Early elementary aged visitors can make guesses about what an object they find is, as well as speculate about an object's function and relate it to common objects the may have in their house.

For objects that remain incomplete once reconstructed, early elementary aged visitors can hypothesize about how the original 'artifacts' may have been broken and why might some pieces of an object may still be missing despite a thorough excavation of the dig site.

Early elementary-schoolers may be able to create drawings on the grid paper that are of the right scale and orientation.

They can also speculate about why archeologists use maps, grids and scale models when they conduct an excavation.

Early elementary aged visitors can notice more minute differences between pieces of pottery than younger children might notice.

For example, they may notice that although two pottery pieces are red, they are still not from the same pot since they differ in size, design pattern, or perhaps even paint pattern (for example, perhaps one pottery piece has a few sections of speckled white spots while the other does not).

Early elementary aged visitors can generally use both the tape measure and ruler effectively to measure the size of artifacts. They can also recognize the differences in units (centimeters vs. inches, for example) on different kinds of tape measures or rulers.

Early Elementary aged visitors can use a magnifying glass, with little to no assistance, to closely observe the small details of each artifact they have discovered.