Today we took the campers to Five Forks, where the park is getting ready to put in a new parking spot. According to federal law before the parking spaces can be made the area must be surveyed for archaeological significance. The kids had a chance to use the metal detectors, dig, and screen the soil. It was hot and the ground was hard but the kids loved finding things in the ground. Nearly everything they found was not nearly old enough to be historically significant or to relate to the Civil War. However, a few things from the early 1900's came out of the ground (mostly just bits of rusty barbed wire or nails), and the kids were allowed to keep these if they wanted. They all found some rusted piece of metal to take home and show their parents.
By the time we got back the other activity I had planned, which involved the kids taking pictures with the digital cameras, was rushed and didn't come off nearly as successful as I'd wanted it to. Perhaps I'll get a chance to try the activity again another week.
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