Interactive-experimental workshops for kids and teenagers

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Workshop activity is essential to stimulate - in kids and teenagers - the natural mechanisms of discovery and experimentation of techniques and knowledges which could theoretically remain abstract and incomprehensible realities.
Game, direct handling of materials, attempts and failures play a key role in the activation of personal processes of reprocessing the conquers of the past as well as the knowledges necessary to their fulfilment.
For those classes willing to participate to a workshop in the same day of activity of the Museum, we identified some meaningful phases, which can be completed in 1-2 hours.

Earth, Water, Fire and wind. Prehistoric ceramics…

✶ How difficult is to work clay? ✶ How long and how many work phases does it take? ✶ How do we get marks? ✶ What is the difference between graffiti and engraving? ✶ What are plastic decorations? Let's try and create something...
In this workshop kids and teenagers try the different clay working techniques, learning about the different working times and stages, the different decoration typologies and styles. Handling clay, they can test the many errors and failures which preceded the technical-artistic attainment of the most ancient craft ever invented by mankind.

Signs and drawings. One-time artists…

✶ Which animals are represented on grottoes' walls? ✶ What do the abstract drawings in Deers' Grotto mean? ✶ What did mankind use to leave its artistic marks? ✶ Let's try and reproduce one drawing of Deers' Grotto
The complex world of prehistoric art acquires new perspectives and a new charm if the kid can personally and directly test the different styles and representative typologies, reproducing some of these.

Ornaments and tools in prehistory

✶ When did mankind discover beauty and “make up”? ✶ Which were the body ornaments? ✶ Why this? Why don't we try..?
The workshop offers an approach to the prehistoric daily life , to understand the difficulties existing in those things that today we take for granted and ordinary. The most important observation arising from this workshop is about the loss of many manual skills inherited by the prehistoric man, meant as the loss of a legacy of experiences held pointless in this IT age.

Living stones

✶ Are Salento's stones all the same? ✶ What is a calcareous stone? ✶ How do we identify one? ✶ What is sedimentation? ✶ Why are there shells and fish fossils? Let's give a closer look....
The workshop activity develops in experiments and recognition tests by means of samples of the most common Salento's rocks, aimed at understanding the concepts of stratigraphy and sedimentation, as well as examining the different nature and physical composition of rocks characterising the territory.

Fruition conditions for the School: Mandatory booking.
Duration: min. 2.00 hours
Target: 3rd - 5th class of Primary School – Junior High School.

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