Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Treasures From the Past



Everyone excitedly rushed out of the bus, as the teachers called us to form strait class orderly lines. We walked inside, and set our daypacks in the cafeteria and headed into the museum ready for the first adventure of this trip.
There were archways for every time period. The first archway we entered was The Stone Age. We watched a short video, and wrote a fact about what we saw. They hunted animals with spears, even fish. At that time, people used stones to make weapons, tools, pottery, and jewelry. We saw mini models of their houses, and the way they lived.
The next arch was the Bronze Age. As we entered we could see pretty much the same thing as the Stone Age. The main highlight of this time period is that they discovered a type of metal called bronze. This led to stronger weapons and tools. They made fishhooks, and mostly ate fish. New types of jewels were discovered to make better jewelry. The biggest change was that they started to trade.
Walking into the Iron Age we spotted development of houses, and burials. We sat down and watched another video. They discovered new ways of steering animals ex. For horses they made rains.
We traveled farther into time and ended up in Greater Arabia, when they got glass from the Mediterranean, and when trading was still in process.

By Aya, Georgia, and Brinda

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