Enhancing pupil-learning on museum visits

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About. Museums give children experiences above and beyond the everyday – experiences that enrich and build upon classroom teaching and learning. Taking pupils to a museum, or bringing museum artefacts into school, instantly changes the dynamics of the usual learning environment. It gives you as a teacher the opportunity to start afresh with each child, to reach and engage with pupils in new and different ways. This unit explores practical ways in which you can make the most of the UK's extraordinarily dynamic and diverse museums and galleries; it gives you pathways into museum resources, and shares examples of teachers and museum educators making the most of museum artefacts.



* Object-based learning
* What's out there for our school?
* Learning styles and museums
Next Steps. References and acknowledgements

Pedagogical content. This unit explores practical ways in which you can make the most of UK's extraordinarily dynamic and diverse museums(tool) and galleries. It gives you pathways into museum resources and shares examples of teachers and museum educators making the most of museum artefacts. (edit)

Resource details
Title Enhancing pupil-learning on museum visits
Topic [[Topics/Museums|Museums]]
Teaching approach

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Learning Objectives
  • To understand how the use of objects and museum activities can enhance pupil learning
  • To have explored the museum resources and support available to teachers, and how to access those services
Format / structure

Web tutorial unit with seven PDF documents

Subject

[[Resources/Science|Science]]

Age of students / grade

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Useful information

Part of the Open University's Breakthrough to Mathematics, Science and Technology Series

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