This online educational activity is aimed at KS2 and KS3 (and equivalent) students. In Make a Museum students learn about the history of telecommunications through the study of artefacts, including listening to oral histories and watching original footage. They select one of eight themes from communications history and curate their own exhibition by selecting, organising and interpreting historical artefacts. The students then present their multimedia exhibition to their class.
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Lesson support material
fun and games
Can you beat our games? Explode equipment to see what's inside, hear the changing sounds of telecommunications, see how telecommunications designs have changed over time or send an e-postacard.
what's on
History of telecommunications in the UK to be digitised in New Connections project - BT Archives, Coventry University and The National Archives to put key photographs and documents online. Find out more...
audio history
Take a trip down memory lane with extracts of the interviews which have been recorded as part of the Connected Earth oral history programme.
featured story
100 years of automatic switching!
In 1912 the GPO installed Britain's first automatic telephone exchange in Epsom.
