What the Kids Say
Miracles to Medicine has reached out to 2,500 children
‘I enjoyed having to find out what is wrong with the person’
‘I learned that they used plants as medicine!'
‘I learned about some popular cures in history, I enjoyed learning about the box of artefacts'
'I learned when you broke your arm if it was too bad they chopped it off'
‘I enjoyed learning stuff about the middle ages!'
‘I enjoyed the task where you have to find out what is wrong with the person.’
'My favourite part was learning about the medicines they used.’
and I found it amazing that there were bones. Overall I really enjoyed it.’
Miracles to Medicine has reached out to 2,500 children in classrooms and workshops, and has also enabled over 100 families to take part in a real excavation, helping to investigate the monastic infirmary on Lindisfarne alongside professional archaeologists.
We hope our cross-sector approach will improve overall engagement in health sciences through practical archaeology based learning, creating more opportunities for audiences to interact with health-related research. The community excavation has created a touch point for blending public engagement with academic research, encouraging more people to participate as well a consider how bioarchaeology and health science research is embedded in our lives.
