Teaching With Artefacts

Artefacts are enjoyable because children can handle them, providing direct stimulus to the senses and provoking discussion, deduction and questioning. Artefacts can help develop a sense of commonality with others in very different places by:

• Arousing interest to start a topic or activity.
• Giving relevance to the topic being followed.
• Deepening a child's understanding.
• Developing sensitivity.

LGEC members can borrow Artefacts from our Resource Centre. For further information, see the following documents:

• Using LGEC Artefacts Collections - General Information
• List of Artefact Collections currently available for loan