Stonehenge Activities

Children in the classroom World Heritage Site

• What it means to be a World Heritage Site
• Presentation on Stonehenge and surrounding monuments
• World Heritage Site game – placing the sites on a world map
• Research on World Heritage Sites in Bolivia

Archaeology

• Sketching of the monuments What is archaeology about?
• Rubbish game – find out about the past from what is left behind
• Skeleton game – learning about the survival of evidence
• Chronology activity – going back in time to prehistory
• Sorting activity – what is worth keeping from the past and why
• Life in the Bronze Age - cooking, clothes, burial mounds

Children's Exhibition Site Visit

• Role play as Bronze Age people visiting the prehistoric monuments at Stonehenge
• Meeting and questioning a Bronze Age pilgrim
• Bronze Age feast – prehistoric picnic prepared by the pupils
• Procession up the Stonehenge Avenue
• Role play as Unesco officials inspecting the visitor facilities
• Sketching of the monuments

After the visit

• Presentation of inspectors’ reports
• Competition to design new visitor centre
• Newspaper article about Stonehenge World Heritage Site
• Preparation of exhibition

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