Explore: Prehistory - Stone Age

Explore tools and weapons made form flint, stone and wood, used by people during the Stone Age.

Borrow this Explore Loan Box to spark the imagination of your students with a hands-on experience of touching and exploring real and replica objects from The Box.

Our boxes are themed to explore curriculum and topic subjects, to develop your students’ enquiry skills, and to enhance their independent learning by providing new experiences that they'll never forget.

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Key Stages:: Key Stage 1,; Key Stage 2

Curricula:: History,; Geography,; Local Area Study

Topics:: Pre-History,; Stone Age

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Price	£20 per week
Length of hire	Up to half a term

School visits

Prehistory: The Bronze Age at Whitehorse Hill

Witness your students become archaeologists, discovering the remarkable Bronze Age burial at Whitehorse Hill on Dartmoor. What can the uncovered artefacts tell us about people 4,000 years ago?

Plymouth’s Polar Explorers

Discover the adventures of Plymouth's famous polar explorer - Captain Robert Scott. Students will learn what it takes to lead an Antarctic expedition then and now!

Climate Action: Plymouth’s Marine Citizens

In this inspiring session your students will discover how climate change is effecting Plymouth's National Marine Park. Exploring how the marine citizens of Plymouth are rising to the challenges of climate change through science, engineering and activism.

Learning Resouces

Prehistory: Whitehorse Hill Image Bank

Explore detailed images of our collection of objects from Prehistory, found at Whitehorse Hill, and discover their history, using this Image Bank with your class.

Prehistory: Image Bank

Explore detailed images of our collection of objects from Prehistory, found in and near Plymouth, using this Image Bank with your class.

Prehistory

Explore Prehistory with your class, discovering how people lived in and near Plymouth during this period, using this history resource for Key Stage 2.

Mayflower 400: Legend and Legacy: Biographies Resource

Download this resource to use with your class, following the suggested activities to understand more about the passengers of the Mayflower.

Science: Marine Citizens of Plymouth's National Marine Park

Explore the effects of climate change on Plymouth Sound and how our inspiring 'Marine Citizens' are helping to care for and protect the National Marine Park.

Local history: Plymouth: City of the Future

Have you ever wondered why our city is built the way it is? Watch this animation with your students to explore the rebuilding of Plymouth after World War Two using archive photographs and film footage to bring to life the story of our city.

Museum Gallery Archive

Download the accompanying PDF resource to support your teaching.