Prehistory

Suitable for KS2

Explore how life changed for people as they moved from hunter-gatherers to settled farmers. In this interactive and engaging session pupils investigate, question and compare two lifestyles in our prehistoric past, with artefacts, art and role-play bringing history to life.

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Activities include:

Making individual ceramic pots based on Neolithic designs and techniques.
Handling and analysing real objects to reach conclusions about why some evidence survives and other evidence does not.
‘Hunting and Gathering’ team challenges, which encourage pupils to consider how different life was in Mesolithic Suffolk.

Minimum and maximum group sizes: 20 to 60 pupils.

Adult:Pupil ratio: 1:6

Duration: 240 minutes, 10am-2pm with lunch break.

A minimum charge may apply. Prices are valid until 31st March 2022.

Ipswich Museum

Full day session

£4.30 per child (Ipswich Borough schools)
£4.80 per child (non Borough school)

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