Engineering Change
Engineering Change
Our Engineering Change themed week focuses on climate change and sustainability.
As part of this themed week, we invited Key Stage 2 learners to join us for digital activities where they can use art and science to explore environmental sustainability and change-making.
We teamed up with Artsmark partner Wembley Primary School and their Year 5 students to produce the Engineering Change themed week: putting children’s voices and ideas into the heart of the experience.
Our Engineering Change themed week and Kids in Museum Takeover Day are delivered thanks to our Climate Crossroads sponsors: Mott MacDonald, Cubic Transportation Systems, Mastercard and Sopra Steria.
Did you know...
In the 1800s, steam locomotives were responsible for emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, giving way to poor air quality and awful living conditions.
One quote from The Times newspaper in 1884 even said: “A journey from Kings Cross to Baker St is a form of mild torture which no person would undergo if he could conveniently help it.”
Workshops
Bus for the Future
Available: 8, 9,10, 11 November at 9:15, 10:30, 12:30 and 13:45 each day
Duration: 45 minutes
Location: Virtual session
Cost: £60 per workshop
Capacity: Maximum one class per workshop
In this KS2 STEM workshop you’ll explore the history of transport and discover the important role engineers play in keeping us moving. You’ll explore how buses through time have been powered and start to think about how to create a sustainable future.
KS2: Science, Design and Technology, History
Kids in Museums Digital Takeover Day live stream
Time: 10:30-11am
Date: 12 November
Location: Zoom
Cost: Free
Join us for an interactive 30 minute livestream event as part of Kids in Museums Digital Takeover Day. Children from Wembley Primary School will be putting their questions to grown-ups in the transport industry to find out what actions they are taking to help build a greener future. Participants will also have the chance to put their own questions to the panel with a live Q&A.
There will also be an activity to try out at school to explore the impacts of the climate crisis, and what we can do as individuals to make a difference.
To book this session please email [email protected].
Please note that this session will be recorded although participants will not be visible.
Can’t join us live? Don’t worry, you can catch this session later and complete the activity in your own time! The video will be available on our YouTube channel after the event.
Curriculum links: Art and Design, Science, History
Eco Interventions
We’ve been working with Year 5 students from Wembley Primary School to create a showcase of Eco Interventions which can be used to inspire environmental learning in the classroom.
Explore the resources below including videos, artworks, plans for cleaner ways to travel and tools to help to carry out your own environmental audit.
Eco Change Makers
Did you know?
In central London, all double-decker buses became hybrid as of 2019 and all single-decker buses now emit zero exhaust emissions?
Eco Change Maker Posters
Small actions make a big difference.
Explore our poster gallery to see a showcase of colourful posters created by students at Wembley Park sending powerful environmental messages and actions around the themes of biodiversity and green spaces, journeys and travel, energy, what we consume and waste.
How can you use art to encourage people in your school (and across the country) to make important environmental changes? What language will you use to help encourage people?
Go Green Detectives
Children at Wembley Primary School became detectives and recorded how eco-friendly their school was by carrying out our environmental audit activities.
Why not carry out your own environmental audit at your school? Collect the information you discover in a table to present to the rest of your class.
What changes can your school make on a small scale to help climate change and make a big difference to our environment?
Whether it’s walking to school, planting pollinating flowers, turning off lights or reusing / recycling make sure your ideas for change are heard.
Check back soon for a helpful video on how to carry out your own Eco Audit.
Planning your greener journeys
Did you know you can use TfL travel apps to help plan greener journeys throughout the city?
Read more
Read more about our Engineering Change activities on our blog.
- Climate Crossroads
Teaming up with Mastercard to create a greener future
This summer, we’re teaming up with Mastercard to offer our visitors the opportunity to take a small action that will help restore some of the world’s forests. Find out how!
- Climate Crossroads
- Families
Come on a Green Journey with us
Find out more about our Green Journey summer workshops, inspiring families to learn about possible solutions to climate change.
- Guest blog
- Climate Crossroads
Energy Garden: Bringing Community Energy to the London Overground
Energy Garden is a Community Benefit Society that invests in renewable energy infrastructure to support community development. Find out how they help tackle the lack of accessible green space in urban environments by creating community-owned renewable energy and garden initiatives on transport infrastructure across London.
- Climate Crossroads
How are engineers creating a greener future?
Discover some of the solutions helping to make our city more sustainable.
- Young People's Skills Programme
- Learning Programmes
Engineering Change - Environmental warriors in the making
How can children become aware of environmental issues through exploring the history of transport? The children of Wembley Primary School have a lot to say about it, and we should be listening. Read more in this blog by Young Freelancer, Daisy Howarth.
- Young People's Skills Programme
Discovering London's transport history through green lenses
Young Freelancer Feyi Olubajo shares her experience of researching our collection through the lenses of environmental issues to develop a green-themed scavenger hunt for adults exploring the Museum.
Climate Crossroads
Our Climate Crossroads programme imagines what the future could look like for London, and with the support of our programme sponsors Mott MacDonald, Cubic Transportation Systems and Sopra Steria, aims to inspire our visitors to take action that helps us get there together.
Over the next 18 months, we’ll be bringing you a line-up of school holiday family activities, green-themed After Dark events, thought leadership debates for business leaders and policy makers and skills and employability support for young people.
See some of our upcoming events and explore our green stories below.
The future of our city - and our world - is all in the air. Our Climate Crossroads programme imagines what the future looks like and inspires our visitors and partners to take action. Discover our green-themed activities, events, stories and objects from our collection.
From Steam to Green
Take part in interactive STEM-inspired activities this half term and discover how transport has changed from the early days of steam power to the latest 'green' vehicles.
Learn more about ten vehicles at the Museum Depot with some kind of ‘green’ story to tell.
Related pages
Teacher resources to enhance classroom learning about the Windrush and Caribbean communities, exploring themes such as identity, belonging, racism, and discrimination, including films co-created with a local primary school based on the lives and inspirational careers of London Transport’s Caribbean workforce.
Case studies from the Museum's offer for students at Key Stage 4 and 5, which included a virtual Air Quality Challenge, a Green Skills Hackathon and a co-creation project, Inspire Engineering Careers.
This game for 8-11-year-olds on the Musemio app takes players travelling through time to 1944 to explore the Clapham South deep-level shelter, reliving accounts from families staying there during World War II and discovering their secrets.
Find the information you need to plan and book your visit to London Transport Museum in Covent Garden or the London Transport Museum Depot in Acton, west London.
This Autumn, join us for a week of digital events and virtual workshops for Key Stage 2 learners focusing on climate change and sustainability.
Join us from 29 June - 19 July as we celebrate Children's Art Week and delve into the rich design heritage of London's transport history
Find out more about our CPD for teachers, upcoming special events, school workshops and special offers - and join our teachers mailing list.
Explore the story of London’s social history, celebrate London Transport’s world-class design heritage and develop historic and contemporary STEAM learning with a school visit or session in your school.
We are proud to be supporting schools and education settings on their Artsmark journey, inspiring children and young people to create, experience, and participate in great arts and culture.
With our broad collection of vehicles, objects and posters, our collection is accessible to students with a wide range of needs. Take part in our Early Explorer Mornings, self-guided visits, or Sensory Horse Bus workshop.
