What’s Your Theory…?
At the National Geographic Museum we offer a variety of educational options to make your visit more hands on.
One of these activities is out archaeology backpack.
When entering the Anglo-Saxon Hoard exhibit children are encouraged to put on their explorers hats and accept the mission of exploration and discovery.
Throughout their mission children are encouraged to brainstorm why they believed the Hoard was buried.
Here are this week’s winners:
“Because their leaders died and were giving up their Gold and sending it to him and the spirits.”
Name: Samantha
Age: 8
“I think it was buried for safekeeping, it was not for underground so easy to dig up. They put it there so that they could come and get it later, but that it would be hidden from others. I think whoever buried it paid a team of men to help. They all probably worked for a long time to get it all buried in that field that nobody would suspect.”
Name: Helen, Stephanie, Susanna, and Leanna
Ages: 6, 10, 11, 12
“They thought it was the end of the world (apocalyptic) fear and buried it.”
Name: John George H.
Age: 10
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