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Museum Box is another great site from the wonderful people at E2BN. It allows you to put a number of items into a box to described your life. What would you include? What do you think would be included if you were a Victorian Servant or Queen Elizabeth I. If you lived during the English Civil War, what items would you include to make a case for, or against, the parliamentarians? And what if you were an abolitionist and wanted to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary, how would you create your evidence?

So what does Museum Box do?
Museum Box provides the tools for you to do just this. It allows you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view the museum boxes submitted by other people and comment on the contents.

I reckon it will work well as a stimulus for Literacy lessons too!

Everybody Writes offers classroom teachers innovative ideas and practical resources to get primary pupils excited about writing.

The Everybody Writes approach is about exploring writing beyond the classroom and taking it into the playground, and even communities. Everybody Writes encourages schools to try out new and interesting ways of initiating writing and to offer their young people a real audience for their writing.

Everybody Writes is a project run in partnership by Booktrust and The National Literacy Trust and funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).