Posted by: alexajeanes on: October 5, 2009
One of my first projects since starting my role as Lead Educator in Secondary and Post-16 Sciences here at the Manchester Museum is coordinating Darwin’s Legacy A-level Study Days to be held in October and November.
These study days take place as part of our Darwin Extravaganza and will allow A-Level students to explore Darwins theory [...]
Posted by: Louise on: May 18, 2009
This summer we have a great and unique opportunity for KS3 or KS4 students to come to The Manchester Museum to meet Andrew Gray, the Museum’s Curator of Herpetology (Reptiles and Amphibians). Andrew has a great blog you can visit here.
Students will have the opportunity to get close to some of the Museum’s live animals [...]
Posted by: Lauren on: February 20, 2009
This past weekend, Feb 14th, I had the pleasure of working at the Museum for our Darwin’s Birthday Bash- an EXTRA Big Saturday. It was brilliant- a lot of planning went into this day and a good time was had by all- especially the staff.
From live musical performances to kitchen science experiments there was [...]
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 [...]
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