Location – DERBY MUSEUM & ART GALLERY

Duration: 2 hours

Key Stage: Key Stage 2

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

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Session Description: A session 200 million years in the making! In this hands-on session, students will become palaeontologists and explore our unique fossil collection. We use enquiry-based learning techniques to handle a range of fossils as well as learn about the three types of rock and the rock cycle. Children will hear about Mary Anning, a pioneer of palaeontology, and create their own impression ‘fossil’ to take away to excavate at home or school. (Also suitable to Key Stage 1 )

Curricula:

• Science (compare and contrast rocks; explore soils and how they are made, learn how fossils are formed; fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago)
• History (Chronological understanding of British and world history)
• Geography (location of physical features such as geology in the East Midlands and the UK)
• Art and Design (develop techniques and use of materials with creativity, experimentation and an increasing awareness of art and design)
• STEAM Learning

Skills and Knowledge: Collaborative working, communicating ideas, craft and making, creativity, critical thinking, curiosity, culture, Derby/Derbyshire heritage, discussion, evaluating, exploring ideas, experimenting, fine motor skills, industry, key vocabulary, museum learning, observing museum collections, questioning, risk taking, speaking and listening, tracing aspects of national history in the locality

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