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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Establish need for activities.
   • Identify need for interpretive activities, based on customer, organisation and community needs.
   • Establish educational, interpretive and commercial objectives in consultation with appropriate colleagues.
2. Create activities.
   • Identify and evaluate a range of potential information and resources, including other specialists as required.
   • Develop interpretive framework for activities.
   • Generate and select ideas for potential messages, themes and storylines.
   • Identify relationships between themes, storylines and the site.
   • Incorporate interpretive media that matches the site.
   • Conduct a risk assessment and incorporate controls into activity development.
   • Evaluate and integrate legal, ethical and sustainability considerations.
   • Develop resources to support activities.
   • Develop activity within budget to meet agreed objectives.
3. Evaluate activities.
   • Obtain formal and informal feedback from customers and colleagues during piloting or conduct of activities.
   • Modify activities according to feedback received.
   • Establish and implement ongoing review mechanisms to ensure continuous improvement of activities in line with its objectives.

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit in the context of the job role, and:

plan and develop one single interpretive activity and one series comprising at least three interpretive activities combined into an overall program, for at least two of the following:

attractions

guided activities or walks

sporting activities

theme parks

virtual activities

plan and develop the above interpretive activities using at least two of the following themes:

cultural

heritage

historical

nature

ensure above interpretive activities include key messages that reflect subject matter knowledge and meet the needs of different customer groups and commercial and operational constraints

identify review mechanisms for above interpretive activities.

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Knowledge Evidence

Demonstrated knowledge required to complete the tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit:

subject matter around which activities are developed

influential principles and theories of interpretation

physical and digital interpretive media

resource considerations for the development of interpretive activities:

apps and other digital content

costumes

guest speakers

handouts

information and communications technology

natural resources

props

professional organisations

special interest organisations

specialists:

actors and performers

creative designers

cultural advisers

designers

environmental educators

heritage specialists

historians

interpretation consultants

marketers

subject matter experts

technical experts

practical processes that support activity development:

budgeting

evaluation

needs analysis

resource development

scheduling

creative communication techniques for interpretive activities:

games

illustrated talks

role-playing

sensory awareness exercises

storytelling

use of apps, podcasts, near response codes, quick response codes

safety requirements specific to activities

risk assessment processes:

determining overall risk level

determining exposure to the risk

estimating probability of negative impacts

identifying consequences that could result from the identified risk

legal, ethical and sustainability considerations for activity development:

cultural appropriateness

duty of care

minimal impact

minimising waste and conserving resources.

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