This Science Week explore the work of the Archaeologist!
This tour will focus on the science of archaeology and the work of the archaeologist. This tour will support students in acquiring historical skills, conceptual understanding, and historical consciousness, as part of their curriculum requirements. Students will learn about the role of the National Museum of Ireland - Archaeology and how archaeologists study the past, through artefacts within the Museum's collection. During this tour, students will get the opportunity to engage with the Museum’s teaching collection and explore how archaeology helps us understand the past.
Guided Tour at a glance
Level: 5th and 6th Class
Format: Facilitated onsite tour
Duration: 45-50 minutes
Accessibility: Please note the majority of this tour takes place in the Viking Ireland Exhibition on the first floor. If your group has any access concerns or requirements please advise the Museum Bookings team at time of booking
Capacity: 30 students max
Times: 10:00am & 11:30am.
Availability: Tuesday 10th & Wednesday 11th November.
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Curriculum Links
Working as an Historian
Time and Chronology / Using Evidence / Change and Continuity / Cause and Effect / Synthesis and Communications / Empathy
Early Peoples and Ancient Societies
Vikings / Early Christian Ireland
Continuity and Change Over Time
Communications / Literature, Arts, Crafts, and Culture
Other Curriculum Links
SESE Geography
A Sense of Place and Space / Maps, Globes, and Graphical Skills / Human Environments / People and Other Lands / Natural Environments
SESE Science
Living Things / Materials / Environmental Awareness and Care
Learning outcomes
On completion of this live session students should be able to:
- Examine critically, and become familiar with, evidence we have which tells us about these people, especially using Archaeological evidence of these people within the National Museum of Ireland’s collection
- Become familiar with some aspects of the lives of these peoples – origins, homelands and migrations, homes, settlements and urban developments, food and farming, clothes, work and technologies, tools and weapons, cultural or artistic achievements, language(s), myths and stories, leisure and pastimes