Learning Resources
Learning Resources
Please find below free to download learning resources for all ages and abilities. These teaching resources may be of benefit in the classroom and beyond the classroom learning.
Young Entrepreneurs Project
Free to download resources, training guide and videos for you to your own Young Entrepreneurs Project with young people. Using heritage as an inspiration, and developing their creative and employability skills
The Night Watchmens Reports
This pack and teachers guides set out a number of activities for pupil’s at Key Stage 3 and 4. The activities suggested are interactive ways to explore and construct meaning from a specific primary source; the “The Watchmen’s Reports February 3rd 1833 to July 16th 1836” held at Derbyshire Record Office.
Children's Guide
'The Story of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site' is our Children's Guide, introducing this fascinating, special place. The short book is beautifully illustrated by local artist Rebecca Morledge.
Introducing the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site
Introducing the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site texts, for use with different audiences, developed as part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site (DVMWHS) Joint Education and Engagement Project
KS2 Derwent Valley Mills Creative Outreach Loan Boxes
There are five separate free to loan resource boxes of creative and artistic activities linked to themes of why the Derwent Valley Mills was inscribed as a World Heritage Site: buildings, waterwheels, people, transport and landscape.
Teachers Pack: The Impact of the Factory System
What was the impact of the factory system and the building of the cotton mills on the working lives of men, women and children living in the Derwent Valley in the past? Although old this teacher's pack contains a wealth of sources and activities to explore children's lives and local history.
Teachers Pack: Living in Belper in the past
Although old this teacher pack contains a wealth of sources and activities to carry out an enquiry-based approach to a local study of Belper, in Derbyshire. The focus of the pack is the industrial settlement built by Jedediah Strutt and his successors for their workforce from 1788.
Learning Day
Using Outstanding Universal Value, Values and Attributes in Learning Activities
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Resource – Victorian Games
Download the instructions for a variety of Victorian children's games and have a go at skipping, cup and ball, hoops, hop scotch and other typical Victorian games that would have been enjoyed when the Derwent Valley Mills were in operation.
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Resource – William Bamford’s Diary
Use a site visit, a reading of a book (like Scavenger Boy by Theresa Tomlinson) to inspire some creative writing. Write a diary entry for a 'day in the life of a mill child' or write a newspaper report about a special occasion or incident at the mills. You could even use inspiration from the many interesting, intriguing and some downright gruesome entries in William Bamford's diary.
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Resource – Waterwheels
There are 3 types of waterwheels: undershot, breastshot and overshot, there are also water turbines. Learn how to create undershot and overshot waterwheels.
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