Year 7 History: Cookie Excavation

Year 7 classes have been studying the work of archaeologists in History this term. In order to gain a practical insight into their work, students were engaged in a cookie excavation activity. 

Student Reflections

In the Cookie Excavation session in our history class, we were able to experience what being an archaeologist is like. It was a very enjoyable time, and all we needed was a cartesian plane to plot our cookie (which is also our site in this case), a cookie, and also a toothpick which is our tool to dig up the choc chips in our site. Our class got 3 cookies each, 1 for excavating, and 2 for eating. The activity was really entertaining, considering that this was a history lesson!  (Joanne)

Today in History class we learnt about archaeologists and pretended to be one. We did a super exciting activity where we each got a cookie and used two toothpicks and started to use that to take out the choc chips! The aim was to try not to break the cookie. We used a cartesian plane graph to plot the spots where we got out the choc chips, I got 19 choc chips (which is also called an artifact) and of course at the end we ate it all up! The hardest bit was to try and not eat the cookie. It was a very educational, fun and tasty experience!  (Audrey)

Ms Rosalyn O’Halloran, HSIE Teacher