Travelling Education Kits
How to Make Stone Tools
Through a series of hands-on exercises, students learn how Ontario's First Peoples made tools such as hunting points, chopping tools and scrapers. Other exercises include: hafting or fastening points to sticks, and examining the technique of percussion flaking.
Objects: 9 artifacts, string and rubber socket, tape cassette, activity cards, student activity booklets and teacher's notes. (Jr/Int)
Tools
Students examine authentic tools used by Ontario's First Peoples. Objects such as an adze, bone awl, spear points, and a clay effigy pipe are used to construct a picture of what Ontario life was like thousands of years ago.
Objects: 12 ROM artifacts, publication "Ontario Prehistory", student activity booklet and teacher's notes. (Jr/Int)
Cases are billingual and weigh approximately 10 lbs unless otherwise indicated.
How to Reach Us
Community Programs
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 2C6
Tel: 416.586.5681
Fax: 416.586.5832
E-mail: schoolc@rom.on.ca
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