Education object boxes and downloadable resources for schools
Bring the unique chance for your pupils to handle real medieval and early modern artefacts from the Grosvenor’s Collection into your school. Order an Object Box filled with everyday objects from the medieval and early modern periods. This experience, suitable for the History curriculum at primary and secondary levels will help develop your pupils skills of historical enquiry, discussion, sense of connections over time, comparisons and ability to inference and use primary evidence.
The themed and non-themed boxes and accompanying educational resources we can offer for loan to schools for the Primary and Secondary Curriculum at all levels include.
Object Box: Medieval Everyday Life
Curriculum Stage Link: Key Stage 1-3 and GCSE.
Object Box: A Global Middle Ages, Medieval Trade
Curriculum Stage Link: Key Stage 1-3 and GSCE
Object Box: Pilgrim, Religious and Spiritual Journeys and Places
Curriculum Stage Link: Key Stage 1-3 and GSCE
Object Box: Regional Studies, Chester
Curriculum Stage Link: Key Stage 1-3 and GSCE
Object Box: Primary Curriculum
Curriculum Stage Link: Key Stage 1-2
To get in touch about ordering a box contact: k.wilson@chester.ac.uk
To see and download the detailed resources available within each box see below for downloadable resources:
Film Introduction to Object Boxes for Teachers
Object Films for Teachers and Pupils
Pilgrim Badges/Devotional Tokens,
Digital Reconstruction of Fourteenth Century Water Tower and St John’s Chester for Teachers and Pupils
Digital Reconstruction of Water Tower and St John’s Chester
Outlines of Each Object Box
Object Box – A Global Middle Ages, Medieval Trade
Object Box – Medieval Everyday Life
Object Box – Pilgrim, Religious and Spiritual Journeys and Places
Object Box – Regional Studies, Chester
Object Box – Primary Curriculum
Lesson Plan Ideas for Object Boxes:
Box Rules:
Handling Session Questions:
Handling Session Questions for Pupils
Class Activities:
Design your own Coins, Keys, Pilgrim Badges, Shoes, Tiles
Further Extension Activities and Curriculum Links:
What Happens Next/Further Curriculum Links Sheet
Extra Resources for Object Box A Global Middle Ages, Medieval Trade
Medieval Maps 1: Hereford Mappa Mundi c. 1300, Medieval Maps 2: Tabula Rogeriana c. 1138, Map of the Silk Routes and Cities on Silk routes, Map of major global trade routes and commercial cities, Different Currencies in the Middle Ages, Images of Merchants, Port Inventories and Accounts, Digital Reconstruction of Water Tower and St John’s Chester
Extra Resources for Object Box Medieval Everyday Life
Medieval Peoples, Medieval Houses/Interiors, Medieval Churches and Cathedrals, Medieval Cities and Towns, Medieval Maps 1: Hereford Mappa Mundi c. 1300, Medieval Maps 2: Tabula Rogeriana c. 1138, Map of major global trade routes and commercial cities, Digital Reconstruction of Water Tower and St John’s Chester
Extra Resources for Object Box Pilgrim, Religious and Spiritual Journeys and Places
Map of Global Pilgrimage Sites, Medieval Maps 1: Hereford Mappa Mundi c. 1300, Medieval Maps 2: Tabula Rogeriana c. 1138, Map of major global trade routes and commercial cities, Medieval Pilgrim Narratives, Medieval Pilgrims/Pilgrim Journeys, Digital Reconstruction of Water Tower and St John’s Chester
Extra Resources for Object Box, Regional Studies Chester
Medieval Maps 1: Hereford Mappa Mundi c. 1300, Medieval Maps 2: Tabula Rogeriana c. 1138, Map of the Silk Routes and Cities on Silk routes, Map of major global trade routes and commercial cities, Different Currencies in the Middle Ages, Maps of the British Isles in the Middle Ages, Merchants Houses Chester, St John’s Church Chester, Chester Cathedral, The Port of Chester in the Fifteenth Century, Digital Reconstruction of Water Tower and St John’s Chester
Extra Resources for Object Box, Primary Curriculum
Medieval Maps 1: Hereford Mappa Mundi c. 1300, Medieval Maps 2: Tabula Rogeriana c. 1138, Map of the Silk Routes and Cities on Silk routes, Map of major global trade routes and commercial cities, Different Currencies in the Middle Ages, Maps of the British Isles in the Middle Ages, Digital Reconstruction of Water Tower and St John’s Chester