Knowledge of visitor interpretation/Activities/Your Place

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Grafton Ghost Town, Utah, USA

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Contents 1 Objectives 2 Activity 3 Task 4 Supporting Materials

Objectives

Introduce the Principles of Interpretation

Activity

Turn personal facts/information into an interpretation

Task

(Part One) What town, city, country do you come from? List some information (facts) about the place eg. population, location, industry it is based on, anything factual you can find (10 minutes)

(Part Two)

• now see if you can weave these facts into a more interesting story

• incorporate Tilden's Principles of Interpretation eg. have you written something which either involves the audience or that they might have experience of, revealed the essence of the subject rather than just put together the facts, made a complete story rather than just parts put together, made your interpretation stimulating, inspiring and able to provoke thought, involved the participants emotions

Supporting Materials

• Tilden's Principles of Interpretation
• Good description of just what intepretation is
• Tourists in Bluff
• Bluff, lookout