Gold 150 co-ordinator Julie Hughes said the Labour Weekend celebrations would be a region-wide collaboration - one the organisers wanted to share with the youngest residents.
"This is 150 years of gold - it's a significant [milestone].
"We're wanting to make sure the kids realise the importance of some of the historical sites and the importance of the history of the region.
"We have so many families that have arrived into our area that are from all over the world.
"If we can teach the kids, they can help [teach] their parents."
One of the education initiatives this year was to teach pupils at all 26 schools - from Roxburgh to Maniototo and Glenorchy - how to pan for gold ahead of the 2012 New Zealand Gold Panning Championships, being held in Arrowtown in October.
However, following on from a year of planning and work, schools would also receive their Gold 150 education packs early next week.
The Central Otago Goldfields Trust applied for funding to help with the celebrations and received a $430,000 grant, confirmed late last year.
Of that, $3500 had been put towards the education packs.
Gold 150 researcher Angela English, the former Lakes District Museum education officer, said the 28-page packs comprised primary information that also included suggested activities and covered a variety of topics.
These included traffic, transportation, what social life was like for early gold miners, what life was like for children and the Chinese settlers, as well as myths and legends, mine technology and the geology behind gold.
Additionally, 20 images would be delivered on a CD, allowing teachers to use them any way they saw fit - on interactive whiteboards, data programmes or in their own presentations for children.
Mrs Hughes said the importance of the images could not be underestimated, particularly as many children had "no idea" what life was like for early settlers.
"It's a really great way of being able to connect with them."
It would be the first time all schools in the district would have the same curriculum focus for the year. The education packs would be retained by the schools and would become "a community asset", Mrs Hughes said.
Mrs English was also working on a Gold 150 exhibition to open in October, which promised to deliver some unique pieces never displayed before at the museum, along with interpretation panels, artefacts and tableaus.
