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Interpretation Workshop

Interpretation Workshop. Winter Blahs Activity 2006. Education Mission. We will connect people to nature through our plants and animals and create changes in audience behaviour, knowledge and attitudes that help ensure a positive future for people, wildlife and wild places.

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Interpretation Workshop

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  1. Interpretation Workshop Winter Blahs Activity 2006

  2. Education Mission We will connect people to nature through our plants and animals and create changes in audience behaviour, knowledge and attitudes that help ensure a positive future for people, wildlife and wild places.

  3. What are we trying to do?

  4. Interpretation is the way to go! • Interpretation is a process that creates emotional and intellectual connections between the audience and the meanings inherent in the resource • Interpretation makes information come alive, rather than simply communicating factual information.

  5. Principles of Interpretation • Connect • Provide more than information • It’s an art • Provocation • Present the whole • Don’t dilute

  6. Know your Audience • Sensory involvement • Humour (where it is appropriate and makes a relevant point) • New information made understandable • An enthusiastic interpreter

  7. Stages of Child Development • Ages 2-7: • magic and fantasy • self-oriented • the world seems to be alive! Ages 12-15 Child thinks like an adult includes conceptual reasoning Peer acceptance very Important Can be noisy and awkward • Ages 7-11: • simple relationships • reasoning dominated by personal experience • ability to classify develops • time relationships more understandable

  8. Informing = Giving Facts • A Century Plant spends most of its life as a rosette. Characteristic of other Agaves, its flowering is delayed. When it does flower it grows very quickly until it reaches 5 to 15 feet in height. The plant blooms for several weeks and then dies.

  9. Storytelling = Interpretation

  10. Informing = Giving Facts • The Siberian tiger like other cats have large eyes on the front of their faces. The incisors are small and unspecialized, the canines are elongate, sharp and slightly recurved. • Siberian tigers weigh up to 272 Kg.

  11. Using Biofacts = Interpretation

  12. Informing = Giving Facts • The Animal Nutrition Centre is where all of the diets are prepared for the Zoo’s animals. • Diets are formulated by an animal nutritionist to ensure the collection stays healthy • Food includes fruits, vegetables, carnivore/feline diets, mealworms, crickets, and commercially prepared Zoo diets

  13. Interpretation

  14. Delivering Conservation Education Bridge Body Conclusion • POW!

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