Resources for teachers
Hackney Museum's taught sessions have been designed to support teachers in their delivery of the National Curriculum. Our teachers packs cover a range of curriculum areas and topics which will support your visit to the museum but will also enable you to use the museum as a teaching resource in the classroom.
The Artist's Eye
Mapping the Change: Olympics Exhibition
A Mapping the Change exhibition of artists' work in response to the changes in East London as a result of the 2012 Olympics. These range from artistic impressions of the Olympic site, to photos through peep holes on Hackney building sites, to an abstract piece about workers on the River Lea to a children's animation film of Matchbox toys returning to their old factory.
Download The Artists' Eye exhibition catalogue for artist information (PDF, 3MB)
Mapping the Change - Treasures on your doorstop
If you've ever wondered what the area around your school was like in the past, or how it has changed over time, then this is the pack for you! Packed with past and present images, maps, census records, timelines and fascinating facts, we're developing packs for each part of Hackney from Stamford Hill to Hackney Wick and Dalston to help you to explore the treasures on your doorstep.
- Clapton (PDF 2.60MB
- Dalston (PDF 2.83MB)
- Homerton (PDF 2.77MB)
- Hackney Wick (PDF 1.52MB)
- Stamford Hill (PDF 1.54MB)
Download your local history pack from the list above or explore 'then and now' photographs of Hackney with your class using Historypin.
Key Stage Two
Objects of resistance: Enslavement and abolition in the 1800s
Citizenship: Living in a diverse world
Citizenship: Good relationships and respecting difference
Citizenship Unit 7: Children's Rights - Human Rights
From the first slave ship to leave British shores in 1562 to the abolition of the slave trade in 1836, the resources in this pack will enable you to explore with your class the role of Britain in the transatlantic slave trade through the stories of the British and African people who campaigned for its abolition.
Download the Abolition teaching pack (PDF, 508KB)
Our African Roots: Teaching about Africa, Roots and Identity
Citizenship: Good relationships and respecting difference
History Unit 13: Britain since 1948
Geography: Passport to the world
We can all trace our roots back to Africa, where humanity and civilisation began. We all have a shared human experience. We all need to know our history to make sense of the world and our place in it. Use this pack to explore Africa, Roots and Identity with your class.
Download the Our African Roots teaching pack (PDF 2.45MB)
Page updated: 21 May 2012
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