Maritime Museum excursion... (2 Viewers)

[Jezzabelle]

Hey friends,

my stupid chemistry **thing** (i could never define him as a teacher) is making our class train it to the city next thursday to spend 4 hrs at the maritime museum... supposed to cover a lot of the syllabus ( which he avoids to teach...)
just wondering if anyone else has been? or is going?
any comments?

 

[Skywalker]

You'll need the worksheets they give out to do one of the last dotpoints in the syllabus; it's the one about cleaning/restoring an Australian wreck.

Other than that, the excursion isn't informative. It won't cover anything from the syllabus in depth, if at all, and the only thing I remember getting out of my trip is to always calibrate an electronic pH meter before use.

 

[steph@nie]

I went a few weeks ago. It was pretty boring and basically all you need to know about is the anchor, cannon and the artefacts. Thats all I got out of it really... but its covered in my text book anyway!

 

[BlackJack]

Clearly all I got out of it was a greasy hamburger and some time off with friends. But you do need to fill out some key parts of the sheet, e.g. methods of preservation and desalination, i s'pose.

 

[rumour]

They have workshops,where you learn about corrosion of matels, etc.

But you get to go inside a submarine!!

 

[Ammzie]

We had to go to it to.... I went there with low expectations and it was alright, i hate chemistry and was reluctant to go on the excursion, but none the less it turned out to be ok.

 

[mushroom_head]

Yeah, we went as well and it turned out better than i expected. We went through a million dot points and the amazing thing is i understood! i think that was the most productive chemistry lesson i've had in 2 years

 

[charmed_cuties]

i went last thursday and my school was doing it with another skool, i think it was minnei or sumfing not quite sure