Location – DERBY MUSEUM & ART GALLERY

Duration: 120 minutes

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

Key Stage: Key Stage 2

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

Session Description: Did you know Charles Darwin’s Grandad came from Derby? This session is ideal to support year 4 and year 6 science learning with pupils studying the Museum’s taxidermy and insect collections as well as handling real life skulls and fossils!

Pupil’s will explore the grouping of organisms and learn about evolution and how adaptations help species survive in their natural environments; comparing this to human activity and how it shapes evolution. The children will then apply their knowledge to create a piece of invertebrate art and name their species in Latin. 

This session’s Make and Take Activity: Invertebrate Art!

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National Curriculum Links Include:

• Science – Living things and their habitats, and Evolution and inheritance. “Pupils should be taught to describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based upon similarities and differences (and) give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics”. “Pupils might work scientifically by using classification systems and keys…to research unfamiliar animals and plants from a broad range of…habitats and decide where they belong in the classification system.”