Next Monday (7th) I will be working with my first group of youngsters on-site at the experimental archaeology project I have joined as a volunteer.
They will be a bunch of 8 year olds yikes, and I'll probably have a group of 6 or so for an hour at a time. My plan is to do a journey back in time through the story of fire, starting with the combustion triangle, how modern methods work (lighter), then getting them to gather and build the materials they need for a basic teepee.
As they are a very young lot, the plan is to let them succeed, so I'll be using dry cotton wool/sawdust/hay, along with a firesteel and then flint and charcloth.
For those of you that have done this kind of thing with kids before, have you any extra advice/tips/tricks which engage your audience? The emphasis is very much going to be on "See it then do it".
Thanks in hopeful advance.
They will be a bunch of 8 year olds yikes, and I'll probably have a group of 6 or so for an hour at a time. My plan is to do a journey back in time through the story of fire, starting with the combustion triangle, how modern methods work (lighter), then getting them to gather and build the materials they need for a basic teepee.
As they are a very young lot, the plan is to let them succeed, so I'll be using dry cotton wool/sawdust/hay, along with a firesteel and then flint and charcloth.
For those of you that have done this kind of thing with kids before, have you any extra advice/tips/tricks which engage your audience? The emphasis is very much going to be on "See it then do it".
Thanks in hopeful advance.
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