Victorian Loans Box
Using the Science CD Rom
The National Coal Mining Museum has a number of resources to support your visit or to consolidate learning back in the classroom.
Why not:
• Download a gallery trail to guide your pupils around the Museum on their visit. (See below)
• Try some of our e-learning resources. (See below)
• Use one of the resource packs to follow up a living history workshop. (See below)
• Use the Museum research library for more in-depth enquires.
Gallery Trails
Please download a gallery trail to use with your class on your visit to the Museum
Loans Boxes
The Museum’s loan boxes are available free of charge and contain objects, information and activities that stimulate curiosity and provide a hands-on approach to learning.
Loans boxes may be borrowed for up to a month at a time. To book a box, please contact the Assistant Education Officer on 01924 848806.
Quote
'Learning from "real" things - not reading, re-enactment, from TV. Something that's a true part of history - it was there. A true, real and tangible link with the past.'
Loans Unlocked: 2000 - 2002 DfES Project Research, Reading Museum Service
www.readingmuseum.org.uk/handson/learningandloans.htm
E-Learning Resources
CD ROM – The Science of Mining
An interactive whiteboard resource, which brings primary science alive through coal mining. Includes worksheets, resources, video clips and interactive games.
Available to purchase from the Museum shop at £9.99
My Learning
Visit www.mylearning.org and discover a new resource, Coal Mining and the Victorians, created by the Museum’s Education Team. This web resource provides images, information, primary evidence and activities relating to coal mining before and after the Coal Mines Act of 1842, which prevented women and children under 10 from working underground.
Resource Packs
These resource packs have been created to provide further information and ideas for classroom activities, following one of our living history workshops. Each are priced £2.50 and can be purchased from the Museum shop. Choose from:
• Victorian Child Workers
• Fred at the Pithead Baths