Stone Age day at Saffron Walden Museum

August 2017, Reception Year, age 5

We visited Saffron Walden Museum on a special Stone Age themed day. HB began outside, with a lesson in how to distinguish between tools from the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic.

looking at stone tools and ascertaining their age   looking at stone tools and ascertaining their age   looking at stone tools and ascertaining their age

Next we watched a flint knapping demonstration.

flint knapping demonstration   flint knapping demonstration   flint knapping demonstration

We then visited the museum's Ice Age exhibition and HB completed a Stone Age trail.

stone age trail     stone age trail

HB then 'dug up' a sabre-toothed cat. Finally there was a test to see whether HB could sort the stone age tools into the correct time order.

stone age trail     sorting stone tools test
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