Educational Resources for Teachers
This section provide teachers with a list of visitor attractions that offer educational resources including workshops, resource packs and lectures. Relevant Key Stages are identified and links to the appropriate education websites, where further information is available, are included. You will also find suggested itineraries for schools and other educational establishments.
British Waterways
Britain's inland waterways are a unique educational resource and can stimulate enormous curiosity and interest. The British Waterways London education officer can also help you explore your local stretch of canal either on foot or by boat. The waterways will help you to bring local history to life, to look at practical science and to enjoy your local environment. All sessions include basic information about water safety. A more detailed water safety session is available on request.
Classroom workshops include:
History
The canal in Victorian times,
Victorian life on the canal and canal transport during the second world war.
Science
Canal cargo, moving boats, under and over, canal structures, birds on the water and water safety.
Book your FREE workshops, trips and order resource packs now!
Contact Elaine Stanley, BWL Education Officer
T: 020 7985 7218
M: 07733 124565
E: elaine.stanley@britishwaterways.co.uk
Along with The Waterways Trust and the Inland Waterways Association, British Waterways London has set up a partnership called WOW (Wild Over Waterways), as a great way for children to discover the waterways, their history, and the fun and fascination they offer today. By visiting the WOW website, children can, explore a wealth of wildlife, discover canal heritage: bridges, locks and buildings and find out about the waterways near them. There are lots of games to play, moderated message boards, information for school projects and waterway events.
For teachers and group leaders, the site contains numerous teaching resources, activity and information packs, and safety resources.
Museum in Docklands
The Museum in Docklands is a great place for a school visit, offering a range of sessions and resources in support of the national curriculum. The Museum tells the story of London’s port from the Roman period to the rise of Canary Wharf, through interactive displays, recreated scenes and Museum artefacts. A large gallery explores the impact of World War II on London’s docks and communities. Another gallery traces the decline of London’s docks and their regeneration in the late 20th century.
Educational opportunities are delivered through handling workshops, gallery performances, storytelling, debates, lectures and exploratory play sessions. Resources or practical gallery activities are available to accompany most sessions. The Museum’s programmes are for foundation stage through to key stage 4 and for special educational needs schools.
Foundation & Key Stages 1 & 2
Mudlarks Gallery
Sailortown
The Sampling Warehouse
The London Bridge Model
Key Stage 2
Thames Highway
Rhinebeck Panorama
First Port of Empire & Warehouse of the World
Key Stages 2 & 4
Docklands at War
Key Stage 3
The Sugar Trade
The 1889 Dock Strike
Key Stages 3 & 4
New Port, New City
For more information, please visit www.museumindocklands.org.uk/education.htm
National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum's formal learning service seeks to provide National curriculum-based activities and resources for school groups and teachers, together with a range of learning opportunities for formal education groups, including student and adult learners.
A range of free facilitated visit sessions, printed materials and web-based learning resources promote accessible, enjoyable, active engagement with the Museum's collections and historic buildings. Online resources include Tudor exploration, leisure, travel and tourism, stories of the skies, stellar evolution, vikings, GCSE astronomy, trade and empire and more. The above activities are aimed at Key Stages pre-school, 1, 2, 3, 4, and post-16.
For more information about the educational resources, please visit www.nmm.ac.uk/site/navId/005003.
Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge Exhibition offers a rare and stimulating learning opportunity for students of all ages. Special tour packs are available for school groups, linking Tower Bridge to different aspects of the National Curriculum. The packs have been prepared and written by teachers to enable groups to make the most of their visit. They include project work for students to do before and after they come, as well as providing a programme for the visit itself. The packs are aimed at Key Stage 2 & 3, or students aged 7 - 11 years old.
Subjects include:
History - The Victorians
Science - Materials, forces and motion
Geography - London and City planning
For more information about the educational resources at Tower Bridge Exhibition and to book, please visit www.towerbridge.org.uk
