Key Stage 2 Educational Activities

Handling Collection

Children are able to handle and try on historic RAF uniforms and look at other paraphernalia relating to aviation and the Second World War.

Activity type: Museum staff led workshop
National Curriculum links: History KS 1 and 2: Units 2-4. KS 2: Unit 11b, Britain since 1930.
Duration: Approximately 45 minutes
Cost: £10
Class size: Maximum 30 children per class, 3 classes per day.
Timetables for a complete museum visit are provided.

The Wartime Classroom

Children go back in time for a 1940s lesson in our wartime classroom. They make a gas mask case, use exercise books for £.s.d. arithmetic, fill in an evacuee label and National Identity card using a dip pen and ink well. The air raid siren adds extra realism.

Activity type: Museum staff led workshop
Key Stage: 2
National Curriculum links: History unit 11b, Britain since 1930. The impact of the Second World War, The Blitz and evacuation.
Duration: Approximately 1 hour
Cost: £60 per class
Class size: Maximum 40 children (with adults standing) per class, 3 classes per day.
Timetables for a complete museum visit are provided.

Aeronauts Interactive Centre

The gallery has over 40 hands on experiments to help students to understand the science of flight. Topics such as air resistance, friction, balances, circuits, light and reflection and G-Forces are covered. Worksheets tailored for Key Stages 1 and 2 are available on this website.

Schools booking other education programmes are timetabled to make a self guided visit to Aeronauts.

Specialised talks and demonstrations can be provided upon request.

Activity type: Museum staff led workshop
Key Stage: 1 and 2
National Curriculum links: Key Stages 1 and 2: Sc1 Scientific enquiry, Sc3 Materials and their properties, Sc4 Physical processes.
Duration: Approximately 45 minutes
Cost: £10
Class Size: Maximum 30 children per class, 3 classes per day.
Timetables for a complete museum visit are provided.

Rocket Science

Children get to design and make a rocket and launch it safely. The rockets are propelled using an electrically – controlled compressed air launcher. This workshop can be held indoors or outdoors.

Activity type: Museum staff led workshop
Key Stage: 2
National Curriculum links: Sc1 Scientific enquiry, Sc4 Physical Processes – Forces and Motion
Duration: Approximately one hour
Cost: £15 per class
Class size: Maximum 30 children per class, 3 classes per day.
Timetables for a complete museum visit are provided.

Parachutes

Children learn about how parachutes work and what they are made of. They then have to use the ideas discussed to design, make and test a model parachute!

Activity type: Museum staff led workshop
Key Stage: 2
National Curriculum links: Sc1 Scientific enquiry, Sc4 Physical Processes – Forces and Motion
Duration: Approximately one hour
Cost: £15 per class
Class size: Maximum 30 children per class, 3 classes per day.
Timetables for a complete museum visit are provided

Art

Children are welcome to do first-hand observation drawings of our aircraft in the various aircraft halls. However we ask that children use only dry media.

An introduction to the collections on display can be provided by our staff.

Photography is also allowed throughout the Museum.

Key Stage: 1 and 2
National Curriculum links: Key stages 1 and 2: Art and Design, Unit : Exploring and developing ideas and Unit 2: Investigating and making art, craft and design.
Cost: Free
Timetables for a complete museum visit can be provided.