Artifacts as Evidence - Time Team Investigation

This is an artifact handling lesson encouraging students to use objects as evidence about the past. Students ask questions in their groups with low and higher order question and question stems. Students should make inferences from the evidence and 'educated guesses'.You will need a selection of artifacts; they could be weird objects; coins; reproduction documents like ID cards etc. Mixed ability groups work well for an activity like this. The groups can give feedback together or the groups can use 'ambassadors' who then feedback to their own group.