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Know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; characteristic features of past non-European societies. Prepare and cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes using a range of cooking techniques. Demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To learn about the bronze-casting process.
• To make jelly, ice or chocolate casts in their moulds.
• To make predictions about the reversibility of their casts.

Children will:

• Explain how bronze vessels were made in the Shang period.
• Predict whether changes of state are reversible.
• Follow instructions to make jelly, ice lollies or chocolate.

• How to remove the moulds from the blanks
• How to cast using water, jelly and chocolate
• How to create a museum display

• Access to a kitchen, hob, freezer, fridge
• Cold and warm water, jelly, squash, cooking chocolate
• Plastic film
• Lolly sticks

Someone casting bronze - YouTube clip
Creating a class museum from museums.ox.ac.uk