Its maps and local places change to show each school's own area: its streets, hills, castles and old workplaces. Pick your school to see the lesson as your class would.
Its maps, and the words in yellow, are that school's own local places.
Choose another schoolLook at this old headstone on the board. What do you notice? What do you wonder?
Our question for today is what the oldest writing near our school tells us about the people of this place, and what it cannot tell us.
The nearest stones to our school are at the graveyard, memorial or dated stone nearest our school.
Today we read real stones: at the graveyard, memorial or dated stone nearest our school if we walk there, or the headstone on the board if we stay in.
On the stones sheet, record what is actually carved:
Write only what you can really read. One clear name and one clear date is enough if the letters are hard. Do not rub the stone and do not touch the carving. Sketch the oldest piece of writing you find.
Back in class: what is the oldest date we read today, and what is the newest?
Where does each date belong on the line? How many years ago was our oldest stone?
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