Just how beastly are minibeasts? Using the Natural History Museum’s collection, students will investigate different types of arthropods (which make up over 80% of all known living animal species) and get some hands-on experience classifying minibeasts.
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National Curriculum links: identifying and classifying, identify and name a variety of common animals, describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals, recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways, explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment

What makes a dinosaur a dinosaur? How are fossils made? Go on a dinosaur hunt in the Natural History Museum and discover answers to these questions.
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National Curriculum links: describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock; recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago

Students will use the exhibitions in the Natural History Museum to explore one or more of the following topics: classification, adaptation and habitats, life cycles, food chains, and evolution.

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National Curriculum links: identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals; identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other; describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals; recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways, explore and use classification keys; construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey; describe the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird; identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution

What jobs does a skeleton do? What different types of skeletons are there? What can you learn about an animal from its skeleton? Use the Natural History Museum’s extensive collection to answer these questions.
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National Curriculum link: identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement.

How does the greenhouse effect work and what happens when the balance is upset? What causes climate change, what effects does it have, and what can we do about it?
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National Curriculum links: recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things

Using images and replica objects students investigate to discover how toys in the past were similar and different to the toys we have today.

National Curriculum links: identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods.

How long did the Stone Age last? Practise your deductive skills like an archaeologist and get hands on with some real Stone Age hand axes.
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National Curriculum links: changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age

Why mummify? What might you need in the afterlife? What gods were important to the Ancient Egyptians? Students will investigate these questions and more through activities and objects at the Museum of Antiquities.
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National Curriculum links: the achievements of the earliest civilizations – an overview of where and when the first civilizations appeared and a depth study of one of the following: . . . Ancient Egypt.

Learn about the importance of spoken and written language to the Ancient Greeks, the idea of form following function in pottery and the role of mythology and the gods in their everyday life, all using the exhibits in the Museum of Antiquities.
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National Curriculum link: Ancient Greece – a study of Greek life and achievements and their influence on the western world

Discover the connection between Eton and Henry VII. Investigate Tudor portraits and illustrations and learn about the daily life of a boy at Eton during the Tudor period.

National Curriculum Links: significant historical events, people and places in their own locality, a local history study, a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066

Many Eton boys in the second half of the 19th century may have been the sons of the nobility and the gentry, but they were still just boys. Students will investigate the lives of more privileged Victorian children through documents, images and objects. Discover what it was like to sleep, eat and learn at Eton during the reign of Queen Victoria.
Available as a video session

National Curriculum Links: significant historical events, people and places in their own locality, a local history study, a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066

Why do we commemorate Remembrance Day? This session investigates the story of an Old Etonian who fell on the Western Front through his childhood drawings, school records, letters and objects. Students will then have the chance to make their own poppy. The aim of the session is for students to understand that the soldiers who served and died are not abstract concepts, but real men, who were once students themselves.

National Curriculum Links: significant historical events, people and places in their own locality, a local history study, a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066

Although an Eton student may not fit the typical image of a child from the Second World War, the boys at the college battled through rationing, bombing and loss, just as other children did. In this session, learn how Eton boys dealt with the difficulties of life on the Home Front and discover, through discussion, images, artefacts and hands-on activities, how children supported the war effort.

National Curriculum Links: changes within living memory, significant historical events, people and places in their own locality, a local history study, a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066

Explore aspects of Shakespeare’s life and works through a variety of cross-curricular activities. Students will practise writing like Shakespeare, analyse a Tudor document from the Eton Archives and get dramatic with some theatrical exercises — choose to focus on The Tempest, Macbeth or A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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National Curriculum links: develop positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read by: listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays

Follow the path of Captain Cook and Joseph Banks as they travel across the ocean in the HMB Endeavour. Focus either on:
Creative writing – learn about life on board ship and use this to develop a character or
Navigation – learn about latitude and longitude and practice using coordinates

National Curriculum links: the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements; develop positive attitudes towards and stamina for writing by: writing narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real and fictional); draft and write by: in narratives, creating settings, characters and plot; identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere . . . Arctic and Antarctic Circle; use four and six-figure grid references