Animal Hunt Online Programme

This 20 minute video workshop introduces Primary School students to animal based collections at the Hunt Museum. Students learn how artists throughout history have depicted animals in their art, and why certain animals are important to different cultures. Students will be introduced to the online research tools that will help them complete the Animal Hunt 3D online activity.

Animal Hunt 3D Workshop

History

  • Strand: Early people and ancient societies

Art

  • Strand: Drawing
  • Strand: Making & constructing
  • Strand: Looking & Observing

Collection Protection

Primary School students will learn how materials (artefacts/objects) in the Hunt Museum’s Permanent Collection decay and degrade over time. They will also learn about the science of preserving them for the future.

  • Resource 1 is designed for in-class presentation. Students will be introduced to objects in the Hunt Museum’s Permanent Collection. They will be taught how to categorise these objects as organic or inorganic, based on their materials. 
  • Resource 2 is designed to be printed out and used as a hard copy for students. Through a series of practical experiments, students will explore how some of the materials in the Hunt Museum Permanent Collections erode.
  • Resource 3 is a presentation introducing students to methods of preservation and restoration carried out in the Hunt Museum

Science

  • Energy and forces
  • Materials

Visual Art

  • Strand: Painting and colour

Geography

  • Natural Environments
  • Rocks and soils
  • Weather, Climate, and Atmosphere

 

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