Pre- Christian Ireland; Stone Age – Bronze Age
Suitability : Senior Cycle
Duration: 90 minutes
Cost: €3.50 per student, Teachers go Free
Suitability : Senior Cycle
Duration: 90 minutes
Cost: €3.50 per student, Teachers go Free
Discover what life was like for people in Pre-Christian Ireland through interactive group activities, a tour of our Collection, handling of replica objects and new innovative digital interactives.
Focusing on the Stone Age and Bronze Age, students will build their visual literacy as they learn about the materials, production methods and decoration techniques used to make everyday tools and objects in prehistoric times.
During this workshop, students will use visual thinking strategies to examine and compare settlements from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age to determine how lifestyles improved in conjunction to the development of new materials and technologies. They will use digital interactives to investigate archeological objects from our Collection and participate in group art activities.
This workshop will support students to complete written questions in content area 2; Ireland and it`s place in the wider world; Pre-Christian section of the Leaving Certificate Examinations.
Available to rent for 10 days at a cost of 35 Euro
Suitable for Primary and Secondary Schools
This loan box comes with a set of instructions enabling teachers to set up and deliver our fun and engaging workshops in the classroom.
This loan box contains an array of replica objects and activity resources, that bring the history of the Viking Age to life.
Teachers must be able to collect and return loan boxes to and from the hunt museum
The Vikings Post Primary School Handling Session – Suitable for Junior Certificate and Transition Year Students.
Duration: 60mins
Cost €3.50 per student, teachers go free!
This workshop utilizes replica objects, digital interactives, and artifacts from our collection to enhance students’ understanding of the Vikings’ history in Ireland. It informs them about the Viking culture, including their lifestyle, clothing, weapons used in battles, and innovative technology that they introduced to the Irish people.
Curricular Links:
Visual Art: Strand – Art (Element: Critical and visual language, 1.1,
1.2 ; Element: Visual Culture and Appreciation
History: Strand – Developing Historical Consciousness – History of Ireland
Geography: Strand – Exploring People, Places, and Change
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This is also available as a loan box.
The Hunt Museum offers a range of different loan boxes containing an array of handling material, and activity resources, that can bring the past to life in the classroom.
Contains artifacts relating to Ireland’s Viking age, and the role of the Norsemen in Limerick.
Cost: 35 euro for 10 days.
History
Ancient Ireland Handling Session: During this workshop, students will use their senses to analyse and evaluate various replica objects. This will enable them to construct historical narratives, and interpret what life was like in the Stone Age and Bronze Age.
They will also take a tour of the prehistoric objects in the Hunt Museum’s Permanent Collection.
Relevant to the Junior cycle
Duration: 60 mins
€3.50 per student, teachers go free!
This is also available as a loan box.
The Hunt Museum offers a range of different loan boxes containing an array of handling material, and activity resources, that can bring the past to life in the classroom.
This can be used to learn about Ireland in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age.
Cost: 30 euro plus VAT for 10 days.
History
Visual Art
English
Science
Environmental Social Studies
For 3rd and 4th Classes
Cost: 3.50 per pupil, teachers go free!
Duration: 2 hours including 15 minute break
This workshop takes learners on a journey through the Stone Age and Bronze Age. Through the handling of replica objects and analyzing archaeology in the Collection, they will learn how people lived, their beliefs and practices and what technologies emerged and evolved during these prehistoric periods. Visual thinking strategies will be used in conjunction with our beautifully illustrated Life in the Bronze Age exhibition, deepening learner knowledge.
History
Science
Geography
Suitable for 1st – 6th class
€3.50 per pupil, teachers go free!
This workshop is all about the Vikings. Pupils engage in active learning through handling replica objects such as clothing tools and weapons. During this tour they experience original Viking objects in our collection and complete related activities facilitating cross curricular learning. This workshop can be tailored to suit different age groups and learning abilities.
Curricular Links:
Art: Drawing & Constructing
Strand: Looking & Responding
History: Stories; Early People & Ancient Societies;
Change & Continuity; Working as a Historian;
Local Studies
This is also available as a loan box.
The Hunt Museum offers a range of different loan boxes containing an array of handling material, and activity resources, that can bring the past to life in the classroom.
Contains artifacts relating to Ireland’s Viking age, and the role of the Norsemen in Limerick.
Cost: 35 euro for 10 days.
Art
History
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