Ongoing Workshops
The Faraday Centre maintains several ongoing Workshops which are available by arrangement for school classes or other groups.
These workshops can be tailored to the age range of your class and your teaching focus.
Hands On
These workshops can be tailored to the age range of your class and your teaching focus.
Hands On
The workshops are very much hands on and involve students in physical and mental challenges which give them a better understanding of the physical world around them.
Ongoing Workshops:
MACHINES and INVENTIONS
For School Years 1 - 13
MACHINES and INVENTIONS
For School Years 1 -
This guided tour of the Faraday Centre highlights human ingenuity and how it can impact on societies. The tour is
followed by students’ hands-on exploration of some of the historical technologies on display.
followed by students’ hands-
The Faraday Centre, Napier’s former Power House, is now an Aladdin’s cave of technological treasures from days gone by. Come for a guided tour, or choose a theme (e.g. electricity, communication, electromagnetic technologies, engines, entertainment technology, home appliances through the ages) and develop your own hands-on inquiry-based programme in consultation with the Faraday Centre educator.
What would life be like without refrigerators, television, computers and mobile phones? Come and do things the old-fashioned way, including hand-cranked and dial telephones, manual typewriters, adding machines, shopping at the General Store, and performing a radio play.