
ShakerMod: Earthquake Encounters
ShakerMod – play an educational Minecraft mod which simulates earthquakes and creates an experiential and playful approach to understanding how to protect our homes against them – Fix. Fasten. Don’t Forget!
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Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand
Using the Stanford design process, teach students to create resilient communities that can deal with the effects of earthquakes when they happen – both social and structural.
Education resource
Ages 7–13 (Curriculum Levels 1–4)
Download the Building an earthquake ready future teaching resource (1.19 MB)
This resource gives your students tools to:
explore previous earthquakes around the world and the destruction they have caused both socially and structurally
empathise with survivors of these earthquakes, and try to understand what they might need to secure their future
ideate solutions to some of these problems
create, prototype, and test these solutions
present their solutions to the group and talk about the process they went through.
ShakerMod – play an educational Minecraft mod which simulates earthquakes and creates an experiential and playful approach to understanding how to protect our homes against them – Fix. Fasten. Don’t Forget!
You’re the explorer in our Te Taiao | Nature exhibition zone. Celebrate Aotearoa New Zealand’s unique natural environment – and get ready for our future as kaitiaki.
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Permanent exhibition
Exhibition Ngā whakaaturanga
Explore resources for earthquake preparedness, what to do during and after an earthquake, and how and why earthquakes and other disasters happen in Aotearoa New Zealand.