Iron Age Celts
This is a great interactive site for all ages. It’s like playing a game. Visit Dionn in an ancient Bronze Age hill fort and see who he meets when he goes to fetch water from the river Seine. There are endless things to do on this site, take a Celtic quiz, create a Celtic cartoon, build a hill fort, design a torque, hear a severed head sing, and much more.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/celts/
BBC Ancient History-Pre History
An interactive site for teens to adults. Click on Life In An Iron Age Village to read what day to day life was like over 2000 years ago. Click on Iron Age task for great photos and a brief descriptions of forging, curing animal skins, charcoal making, and smelting iron. See a short online film, Life In the Iron Age, on how archeologists piece together their findings to tell how the ancients lived. Click on Visit an Iron Age Village, to make a fire, bake bread, and weave cloth in the old ways. Click on How To Build An Iron Age Round House and watch a step-by-step reconstruction. Play Hunt the Ancestor game, you are an archeologist looking for ancient iron age sites, time is running out, you have a limited budget, and the developers want to move in.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/prehistory/
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“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. “--Ray Bradbury
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