In this section you will learn how the story of what happened in country leads to the artefacts that form a site. You will also learn to build a site for learning purposes in your own country.
First listen to Uncle Al (click the play button) and do the drag and drop picture exercise below the way he tells you to.
Uncle Al's Story
What you are going to do here is build your own site
What I will do is give you a story about some people doing things, then you think about what tools and things they would need
That's the easy part. Then you wait around for about five or six hundred years and build what you think would be left behind
Think about the site that the story would create and select from a bunch of bits and pieces that can be dragged into the site area. The right sort of things will stay there, the stuff that just wouldn't be there will jump right back out
Ok this is the story. One day a family was camped on a river bank
One of the kids said hey I really feel like a seafood dinner and the missus said to this bloke get out there and get me and the kids some shell fish
The shellfish were on a sand bank in the middle of the river
So he has to get across the river, get the shellfish, bring them back
Then the woman cooks them up and every one has a big feed
Now this bloke has no tools so he has to start from scratch
He needs a boat to get across the river, an axe to make the boat, some stone to make the axe, some sandstone to grind the axe on, a basket to carry the shellfish, a knife to cut reeds to make the basket, stone to make the knife and a fire to cook the shellfish
He makes everything he needs and gets the tucker
Five hundred years later you come along and find the site
Ok now build that site
Build Your Own Site for Learning Purposes in Your Country
When you finish building the site the way Uncle Al tells you above, it's time to work out how to build a site in your country. You have to base it on a story so that you can develop real context the way Uncle Al did.
