Interpretation Workshop

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Interpretation Workshop

• Winter Blahs Activity 2006

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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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What are we trying to do?
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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.

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Principles of Interpretation

• Connect
• Provide more than information
• Its an art
• Provocation
• Present the whole
• Dont dilute

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Know your Audience

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

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Stages of Child Development
Ages 2-7 magic and fantasy self-oriented the
world seems to be alive!
Ages 7-11 simple relationships reasoning
dominated by personal experience ability to
classify develops time relationships more
understandable

• Ages 12-15
• Child thinks like an adult
• includes conceptual reasoning
• Peer acceptance very
• Important
• Can be noisy and awkward

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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.

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Storytelling Interpretation
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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.

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Using Biofacts Interpretation
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Informing Giving Facts

• The Animal Nutrition Centre is where all of the
  diets are prepared for the Zoos 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

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Interpretation
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Delivering Conservation Education
Bridge Body Conclusion

• POW!

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