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Handling History with Sarah Dhanjal - Part 4
15 September 2020
UCL Institute of Archaeology alumna Sarah Dhanjal has written a series of blogs for the UCL Public Engagement Unit about museum work that happens outside the public eye.
Sarah Dhanjal was an undergraduate and graduate student at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, moving into a career working in engagement with many of London’s museums and collections.
In this series for the UCL Public Engagement Unit, Sarah highlights her experiences using different collections with primary school children. In her fourth blog post, she talks about working with objects from Ancient Egypt and how she created a lesson in mummification.
As Sarah indicates:
“ The workshop I developed for UCL is for Key Stage 2 pupils, aged 8-11, and I visited many schools to run it over the course of nearly a decade. I don’t ignore chronology or content, it’s just taught with a lighter touch. I focus a lot more now on what the pupils can tell me, adding to their knowledge by linking with it. The introduction to the session is where this is most important, that lays out the context of the objects.