Here are our recommendations for activities and resources to maximise the learning from this object. Use the Activities to get to know to your object first, then Get Creative!
This is a girder which was produced in Middlesbrough by Dorman, Long Company, a company set up by 2 local business men, Arthur Dorman and Albert de Lande Long in 1876.
By 1900 this company employed over 3,000 workers and by 1914 the workforce grew to over 20,000.
Dorman Long built the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia in 1922 – one of the most famous bridges in the world.
In your first online session your Education Officer will introduce students to the object and get them thinking and talking about it.
You could follow that up with these activities from the ‘Object activity ideas’ pdf, on the Introduce your object page.
1. History Detectives.
2. Drawing for looking and recording.
3. Questions and Hypothesising.
We suggest you try these activities on the Get Creative page
1. Time travelling reporter.
2. Interviews from the past.
3. Design a poster.
Bridges all over the world have been made with Middlesbrough steel.
Can you design a bridge that is:
Strong
Long, but what will keep it up in the middle?
Attractive, who wants an ugly bridge?
Useful, where would your bridge go? Who would use it? Why is it needed?
When finished, share your ideas with the class.
Museum name: The Dorman Museum
Contact name: Sue Sedgwick
Phone number: 01642 358108
Email: susan_sedgwick@middlesbrough.gov.uk
Learning from home? This download is full of ways to explore this object for students who can’t be in school.
This is a girder which was produced in Middlesbrough by Dorman, Long Company, a company set up by 2 local business men, Arthur Dorman and Albert de Lande Long in 1876.
By 1900 this company employed over 3,000 workers and by 1914 the workforce grew to over 20,000.
Dorman Long built the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia in 1922 – one of the most famous bridges in the world.
In your first online session your Education Officer will introduce students to the object and get them thinking and talking about it.
You could follow that up with these activities from the ‘Object activity ideas’ pdf, on the Introduce your object page.
1. History Detectives.
2. Drawing for looking and recording.
3. Questions and Hypothesising.
We suggest you try these activities on the Get Creative page
1. Time travelling reporter.
2. Interviews from the past.
3. Design a poster.
What’s the Connection?
The Dorman museum? Dorman Long Company? Can you find out the connection and the reason why the museum was built?
If you could have a building all about you, what would it be? What could you do there? Who would it be for? Draw what your building would look like and create a floor plan of the rooms inside.
Museum name: The Dorman Museum
Contact name: Sue Sedgwick
Phone number: 01642 358108
Email: susan_sedgwick@middlesbrough.gov.uk
Learning from home? This download is full of ways to explore this object for students who can’t be in school.
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