Who? What? Where? When? How? Use your research skills to identify these objects which have found a home in our Museum. Alternatively, use your creative imagination to come up with new uses for old objects. Use your findings to create your own museum display. For use as a cross-curricular resource. Suitable for all Key Stages.
Developed for the Early Years Foundation Stage and Key Stage One, these are two boxes of household objects, one old and one new. The boxes will provide the opportunity for children to explore and handle objects from the past and present, comparing similarities and differences to promote and consolidate a range of historical and cross curricular skills.
Developed for the Early Years Foundation Stage and Key Stage One, these two boxes contain old objects and their new comparisons from the household. The boxes will provide the opportunity for children to explore and handle objects from the past and present, comparing similarities and differences to promote and consolidate a range of historical and cross curricular skills.
Use these activities to explore the themes and motifs in artworks by Northumbrian artist John Martin and find the ways in which his work has influenced contemporary art and culture.
Bring the history of medicine to life with this exciting box full of real and replica artefacts.
This collection of replica artefacts represents life for a slave during the height of the transatlantic slave trade. The box will help pupils to empathise with the victims and their day to day work.
This collection of replica artefacts represents life on board a slave ship and will help pupils to empathise with the victims of the transatlantic slave trade. The box also includes the newly published 'Hidden Chains' book which looks at the North East's connections with the slave trade and its abolition.
What were seaside holidays like in the past? Find out with this collection of delightful original artefacts that complement the QCA scheme of work.
What were seaside holidays like in the past? Find out with this collection of delightful original artefacts.
Identify different sewing and knitting styles and learn how to knit from the helpful books. Use the knitting examples to test your knitting skills.
Learn about and experience the toys that children have been playing with long ago in the past and in more recent times with this brilliant selection of past toys and games.
Learn about different forms of transport and the ways these have developed over time with this collection of handling objects and books.
Identify the similarities and differences between different kinds of transport using children's toys from the past and present. Please note box contents may vary.
Find out about how the Vikings lived in Britain with this fascinating collection of replica artefacts based on archaeological finds. Please note we have 2 Viking boxes and the contents may vary.
Discover what it would have been like to live during World War One by exploring original objects, photographs and newspaper articles from the time.
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