Journal Entry
Today in keeping with the educational and public outreach mission of PolarTREC I spent the day as a guide at the **Kierikki Stone Age Center** in Yli-Ii.
The fox fur was surprisingly light, warm and comfortable
This involved dressing up as a stone age person and helping Finnish 5th graders make pendants out of slate. It takes about half an hour of drilling with a sharp piece of quartz to make the hole in the slate. You can also grind the slate piece on a slab of rock to shape it if you want.
They liked making stone beads, but they liked dropping hot rocks into water even more perhaps
Don't worry, the deer is not real
We also boiled water by dropping heated rocks into it and did a little target practice with a bow and arrow.
A slate pendant
It was a lot of fun! They have four large groups coming tomorrow, so I’m going to do it again.