EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE | ADMISSION DISCOUNTS | TRANSPORT TRIO The Lakeland Motor Museum is a great educational resource:- Key Stage 1 Experiencing the range of vehicles and artefacts at the museum would provide inspiration for further work on transport, including: History Look at vehicles now and then, finding similarities and differences between today and in the past.  Introduce children to the concepts of `old’ and `new’, and encourage them to think about the changes in their own lives and in those of their family or adults around them.  Adapt QCA Unit 1: `How are our toys different from those in the past ?’ Investigate features of vehicles and artefacts associated with transport, enabling children to develop criteria to distinguish old from new, and to learn about life at a time beyond living memory.  Adapt QCA Unit 2: `What were homes like a long time ago ?’ Design and technology Learn about wheels and axles and how to use these when making wheeled vehicles for a specific purpose.  Develop design ideas based on investigating vehicles in the world around.  Unit 2A: Vehicles. Geography Children may investigate a local issue common to most schools – parking. Unit 2: How can we make our local area safer ? Science Children learn about different sorts of movement and how to describe these.  They relate movement to pushes and pulls.  Experimental and investigative work focuses on making observations and communicating them.  Children also relate understanding of movement to everyday contexts such as road safety.  Unit 1E: Pushes and pulls Unit 2E: Forces and movement. English Opportunities for speaking and listening.  Stimulus for writing leaflets, information texts, recounts, non-chronological reports and stories about journeys. Key Stage 2 The Lakeland Motor Museum provides an opportunity to fulfill Art and design Unit 9 `Visiting a museum, gallery or site’. It would also provide inspiration for Art and design Unit 4C: Journeys Design and technology Unit 5C: Moving toys Design and technology Unit 6D: Controllable vehicles Geography Unit 12: Should the high street be closed to traffic ? Geography Unit 20: Local traffic – an environmental issue History Unit 13: How has life in Britain changed since 1948 ? Science Unit 4E: Friction The Campbell Bluebird Exhibition could provide a stimulus for information texts on topics of interest, non-chronological reports, letters written for a range of purposes, reports and articles in newspapers and magazines, debates, information texts linked to other curricular areas, recounts of events and visits, diaries and journals, records of observations which recount experiences and events, journalistic writing, historical stories and poems based on common themes. Reduced Rate Admission Charges for Schools & Children's Groups Child Admission Charges for Groups is £3.50 (Saving £1 off normal admission charge) Free Adult place for every 10 child places. Please ring the museum on 015395 58328 for further details or to book. Transport Trio School & children's groups can take advantage of this great value day covering three fascinating forms of transportation. A single cruise from Bowness to Lakeside or visa versa A one way ride on the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Steam Railway A visit to the Lakeland Motor Museum at Holker Hall Adult £9.85. Child (5- 15 years) £6.75 Please contact Windermere Lake Cruises for further details and to make a booking  - Tel: (015394) 42600