Key Stage 2 Galleries

Information for Teachers

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Teacher

On this page we offer a table of links between the exhibits in the museum galleries and the National Curriculum.

Of course there may be many other ways in which the resources of the museum can be used to support learning.

Gallery Resource

Location

Links to the Nat Curriculum

Coronis interior and cabin

Ground Floor

KS1 History 2b, 4a, 6b

KS2 History 2b, 4a, 7, 11a

QCA History Unit 2 What were homes like a long time ago?

Demonstrating how people lived in the Victorian era and later.

Canal Costume

Mezzanine Floor

The costumes worn by men and women working on the boats.

KS2 History 2b, 4a, 7, 11a

Canal Life panels

Mezzanine Floor

KS2 History 2b, 4a, 7, 11a

Battlebridge Basin

Mezzanine Floor

KS2 History 7, 11a

KS2 Geography 3, 4, 7

Bantam Tug

Mezzanine Floor

KS2 Science Sc4 2b,c,d,e

Lifting and handling & weighing

Ground Floor

KS2 Maths Ma3, 4

Measham Pottery

Ground Floor

KS 2 Art & Design 4,5

Lace plates

Ground Floor

KS 2 Art & Design 4,5

Roses and Castles canal art

Ground Floor

KS 2 Art & Design 4,5

Ice wells

Ground Floor

Ice well and ice trade exhibition illustrates Victorian ingenuity and industry

KS 2 History 4, 7,11a

KS2 Science Sc3 2

Ice trade exhibition

Ground Floor

KS2 History 4,7,11a

Flip-book, Carlo Gatti

Ground Floor

KS2 History 4,7,11a

Ice boxes

Ground Floor

KS2 History 4,7,11a

Horse and ice-cart model

Ground Floor

>KS2 History 4,7,11a

Ice cream tricycle

Ground Floor

KS2 History 4.7,11a

Building entrance, weighbridge

Ground Floor

KS2 Maths Ma3, 4

Panels, rise and fall of canals

Mezzanine Floor

KS2 History 11a

KS3 History 10

Horse ramp

Ground and First floors

KS2 Science Sc4 2b,c, d, & e

Bridge building interactive

Ground Floor

>KS2 Maths Ma3 1c

KS2 Design & Technology 1, 5b

London map and intro panel

First Floor

KS2 History 7

Archive film of 1924 "Barging Through London"

First Floor

Film from 1924 illustrates how the canal has changed and London with it.

KS2 History 4,6,11b

Exhibition on Regent’s Canal

First Floor

KS2 History 4,6

Exhibition on canal craft

First Floor

Transport history

Horse stable stall

First Floor

KS2 History 4, 11a

Horse Power Exhibition

First Floor

Horse power, the importance of the working horse in 19th century transport. Includes stable, and medical instruments (more detail below). KS2 History - Transport.

Horse power exhib panels

First Floor

KS2 Science Sc4 2b,c,d,e

Forge and tools etc

First Floor

KS2 Science Sc3, 2

Hayracks

First Floor

KS2 History 4, 11a

Horse shoe display

First Floor

KS2 History 4, 11a

Horse harness display

First Floor

KS2 History 4, 11a

Flip-book, Horse exhibition

First Floor

KS2 History 4, 11a

Water and locks, panel/model

First Floor

KS2 Science Sc4 2b,c,d,e

Water & locks, wooden paddles

First Floor

KS2 Science Sc4 2b,c,d,e

Water/locks, windlass handles

First Floor

KS2 Science Sc4 2b,c,d,e

Water/locks, boundary markets

First Floor

KS2 Science Sc4 2b,c,d,e

Muscles and steam panel

First Floor

KS2 Science Sc4 2b,c,d,e

Macclesfield bridge explosion panel

First Floor

KS2 History 4,6,11b

Heritage Lottery Fund Logo

Canal scene illustration