Stone Age Experience Day Workshop
Classroom Adventures
In our Stone Age Experience Day, travel back 5,000 years to the Neolithic Stone Age.The group can be split into tribes (optional) and score points throughout the day. Can you work together for your tribe's survival?
You will meet "Marek", a hunter, who will guide you through the dangers and skills needed to get through the day.
Travel back in time to understand the context of the Stone Age compared to modern day. Then learn about how we find out about the past, about archaeology and about where humans come from through evolution, putting the parts of the puzzle together as we go.
See and hold replica tools and weapons from stone tipped arrows to antlers and even a torch.
Can you survive the hunt, and will foraging for food feed your tribe, or cost you your life?
In a wonderful blend of activities, games and information our Stone Age Experience Day is perfect for children of all ages to engage with this topic!
Where we travel to
We can visit your school in: East Midlands, West Midlands, London & South East, East of England, South West
What activities are available during this school workshop?
Our Stone Age Experience Day provides a wide range of activities and learning to maximise children's engagement with this topic, including:
- Time travel (understand the context and scale of time between now and then).
- Our archaeologist game (can children be the first to make a discovery?)
- Visual displays (we're not just talking at the children, we're showing them)
- Props and replicas (see weapons and tools, and how they were used, and get to hold some too)
- Team building (can children work together in various games and activities throughout the day?)
- Time travel (understand the context and scale of time between now and then).
- Our archaeologist game (can children be the first to make a discovery?)
- Visual displays (we're not just talking at the children, we're showing them)
- Props and replicas (see weapons and tools, and how they were used, and get to hold some too)
- Team building (can children work together in various games and activities throughout the day?)
Which curriculum topics do we cater for?
Prehistory Workshop Click to expand
Stone Age
In our Stone Age Experience Day children will learn about the world of the Neolithic, the New Stone Age, and humanity's longest age. They will meet a hunter and learn about hunting and gathering. Children will see firsthand the "tools of the trade" from flint shards to stone tipped arrows, to handheld axes and hunting spears.
We will learn about how we got here through evolution and meet a few friendly faces along the way like Lucy the Australopithecus afarensis, homo neanderthalensis and of course us, the homo sapiens (or homo sapiens sapiens if you prefer)!
Children will have to work together to build and protect their community and even get to have a go at building one of the most ambitious building projects in the stone age: Stone Henge!
Archaeology Workshop
In our Stone Age Experience Day pupils learn just how we find out about the past. Because the Stone-Age is pre-history (before written record) all of what we know is down to Archaeologists and Scientists. Children will get a brief overview of this to build the context of how and what we know about life 5,000 years ago.
Team Building Workshop
Life was tough in the Stone Age and if you wanted to survive then being able to work as a team was paramount.
We have filled our Stone Age Experience Day with games and activities to keep both the fun and the energy high throughout the day. Most of these require children to work together in order to achieve the objective.
What size groups do we cater for?
Our Stone Age Experience Day is aimed at mainstream schools from 1 - 4 form entry (30 - 120 children).
We can cater to pretty much any size group. We just need a clear hall with enough space for all of the children, us and our equipment, and enough room to move around with the activities.
We can cater to pretty much any size group. We just need a clear hall with enough space for all of the children, us and our equipment, and enough room to move around with the activities.
Access for visitors with disabilities
Our days are aimed to be fun and engaging for all.
Our only requirement is that you/your organisation provide the relevant staffing and equipment needed to facilitate any individual's participation.
Our only requirement is that you/your organisation provide the relevant staffing and equipment needed to facilitate any individual's participation.
Visitors with Special Educational Needs (SEN)
Our days are aimed to be fun and engaging for all.
Our only requirement is that you/your organisation provide the relevant staffing and equipment needed to facilitate any individual's participation.
You must also be aware that we will be bringing various props and equipment with us that are integral to the content of the day. Many of these can cause injury if used incorrectly. Therefore, safety and safeguarding is of upmost concern and we may not be able to deliver a day if behaviour is dangerous or staffing levels are insufficient.
Anything else?
In order to deliver our exciting Stone Age Experience Day, we simply require the following:
- secure onsite parking (either in a car park or on a playground)
- a clear hall with two trestle tables
- sufficient staffing to be with the children for the duration of the day
- secure onsite parking (either in a car park or on a playground)
- a clear hall with two trestle tables
- sufficient staffing to be with the children for the duration of the day
Who are Classroom Adventures?
Classroom Adventures has been providing educational experiences and events since 2016. Its members have varied backgrounds and interests including: organ building, biomedical science, furniture making, vaccine development, historical re-enactment, Morris dancing and more...
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