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- 6th - 12th
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Students read and discuss "When the Games Began: Olympic Archaeology," examining the significance of the first Olympic Games in Greece. They research and reenact scenes from these Games and reflect on the Games' original importance. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students develop an ability to assemble clues and decipher various indicators concerning one person's life and family background. They develop and understanding of the way in which present day archaeologists dig for the unlocking of our past. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students discuss why it is important to explore the past. They make their own time capsule out of a shoebox and then try to figure out whose box belongs to each classmate. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students interview a Native American and write a newspaper article or letter that expresses concern about robbing archaeological sites. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students pose as archaeologists, famous for their scholarly excavations, writing, and lectures about ancient cultures and are invited back to the 20thy century from the year 3000 to explore an archaeological sit, their classroom. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students examine anthropology and archaeology by listening to articles read aloud about recent archeaological finds in order to discuss how these findings reveal things about ancient humans. Students then work in groups to research an ancient culture and create an excavation site containing artifacts from that culture. Full Review »
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- 9th - 11th
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Students describe types of evidence and methods of investigation by which scholars have reconstructed the early history of domestication, agricultural settlement, and cultural development. They research an archaeological dig site and write fictional journal entries from the point of view of an archaeologist describing a significant find in the site they researched. Full Review »
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- 11th - 12th
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Students plan, write, and edit a fictitious archaeological report describing the excavation of a late 20th-century site. They should focus on a certain location and objects. They examine the location and objects and imagine how they might be interpreted from a perspective 1,000 years in the future. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students demonstrate the goals and methods of archaeology and write a report of an archaeological dig at a site associated with a specific culture. They explore the science of archaeology and how it contributes to the understanding of humanity. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students examine archaeological and Biblical evidence about the fortifications of ancient Jerusalem. Students examine what methods David may have used to conquer Jerusalem. Students prepare a summary of conclusions about David's conquest. Students narrate the summary as if for a documentary. Full Review »
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