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Abstract
A historic-didactic study is presented that examines aspects of historical consciousness among 11-year-old school children who have participated in cultural environment education projects. A short description of the projects and an analysis of the results is followed by a concluding section with reflections on archaeology, and meetings with school children in the course of contract archaeological work. The results of the study show that, for the students, the past is not about then, it is about now. It is claimed that this demands a shift in focus for public archaeology within cultural environment education projects: from stories about the past told in the present to stories about the present referring to the past.