Things to do in the summer holidays!
Of course, it’s that time of year when parents, who may be teachers and vice versa, are looking for things to do with bored, restless and...
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Nancy Detchon
Jun 15, 2015
Tools and evolution – worth revisiting.
Back in January BBC Radio 4’s History of Ideas broadcast a piece by Dr Matt Pope of University College London in which he explored the...
Nancy Detchon
May 27, 2015
What do archaeologists actually do? Refitting or piecing together the past .
Here’s the second in our occasional series of what archaeologists actually do, beyond excavating. You might want to look at What do...
Nancy Detchon
Apr 22, 2015
Were our ancestors cannibals?
The subject of cannibalism in prehistory is one that has rumbled on in archaeological circles for quite some time and it has recently...
Nancy Detchon
Apr 21, 2015
The Palaeolithic – Part 3: the things people made and used
Archaeologists are, of course, very interested in the things that people in the past made, used and eventually disposed of. We have just...
Nancy Detchon
Mar 26, 2015
KS2 teachers, what can you find out about . . . the Palaeolithic?
You might think that finding information on the archaeology of the Palaeolithic of the area you live and work in might be difficult....
Nancy Detchon
Mar 9, 2015
The Palaeolithic – Part 2: The Environment
As you might well imagine, over the course of almost a million years the environment in what we now call Britain has changed...
Nancy Detchon
Mar 2, 2015
The Promised Palaeololithic – Part 1!
So, as promised in our last post about teaching prehistory in KS2, here we go into more detail about the Palaeolithic – just what you’ve...
Nancy Detchon
Feb 25, 2015
Art, Cave Art and Prehistory: A Study day.
The day has something for everyone who wants to know more about art in prehistory. There are short talks from 6 leading experts in the...
Nancy Detchon
Feb 19, 2015
Teaching the Stone Age to Iron Age – where to begin?
Teaching ‘Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age’ is now required as part of KS2 History curriculum in England. For many...
Nancy Detchon
Jan 19, 2015
Stone Age to Iron Age in Cheshire
What a wonderful day we had in Cheshire! Armed with our trenches, tools and artefacts, Dr Ian Parker Heath (trusty archaeologist husband...
Nancy Detchon
Jan 18, 2015
Teaching ‘changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age’
At the end of my prehistoric archaeology workshops, teachers often say to me that they have learned as much as the children have. Of...
Nancy Detchon
Jan 17, 2015
Prehistoric Levenshulme!
After delivering a workshop covering the Stone Age to Iron Age to Y4s at St Andrews CE Primary School in Levenshulme in October, the...
Nancy Detchon
Nov 30, 2014
Back to the Stone Age for Ormskirk!
Y3s at Aughton St Michaels CE Primary School in Ormskirk became archaeologists for the morning when they excavated artefacts from the...
Nancy Detchon
Nov 19, 2014
Archaeology Day at Garstang
I love delivering Archaeology Days, because Archaeology Days allow time for me to really develop children’s interest and enable them to...
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