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 piece of the original Stockton and Darlington Railway, which opened on 27th September 1825.
This rail piece is made from cast iron.
George Stephenson not only worked on which route the railway should take, but designed Locomotion No 1, the first steam locomotive to run on the line.
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. Looking closer
2. Questionning and hypothesising
3. Drawing for looking and recording
We suggest you try these activities on the Get Creative page
1. Word cloud
2. Vocabulary of the time
3. Little book – the oldest thing
Imagine where you have travelled to by train over rails like this one. Write a postcard home about it.
Museum name: Head of Steam – Darlington Railway Museum
Contact name: Sarah Gouldsbrough
Phone number: 01325 405541
Email: sarah.gouldsbrough@darlington.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 piece of the original Stockton and Darlington Railway, which opened on 27th September 1825.
This rail piece is made from cast iron.
George Stephenson not only worked on which route the railway should take, but designed Locomotion No 1, the first steam locomotive to run on the line.
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.
We suggest you try these activities on the Get Creative page
Not everyone was happy with the railway being built across their land. Write down some points for and against the railway. Why not debate the points in class as if you were in a meeting in 1820!
Museum name: Head of Steam – Darlington Railway Museum
Contact name: Sarah Gouldsbrough
Phone number: 01325 405541
Email: sarah.gouldsbrough@darlington.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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