Trip to science museum for Learning Outside the Classroom.

3. The Science museum is
situated in South Kensington
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London SW7
2DD.
Opening
hours:
Monday -
Sunday
10.00 - 18.00
(last entry
17.15)
Closed:
24 to 26
December.
The nearest
underground station:
South Kensington
You can travel on:
•District Line
•Circle Line
•Piccadilly Line
Bus routes 14, 49, 70, 74, 345,
360, 414, 430 and C1 stop outside
South Kensington Underground
Station, from where it is a five
minute walk north to the Museum's
Main Entrance.

6. Materials section
Clothes made from recyclable material. This
can be a starting point for children to create
their own recyclable products.
Exploring space
section
Museum of the history of medicine.
This exhibition showed various medical
settings in the past compared to two
modern day medical settings.

8. Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6
History for these weeks
-Civilisations
Looking at famous civilisations
and how people were treated
then and now – the
law/medicine/health. What
similarities have remained? What
differences are there? The future
– what do we expect to happen
10/100/1000 years from now?
Geography for these weeks
-Resources
Looking at how people dealt with
everyday life in the past – could
you always flush a toilet? When
things were invented? Would you
be able to survive without the
modern appliances we have
today? Wastefulness - in past
versus now.
Art and Design for these weeks
-Product design
Can you invent something use
inspiration from the past,
present or future that will help
future civilisations. This will
include group work planning and
designing 1 product, making the
product and then presenting it.
Theme of the Term: Past, Present
and Future

9.  LO: To be able to design a product using recyclable
material.
 Introduction: 5/10mins (carpet whole class)
 Recap over the science museum trip (inspiration) – do a
mind map of children’s ideas about inventions that they
saw. Then give children box of recycled materials that they
can use and tell them to make a brainstorm of their
inventions in relation to their materials.
 Main Activity: 30 minutes
 Get children to start designing their product on paper –
ensure that each child has a role in the group.
 Plenary:
 Get a child from each group to summarize their idea so far
and how they attempt to make it. Explain what they think
will be challenging about making their invention and how
they will deal with it.