The Contribution of Natural History Museums to Science Education
2016
This is a report of a project titled ‘The Contribution of Natural History Museums
to Science Education’, funded by the Wellcome Trust and ESRC with a Phase 1
grant from the Science Learning+ initiative. The project explored how Natural
History Museums (NHMs) and schools can complement one another to maximise
learning among school-age learners, and researched the long-term benefits to
learning and engagement with science that NHMs can provide. During the course
of our work, our team, which consisted of museum professionals and academics in
the UK and the US, worked in the UK and the US with practitioners in NHMs and
with school teachers and students.
Our conclusions, as summarised in this Executive Summary, fall into two areas,
one to do with the provision by museums of learning experiences for students, the
other to do with how NHMs assess the effects of their provision. While our focus
is on NHMs, a number of our conclusions apply more generally.
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