SCHOOL
ACTIVITIES
SCHOOL
ACTIVITIES
The educational programme of the Dámaso Navarro Museum is aimed at Petrer schools, although the visit to the castle is also open to centres in other municipalities. The different activities are focused on learning, through the history of our town’s past and on a series of basic concepts and processes. The content is adapted to the different curricular stages of the students’ training process. At present, we have a total of 8 activities carried out in the Dámaso Navarro Museum, in schools or in the historic centre of Petrer. Every activities are free.
If you belong to a school and wish to carry out any of the activities described with us, contact the Museo Dámaso Navarro to arrange the visit or ask for advice through the contact form on our website or through the following means:
- Phone: +34 966 98 94 00
- Email: museo@petrer.es
CHILDREN'S EDUCATION
- The Museum in the school. Didactic case - The Prehistory
- Recommended course or age: 4 years
- Duration: 1 hour
- Description: Through an audiovisual and a series of didactic replicas of prehistoric objects of the museum, infants are taught the way of life of these societies of the past, using games and practical demonstrations to learn about their customs.
- We go to the Museum - New Museum Dámaso Navarro
- Recommended course or age: 5 years
- Duration: 1 hour (excluding transfers)
- Description: Guided and didactic visit through the collection of the Dámaso Navarro Museum so that they become familiar with and know the basic notions of the History and heritage of Petrer. To do this, we have a series of didactic activities throughout the tour: touching pieces and reproductions, making a paper mosaic and stickers similar to the Roman mosaic, guessing games and making flour in a prehistoric mill.
PRIMARY SCHOOL
- The Castle and the Cave - Houses of the Wall
- Recommended course or age: 3rd Primary
- Duration: 1 hour y 45 minutes (excluding transfers)
- Description: Guided visit through the most important patrimonial milestones of the village of Petrer, knowing its secrets and the historical role it has played throughout History. Adapting the content of the visit to the age, we stress the need to safeguard our cultural heritage and the historical evolution that has led us to make the current society.
- Archaeological Workshop
- Recommended course or age: 6th Primary
- Duration: 1 hour y 15 minutes (excluding transfers)
- Description: Didactic workshop in which participants are expected to have a first contact with Petrer archaeology and history. This will provide a brief explanation of the activity, prior to the development of the same by teams. The activity will be carried out with simulations of the different archaeological research processes while filling in an archaeological booklet as a synthesis of the activity.
- We're going to the Museum: Museum Dámaso Navarro
- Recommended course or age: 4th Primary (8 years old)
- Duration: 1 hour (excluding transfers)
- Description: The aim of this activity is for children to value and respect the heritage bequeathed to us by our ancestors, and to place local history within the general framework they already know.
For this, we will make explanations adapted to their knowledge and we can interact with the students with objects and replicas, carrying out activities according to their age and curricular content.
SECONDARY SCHOOL
- Didactic case: the Funerary World in Antiquity
- Recommended course or age:1st ESO
- Duration: 1 hour
- Description: Didactic workshop held in the school based on funerary customs of different civilizations and Antiquity. With the support of a PowerPoint presentation and different replicas of archaeological pieces from the Museum, students are taught the different notions and funerary rituals of prehistoric, Iberian and Roman civilizations.
- Ethnographic workshop: Cave Houses of the Wall
- Recommended course or age: 3rd ESO (Recommended branch of Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes (excluding transfers)
- Description: Torkshop held in the cave-houses of the castle wall, it is intended to work the relationship of humans with the environment around them and their adaptation to it. Therefore, it will focus on the most recent human evolution of our society, and the way of life and customs prior to industrialization.
- Archaeological Workshop: Coins in Rome
- Recommended course or age: 3rd and 4th ESO (Recommended branch of Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Duration: 1 hour y 30 minutes
- Description: Workshop held in the school based on the use and manufacture of coins by Roman civilization. The workshop consists of three parts: the first, a brief exposition supported by a PowerPoint on the history of the Roman coin and its uses; a second part in which a basic description of various replicas of coins will be made in groups; and finally, participants will be invited to make their own coin, on a cylindrical support of hard clay, following the guidelines and knowledge learned in the workshop.
A LEVELS
- Didactic Suitcase: Death in Rome
- Recommended course or age: 1st Bachillerato (Humanities and/or Latin and Greek students), optionally to 4th ESO of the branch of Humanities and Social Sciences.
- Duration: 1 hour
- Description: Didactic workshop in the school based on the funerary customs of Ancient Rome. With the support of a PowerPoint presentation and various replicas of archaeological pieces from the Museum, students are taught the notions and funerary rituals of Roman civilization through time.
- Petrer in the Spanish Civil War
- Recommended course or age: 1st Batxillerat (Humanities and/or Social Sciences), optionally to 4º ESO of the branch of Humanities and Social Sciencies.
- Duration: 1 hour y 30 minutes
- Description: Guided visit to different parts of the historical centre where there are vestiges of the Civil War. By means of the explanations of a specialized guide of the museum, in each of the parades we dismantle the different aspects of the daily life of a population of guarding during the conflict: the one for the civils to the bombardments, the industry of war, etc. Also, during the explanations, different complementary aspects will be added to the classroom curriculum, with a special focus on the end of the Civil War, where our population will have a prominent role as a refugee from the last government of the Second Republic to El Poblet.
SECONDARY AND A LEVELS
- Get to Know Villa Petraria - Petrer's Roman Past
- Recommended course or age: from 1st ESO to Bachillerato, mainly for the Humanities and Social Sciences branch.
- Duration: 45 minutes (excluding transfers)
- Description: Guided visit to different points in the historical centre of Petrer where archaeological remains of the Roman villa of Villa Petraria have been found. In this way, in each of the stops, we will discover the keys to the Roman model of life and the functions of a villa in Roman society. Finally, we will visit the Dámaso Navarro Museum to see the Roman remains associated with the villa, such as the ceramic furnace and the Roman mosaic.
"Children's education"
"Museum visit primary"
