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Picturing design
Creative workshop to develop art skills and confident use of materials and ideas. Exploration of artworks in the gallery stimulates imagination and experimentation for creative work in small groups.
Tags: Craft and Design, KS1, KS2, Materials and Making, Portraits, Visual Literacy
11 February 2019
Theory of evolution: Using bone measurements
Provide your students with a measurable means of evaluating the theory of evolution by measuring skulls to illustrate man’s development and compare human development to that of our animal counterparts.
Light waves: The colour of nature
Explore some of the properties of light through experiments. Construct a spectroscope to examine white light.
Tags: Biology, KS3, KS4, KS5, Physics Machines & Energy
First World War: Beyond the trenches
Use objects, documentary evidence and discussion to find out the local experience of war, from the Leeds PALS and Rifles to the stories of the people they left behind.
Stone Age to Iron Age Britain
How did Britain change from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age and then to the Iron Age? How do we know when there were no written records?
Tags: KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5, Stone Iron and Bronze Age
Walk like an Egyptian
Forget Pharaohs and pyramids, see how the everyday citizens of ancient Egypt lived and worked.
Tags: Ancient Egyptians, KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5
What have the Romans ever done for us?
Pupils will explore how the Romans lived day to day in Britain by handling artefacts from Dalton Parlours, a Roman villa near Wetherby, and investigate the legacy they left behind.
Tags: KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5, Romans in Yorkshire
Rocks and Fossils
Where do rocks come from? How are rocks classified? What are fossils and where are they found?
Science in the workplace: Behind the scenes
Find out about real science in the workplace! See how science is integral to museums from storage to object preservation and cleaning.
Amazing Animals
Get up close to animals from around the world. In this workshop pupils will learn about adaptations, habitats and evolution by investigating a variety of birds, insects and exotic animal skeletons before visiting our store, where we keep over 800,000 natural science specimens.
Get inspired!
We have over one million inspirational objects covering dress and textiles, world cultures, archaeology, geology, social history and natural history.
Waterforce! A green energy source
Explore the mill to discover how water wheels work and discuss forces, then build working working model waterwheels, evaluate them on a test rig and explore the use of dynamos to generate electricity.
Tags: KS2, Physics Machines & Energy
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