild animals
o Types
o Camouflage
Topic: Animals & Creatures That Live In Water
Fresh water
o Ponds
o Rivers
Salt water
o Sea
o Rock pools
Topic: Animal Homes
o Animals and creatures that make their homes
o Animals and creatures that find a home
o Animals and creatures that carry their own homes
Topic: Transport
o What it is
o Road transport
Topic: Insects
o Characteristics of an insect
o Different insects
o Observing and drawing an insect
o How insects help us
o How some insects harm us
Topic: My Community
o Places in my community – Amathole Museum
Topic: Birds
o Different types of birds
o General characteristics
Birds that cannot fly
Topic: Wild Animals
o Types of wild animals
o Where are wild animals found
o How wild animals live
o What wild animals eat
o Babies & where they are born
Topic: Homes
o Different types of homes
o What different homes are made of
Topic: Habitats of animals
Topic: Local history
Topic: Plants and animals on earth
Topic: Animal Skeletons
Topic: Skeletons as structures
Topic: Hunter gathers and herders in South Africa
Topic: Democracy and citizenship
Topic: Transport through time
Topic: Fossils
08:00 - 16:30
08:00 - 16:00
09:00 - 14:00
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