Campaign! Make an Impact
British Library (see website) with partners – see below
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Description:
Campaign! Make an Impact is an innovative British Library developed programme that uses history to inspire young people into active citizenship.
This cross-curricular programme uses historical campaigns to inspire and teach campaign skills, enabling children and young people to run their own campaigns about issues that affect them today. It’s based around a three step model which:
- uses historical campaigns along with museum, library and archive collections such as the abolition of the slave trade, women’s sufferage, Chartism or public health as stimulus
- teaches young people creative campaigning skills
- lets young people choose what they would like to campaign for and enables them to run creative campaigns.
So far they have chosen topics such as bullying, somewhere to go after school, knife crime, the right to be heard, child abuse, school food, litter - to name but a few.
This is a national programme with the British Library working in partnership with the MLA Council that is being rolled out across England in 2009/11, funded through the DCMS/DCSF Strategic Commissioning Programme. It was developed in partnership with museums and organisations in Yorkshire including Hull Museums, Harewood House, Thackray Medical Museum and the Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association.
See list below for participating museums, libraries and archives in Yorkshire:
Hull Museum Education Service
anim8ted online animation resource (with National Media Museum, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery and York Castle Museum)
North Yorkshire County Council Record Office
Contact Details:
For information on the full Campaign! Make an Impact Programme, classroom and web resources and information on how to get involved go to the website (see link above)
Learning Programmes:
The Campaign! Make an Impact model is extremely flexible and can be used for:
- a range of curriculum subjects at KS2-4 including History, Citizenship, ICT, English, Drama, Art
- Enterprise Education, Personal Learning and Thinking Skills, Every Child Matters, Extended Services, cross-curricular/enhanced curriculum days, SEAL, Working with the local community, School Councils, Working on whole school issues.
Specialisms:
The Quakers: Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things from Ryedale Folk Museum is our most recently published Campaign! Make an Impact learning journey.
Associated Learning Journeys
 Campaign! SlaveryUsing museum collections as a stimulus for modern day campaigning Read More » |
