“I believe that more you know about
the history, the better you are prepared for the future.”- Theodore Roosevelt
Field trips offer deep cognitive
learning beyond facts and concepts to include process skills and draw on other
places of learning such as museums. It has long been recognised that museums
are educational institutions. Learning on a field trip is a valuable supplement
and addition to classroom instruction and a way to prepare students for future
learning.
With a view to procure our Wittians with
the history of Indian currency, Witty International School, Pawan Baug
organised an educational field trip to “The Reserve Bank of India Museum”
located at Fort for the students of Grades IV on 11th November 2017.
This field trip brought light to the
history of Indian currency and unveiled coinage of India, paper currency, gold
bars as well as financial instruments and curiosities down the ages. Leaving
behind the clamour of the street behind, Wittians made way for a quiet space
where coins told the story of thousands of years of world economy.
The first section of the museum helped
our students to apprehend the concept of money and how it evolved from barter
to coins, and later to present day abstract money. Wittians were amazed to see various displays
in the museums like ‘Cowry shells and beads’, Neolithic axes’, ‘Bracelet money’
from West Africa and South East Asia and other interesting exhibits of the
smallest and biggest coins. The curator of the museum, proved to a wealth of
information on the exhibits and happily guided our students about the general
history of money in India.
The field trip was an overall success with the students’ enthusiastic response. It was an interesting, enriching and informative field trip. Witty International School thanked the management team and the staff of Reserve Bank of India Monetary Museum for providing their valuable time and for their assistance and co-operation rendered to us.
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