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This blog is for additional notes and films to support the learning resources made for CultureStreet's Museums Channel.

For each museum featured on CultureStreet, Keith Alexander and the artists@work team took groups of children to a museum and let them select the exhibit they found the most intriguing.They then filmed the pupils interviewing curators about the chosen artifact. 

I got the job of making engaging lessons using the objects as the focus. All the lessons

have direct links to the current National Curriculum (England) and use the learners' higher order thinking skills.

Objects chosen by the children included a clockwork toy horse, a Victorian hand-held film viewer and a stuffed midget cow!

The project has been one of the best experiences of my teaching career - and not just because it didn't involve a single break duty...