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Time Portals - an online history resource
Time Portals is a new and exciting online history resource for KS2 students. It is designed to promote access to the collections of ten local museums, including ours, in a fun and accessible way. All activities are in line with the National Curriculum and are designed to support historical investigation both in school and at home.
There are all kinds of fascinating online activities: Museum Mysteries, Talking Pictures and Amazing Artefacts!
Thornbury & District Museum online learning resources
Museum Mysteries
Thornbury & District Museum presents five Museum Mysteries on the Timeportals website, from which a whole lesson plan can be delivered (with or without our help). The five mystery objects are:
Pupils can investigate the objects online in the classroom, using a computer or an interactive whiteboard. They can watch and listen to the Curator talking about one of the objects. And they can create their own stories about a museum mystery, using a story frame.
Talking Picture
This learning resource also offers a Talking Picture - a photograph of Thornbury High Street and The Plain taken in 1911, showing the cattle market just before it moved to the Rock Street area. Cattle and crowds of people fill the street. This activity offers pupils the chance to guess the subject of the photograph from just one corner of it, before viewing the whole picture. They will discover Thornbury as it was in the late Victorian and Edwardian period. Pupils can use the photo as a prompt for a drawing activity.
Who are these for?
These interactive resources have been created for Key Stage 2 (children between the ages of 7 and 11) and have been designed to be used by a whole class on the interactive whiteboard. But they can also be used with support by pairs of children working on a PC. All the activities are in line with the National Curriculum and linked to generic learning outcomes. Contact the museum for more ideas about mystery objects or talking pictures which can enhance national curriculum topics.
Further information
In addition to our own fun and interactive learning resources, Timeportals also includes objects from nine Gloucestershire museums.
Timeportals - main site: Online learning resources from all ten museums.
"I was impressed by the children's enthusiasm and input into the lesson" - a Gloucestershire primary school teacher's response to the resource.
The museums you will find on the Timeportals resource are:
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Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum
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Corinium Museum
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Dean Forest Railway Museum
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Dean Heritage Centre
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Edward Jenner Museum
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Holst Birthplace Museum
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John Moore Countryside Museum
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Museum in the Park, Stroud
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Nature in Art Museum
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Thornbury & District Museum
All the museum contact details are available on the Timeportals site.
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