24th September 2014, 01:04 PM
Dirty Boy Wrote:Hi everyone!
Have recently left the world of archaeology to train to become a primary school teacher!
I'm looking to run a number of archaeology classes and was looking for some advice from you learned chaps and chappesses
1. Lots of children regularly ask 'How did did it end up becoming buried?' How would you answer that one, especially out in the fields?
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I'm not sure of the limits of your kids understanding, but you could take them to beamish and show them the kitchen midden (if they have one) and the pig treading in/spreading stuff around. Explain how rubbish goes from the kitchen, to midden to being spread on fields and/or filling up any hole thats around.
Or you could get them to look around now and spot any rubbish kicking around. Then explain that some of that rubbish will end up in any open hole in the ground.