The Vikings Post Primary School Handling Session
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!
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 draws on replica objects to help students learn more about Viking history in Ireland. Activities are tailored for a curriculum-linked learning experience for every age group.
Students will also take a tour of the Viking objects in the Hunt Museum’s Permanent Collection.
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: 30 euro plus VAT 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
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: 30 euro plus VAT for 10 days.
Art
History
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