Fit With National Curriculum

You can download free Key stage 1 and 2 worksheets for use on your trip to the Life Zone! here.

Fantastic Plastic is an interactive gallery that explores the use of plastics and other materials in modern surgery. Children can test different materials, and decide which one is most suitable for operations like a hip replacement.

You can find free interactive games  suitable for Key Stage 1 and 2 here.

A visit to the Thackray Museum transports your class back to the grim reality of life in Victorian Britain. Walk through the streets of Leeds in 1842 and experience how the poor really lived and died: the squalor, the sounds and the smells!

Choose a character in the street scenes and search for a remedy for their illness.

This is a taught session for Key Stage 1.

Join Florence and her nurses on their journey to the Crimea and discover the horrors of Scutari hospital. Can you help to make things better for the soldiers, and would Florence have accepted you as a nurse?

You can buy the Florence Nightingale resource pack here.

This is a taught session for Key Stage 2.

Spend your day as a Victorian at the Thackray Museum. Explore time packages of objects relating to six of the characters from the streets of 1842 Leeds and build up a picture of their lives from the artefacts and documents.

Discover where you live and work. Find out what happens when you become ill and decide which cure to try. Can you afford your treatment?

You can buy Key Stage 2 Victorian resource packs here.

These galleries have been designed to support the 'Medicine Through Time' module in GCSE History. A visit with your class would be an excellent introduction to the course, or a useful aid to revision.

Walk through the streets of Leeds in 1842 and experience how people really lived and died: the squalor, the sounds and the smells! Pupils can investigate the dangers to health in an industrial town and then explore the remedies on offer at the time. See how the battle against infectious disease was won, including the work of Jenner, Pasteur, Koch and Fleming. The early days of anaesthetics, the development of antiseptics and blood transfusions, right up to the miracles of modern surgical techniques are all illustrated in the first-floor galleries.

Having a baby, then and now! Why was it so dangerous 150 years ago? Compare a typical setting for childbirth in 1890 with one in use today and see which you’d prefer!

The Museum focuses primarily on developments in medicine and health since the early 1800s. Some of the issues explored include 'why do we live longer than our Victorian counterparts?' and 'do we have healthier lifestyles nowadays?'

You can buy the GCSE history resource pack here.

Visit our 1840s Leeds street to discover the dangers to health from germs that lurk around every corner!

Investigate the major causes of illness and death in Victorian times, and how the work of scientists including Pasteur and Koch means that things are very different today! This museum-led workshop will use an enquiry approach to examine how infectious diseases are spread, the social impact and how scientific advances have changed our lives.

You can buy the Microbes and Disease resource pack here.

As a leading attraction in the area, the Museum is able to offer short introductory talks on different topics to support Leisure and Tourism studies. 

Pre-booking is essential, please call for details.
 

The Museum provides a good introduction to the Health and Social Care curriculum.

You can buy the Key Stage 4 Health and Social Care resource pack here.