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The presenter is asked to look at a range of toys from different periods and use their features to date them. Using the same method, an archaeologist shows how she dates artefacts from Ancient Egypt.

Students could examine a collection of familiar objects and put them in order of age, based on what they know about each item. For example, a modem would come after a telephone because we know the telephone was invented before the internet. Students could be asked to apply similar logic to a series of pictures of Egyptian artefacts. Their choices could be based on information provided about when various materials were used or invented. For example, a bronze knife could be featured in a picture and students could check their list of clues to learn that Egyptians didn’t use bronze until after 2000 BC.