Location: MUSEUM OF MAKING 

Duration: Full Day 

Key Stage: Key Stage 3/4

Booking and Prices: £15.00 + VAT per pupil. This session allows 25 pupils (minimum) to 35 pupils (maximum). 

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Session Description: Enrich your GCSE Textiles provision by spending a day at the Museum of Making and exploring Rebecca Crompton’s story of innovation, experimentation and bravery. Through learning the skilful process of e-textiles, and applying their knowledge of series circuits, your students will be able to design and make a sampler with LED lights, conductive thread and a battery, that could influence their portfolio of work.

Curricula:

• Science (apply scientific knowledge to practical activities; construct a simple or series circuit; Follow recognised symbols when representing a circuit in a diagram)
• History (Chronologically explore the development of technology and industry over time in the galleries)
• Design and Technology (understand how key events and processes in design and technology have helped shape the world; gain knowledge, understanding and skill to engage in an iterative process of designing and making; understand and use electrical systems in their products)
• 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, 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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