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Teacher Feedback; new Nature’s Palette Session
Posted by: Alexa on: July 14, 2010
Rebecca Jordan, a science teacher at Our Ladies Sports College brought some of her students to our very first trial session of ‘Nature’s Pallete: Pigments, Paradise and photosynthesis.’ Here’s what she thought of our the brand new addition to our secondary science programme: I brought a group of year 8 pupils to the new Natures [...]
Blog posts from visiting schools
Posted by: Louise on: June 16, 2010
Its always great when you get a good feedback form from a teacher, you know that the pupils enjoyed themselves and that you have in some way contributed towards their learning. Its even nicer when you come across websites or blogs where people write about their visits. Below are a few I’ve stumbled upon the [...]
Genes to Phenotype A-level Study Day
Posted by: Alexa on: March 12, 2010
Over the past two years, we have hosted an A-Level Study Day called Genes to Phenotypes which was developed with scientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Matrix Research in the Faculty of Life Sciences at The University of Manchester. On the 5th and 22nd February 2010, 60 A-Level students from The Manchester College, [...]
Teaching Controversial Issues Using Museums
Posted by: Cat on: February 3, 2009
We (Louise and I) recently submitted a workshop proposal for the 16th International Learning Conference in July on how to teach controversial issues using museum collections. This 60 minute session has now been accepted and will look at how the Learning Team at The Manchester Museum have explored multiple concepts within our programming and how [...]
Earth Sciences can be enjoyable!
Posted by: Susan on: December 24, 2008
This term come to The Manchester Museum and raise your classes’ enthusiasm for rocks. Our Rocks Revealed KS 2 session gets children moving through the rock cycle, playing games and investigating rock types. The 2 hour session will introduce them to the fantastic variety of rocks on earth and how each type is formed in [...]
Early Years project ‘Imagine Their Shadows’
Posted by: Elaine on: December 19, 2008
A new DVD is available free of charge from Places Matter! entitled ‘Places of Learning’. It features 5 films from creative projects with early years to KS3 groups including ‘Imagine Their Shadows’ a collaborative project between Manchester Museum, Places Matter, Horse and Bamboo theatre Co, MEP/ Surestart Creative Collaborators project and Rusholme Children’s Centre Contact: [...]
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