Accession No
6616.16
Brief Description
‘Things of Science’ educational kit (Shells, no. 3), by Advisory Centre for Education,English, c. 1966
Origin
Cambridge, England
Maker
Advisory Centre for Education
Class
demonstration; games; natural history
Earliest Date
Latest Date
Inscription Date
(c)
Material
Paper (card, paper); organic material (shells); plastic
Dimensions
163mm (width) x 119mm (height) x 27mm (depth)
Special Collection
Provenance
Purchased from www.eBay.co.uk on or before 18/12/2015.
Inscription
Description Notes
‘Things of Science’ educational kit (Shells, no. 3), by Advisory Centre for Education,English, c. 1966.
Things of Science kit, no. 3, ‘Shells’, printed 1966.
Box contains nine shells (half of a mussel, a white blunt, a winkle, a dog whelk, half of a cockle, a top shell, an auger, a limpet and a canary, fold-out instruction booklet, a piece of card with 4 triangles each assigned to a letter, a piece of graph paper. All contained within a plastic tray. The instructions educate the owner on shells and classification, including shells’ functions, how they are made and what lives inside of them. It also encourages the reader to do an experiment discovering how the spiral of a shell works. It seems to me the graph paper and piece of card with triangles on it are not meant to be in this kit however there is a chance that they are part of it.
Condition: good/fair, tears in plastic tray, and box is somewhat worn. Complete.
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Description
These Things of Science kits, created by Advisory Centre for Education in the 1960s, would have been sent out to young audiences in the U.K. and enabled the user to practice science experiments relating to the contents of the box. Subjects were broad and covered topics such as simple machines, osmosis and shells as well as road safety. The kits were inspired by their U.S. counterparts, created by Science Service from the 1940s onwards. Originally, Advisory Centre for Education purchased the U.S. kits and relabelled them, but although these kits contain the same materials as the U.S. kits, they are completely repackaged.
08/09/2016
Created by: Rosanna Evans on 08/09/2016
FM:47158
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