The Otago Museum has an extensive range of teaching resources available to bring your classroom to life!
 
These include teaching kits (for hire), teaching units (for sale) and Museum display cases (for hire).
 
See the list below and contact our Education team on (03) 4747 470 or e-mail education@otagomuseum.govt.nz for more details. 

Kits and Units 
 
Earth Science

• Booklet 1 What's Inside? (Unit & Kit) Levels 3, 4 and 5
• Booklet 2 The Shaky Quaky Earth, The Fiery Earth (Unit & Kit) Levels 3, 4 and 5
• Booklet 3 Rocks, Rocks and More Rocks, Minerals (Unit & Kit) Levels 3, 4 and 5
• The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth (Unit & Kit) Levels 3, 4 and 5
• Earth Works Sand, Soil and Clay (Unit & Kit) Levels 1 and 2
• Pounamu /Greenstone (Unit & Kit) Levels 2, 3 and 4
• The Dunedin Volcano (Unit & Kit) Levels 1 to 5

The Science of Sound

• Sounds Great (Unit & Kit) Levels 1 to 4
• The Sounds of Music (Unit) Levels 1 through to 4 

Weather

• Keeping Weather Records (Unit & Kit) Levels 2 and 3
• What's Weather (Unit & Kit) Levels 3 and 4 

Water, Ships and the Sea

• Floating and Sinking (Unit) Levels 1 and 2
• Floating and Sinking (Unit) Levels 3 and 4
• Boats (Unit & Kit) Levels 1 and 2
• Boats Investigations into Streamlining and Stability (Unit & Kit) Levels 3 and 4
• The Mary Rose (Unit & Kit) Level 3 and 4
• Maths with Ships (Unit) Level 3
• Ships through Time (Unit) Level 4, 5 and 6
• Explorers of the Pacific (Unit) Levels 4, 5 and 6
• Waka (The Maori Canoe) (Unit) Levels 3 and 4
• The Sea (Unit) Level 4, 5 and 6 

Astronomy

• Day and Night (Unit) Level 1
• The Sun and Its Family (Unit) Level 2 and 3
• Watching the Night Sky- Star Gazing (Unit) Level 3 and 4
• Watching the Night Sky- Moon Struck (Unit) Level 4 and 5
• Space (Unit) Level 4,5 and 6 

The Science of Fibres and Fabrics

• Fibres and Fabrics (Unit & Kit) Level 1
• Fibres and Fabrics (Unit & Kit) Levels 2 and 3
• Absorbent or Not? (Unit) Levels 3 and 4
• Fantastic Plastics (Unit) Levels 3 and 4 

Creative Costume

• Creative Costume (Unit & Kit) Level 1 and 2
• Creative Costume (Unit & Kit) Level 3 and 4 

Southern Maori

• Maori Food Gathering in the South Island before 1840 (Unit) Levels 2 and 3 

Colonial Settlement of Otago

• Early Days in the Settlement of Otago (Unit) Levels 1, 2 and 3 

Extinction

• Ten Threatened Endangered Species in Otago (Unit) Levels 2 and 3

Technology Education

• Paper Technology - Technological areas: Materials Production and Processes (Unit & Kit) Levels 3 and 4, 4 and 5
• Paper Technology - Technological areas: Materials, Information and Communication (Unit & Kit) Levels 2 and 3, 3 to 5
• The Baker's Dozen - Technological areas: Food Technology (Unit) Levels 3 to 5
• Flashy Decorations - Technological areas: Electronics and Control (Unit) Levels 2 to 5
• On Your Bike - Technological Areas: Structures and Mechanisms, Production and Processes (Unit) Levels 3 to 5
• Print It! (Unit & Kit) Levels 3 to 5 

Museum Display Cases
 
A large number of cases suitable for use as starter material or extension materials for a range of topics are available on a two week loan basis to schools in Otago and Southland. Many utilise actual artefacts or their replicas from Otago Museum collections. Themes covered by these boxes include:

• Arms and Armour (including NZ and Japan) - display cases
• Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals (including pteranadon, brontosaurus, woolly mammoth) - posters and display cases
• Birds, native, (including tui, kingfisher, kiwi, kaka) introduced and endangered - posters and display cases of real birds
• Clyde power scheme - display cases
• Flight, planes, helicopters, aviators (including Richard Pearse, Jean Batten) and rockets - posters and display cases
• Geology, many rocks and minerals, and volcanoes - display cases and samples
• Insects (including slater, stick insect, carabid beetle) - models, display cases, giant posters and games
• Maori (including uses of bone, greenstone and moko) - display cases
• Reptiles (including cobra and crocodiles) - display cases
• Shells, Molluscs - uses of display cases and samples
• Ships, history through time (including The Monitor, Viking Longship) - display cases, panels, models and puzzles
• Spiders - models and display cases
• Transport - photo sets and display cases
• Volcanoes
• Writing (historical) - display cases