Foxton Locks offers an excellent learning environment that extends beyond the classroom and helps schools deliver learning opportunities to inspire in a creative and authentic way.
Learning
Build A Canal is an exercise which helps pupils understand the STEM principles of water pressure, measuring mass alongside HUMS topics of community and change, cause and consequence. Students learn how our landscape has evolved because of the waterway network.
The canal and River Trust has developed a range of materials to support this exercise that can be delivered in the classroom or in the museum. We also have a loans box that can be used to help you demonstrate the principles and decisions involved in building the canals. Pupils can become engineers and builders and create their own solutions to a problem.
The Canal and River Trust in conjunction with Rolls Royce have also developed a series of STEM projects to explore the Science curriculum using our waterways and the water cycle.
These projects can be explored in a classroom environment or delivered by the museum.
Topics that can be explored are:
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Water pressure / lock gates
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Hydraulics / Pascal's Principal
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Measuring mass / Upthrust / Archimedes
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River erosion / Water PH
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Mechanisms / Levers / Gears
To find out more, please contact the museum.
To find out more about the Build a Canal exercise and the museum's loans box please contact Foxton Canal Museum: learning@foxtoncanalmuseum.org
