This session includes hands-on investigations, practical thinking, object handling and drama, and aims to encourage the pupils to work scientifically whilst learning about the past. Perfect for a local history study or to think about scientific changes over time more broadly.
Learning Outcomes:
- How the approach to plants and science has changed since the 1600s
- Investigate the historic use of plants for medicine
- Understand about the use of classification
- To know key events of the 17th Century
- To understand how people were discriminated in the past
Contact details
Email: 1620shouse@leics.gov.uk
Telephone: 01455 290429
Address: The 1620s House and Garden, Leicestershire, UK
Manor Road, Coalville, United Kingdom, LE67 2FW
Opening hours
Now closed for the winter season