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Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Bolton School Girls from Years 8 and 9 were transported back to
the age of the dinosaur with a hands-on workshop run by the Bolton
Museum and Archive Service.
Alex McLeman, the Formal Learning Manager from the museum,
visited the school and brought along Prehistoric casts and fossils,
Egyptian artefacts and Global Explorer specimens from around the
world. Alex spoke to the girls about the origins of the objects and
when they lived on the earth, and encouraged them to pick up the
pieces and ask questions.
Among the items Alex brought along were a stuffed Armadillo, a
deer head and a horn. From the continent of Oceania he
brought a shark carved out of wood, a boomerang, and a giant shell,
and the Palaeontology section included a massive claw, a T-Rex's
skull, and a Velociraptor's skull and claw. Also there was a
mammoth's jaw and teeth, a bison bone that was over 5000 years old
from the ice age period in Horwich, and amazingly the biggest moth
in the world. Many girls were fascinated by the objects from
a mummy's tomb in Egypt and the connection between Egypt and Bolton
during the industrial revolution.
The girls all thought the workshop, organised by the Learning
Support Department, was very interesting and they made sketches of
their favourite things from the collection as a memento.
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