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TIME TRAVEL

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What are the origins of today's technology? This course spans a couple of days and aims to children a background to and an appreciation of . Using time-travel machine developed by Ollie, we travel back 10000 years. We begin our exploration as a group of hunted homo sapiens on many predators menus, having been stripped of all the technologies that make things so easy nowadays.
Throughout the adventure forward to the present, we encounter and develop machinery and processes which help us, from water filtration, making wooden and clay pots, lighting friction fires and cooking on them, creating felt and spinning wool, music, building simple wattle and dorb huts, making and using ploughs and farming.
As we move towards the modern age we discover electomagnetic induction- the princial behind electricity generation, allowing us to make coal and hydroelectic power stations.






This course can be enjoyed as a field trip or over the course of a couple of weeks. Reccommeneded age is above 7..
Picture: A cave painting made in preparation for our hunting expedition to catch the fearsome cardboard bear.

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