The perfect history-economics crossover if your pupils are exploring a Stone Age topic: get them into character as Palaeolithic cave-people with this bartering activity!
There’s a reason humans invented money, and this activity will quickly show how much more of a headache the alternative is!
- Get pupils into groups of 6
- Tell them they’re going to become a mini ‘tribe’ of stone age cave people (sing-syllable caveman/cavewoman names optional!)
- Assign each group member a number (1-6)
- Set up the scenario: ‘you have the things shown at the top of your card. Your aim is to trade these for the things at the bottom of your card’
- Let the bartering begin! It shouldn’t be easily possible for all group members to get what they want, but it does happen sometimes!
- Finish with a discussion - what was difficult about this task? Why do you think money was eventually invented?
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