Location: MUSEUM OF MAKING 

Duration: 120 mins

Key Stage: Key Stage 1

Booking and Prices: £6.50 + VAT per pupil. This session allows 25 pupils (minimum) to 35 pupils (maximum). 

TO BOOK: Fill Out Our Booking Form or email us at learn@derbymuseums.org.

Contents: Look up at the huge Trent 1000 engine and discover Rolls Royce’s key role in the world’s development of flight, right here in Derby!

Perfect for Transport topics and learning about events beyond living memory (NC 2014), your learners will uncover the fascinating story of many flight pioneers, and role play Alcock & Brown’s momentous feat of successfully flying non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean in 1919 using The Roll’s Royce Eagle engine, now found on display in our gallery!

Learners will then take on their own trans-Atlantic mission completing a KS1 STEAM Paper Plane Challenge!  Evaluating existing toy plane products and understanding how to strengthen and stiffen paper, learners will perform simple tests to demonstrate how weight and shape all contribute to flight and make their very own paper plane to fly the furthest!

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Curricula: DT, History, Science, STEAM

Contexts: Collaborative working, communicating ideas, critical thinking, curiosity, culture, Derby/Derbyshire heritage, design, discussion, evaluating, experimenting, exploring ideas, industry, key vocabulary, local history depth study, making, museum learning, risk taking, significant events, individuals and places in the locality, , speaking and listening,