Name: Teaching the Stone Age
Start: 2024-07-09T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-07-09T14:00:00+01:00
Location: Lunt Meadows

This session aims to empower primary educators to teach the Stone Age, a much misunderstood and fascinating part of the history curriculum.
About this Event

Designed and delivered in partnership with Lancashire Wildlife Trust and lecturers from the Dept. of History and Archaeology at University of Chester, this session aims to empower primary educators to teach the Stone Age, a much misunderstood and extremely fascinating part of the history curriculum.

By the end of the session, teachers will have a greater understanding of the middle Stone Age period and be equipped with practical activities and interactive exercises to present the topic to children. Teachers will also gain knowledge about Lunt Meadows and the 9000-year-old Stone Age settlements and artefacts discovered on the reserve.

This training will take place outdoors, in the education area at Lunt Meadow’s Nature Reserve, but the activities can be adapted to work indoors or outdoors. We will meet in the car park at 11am promptly. Please bring a packed lunch and a cup/mug. Refreshments will be provided and campfire snacks.

Please wear appropriate footwear (walking boots are recommended) and dress for the weather.

This event is part of Lunt Meadow’s Presenting Mesolithic and Modern Life Project, made possible with the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The Presenting Mesolithic and Modern Life Project aims give visitors and the extended community an understanding of how humans have interacted with the landscape over thousands of years, how landscape changes affect human lives and how these choices influence our future. It is a 5-year long partnership between Lancashire Wildlife Trust, the Museum of Liverpool, the Dept. of History and Archaeology, University of Chester, and Soroptimist International Crosby.