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- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students act as archeologists to examine, describe and hypothesize about 'artifacts' they have been given for their archeological interpretation. They rely on the descriptions and hypotheses of other students to identify the 'artifacts' distributed th Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students examine Mayan art and culture. They help one another put together a puzzles to discover what Mayan culture was like. They view a film and discuss the ethics an archeologist must have when excavating a dig site. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students examine the structures and artifacts of Poverty Point in order to explain the cultural aspects of North American prehistoric people and the role of archeologists in preserving our past. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students study careers that involve animal care such as veterinarians, zookeepers and archeologists. They create a collage of animal drawings related to the careers. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students simulate what it would be like to be archeologists. They evaluate a quadrant area of a lost Roman treasure map. They generate their findings on the map into specific categorizes. Full Review »
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- 4th - 7th
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Students brainstorm a list of nocturnal and diurnal wild animals they see in their community and discuss how the animals would be different if they were living during the Ice Age. Using a handout, they discover how archeologists record their site findings and identify the zones used by them. They use the internet to search a Kincaid Shelter and use the animals they find there to solve a puzzle. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 8th
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Students review the job of an archeologist as a class. While viewing a PowerPoint presentation, they guess the use of the tool before the next slide is shown. They also discuss when the archeologist would use each of the twelve tools presented to them. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students have a hands-on approach with primary sources or replica of primay sources, and it demands that they play the part of an archeologist to figure out the time period, place and type of settlement from a time capsule from the past. They identify the different settlements, and make statements about the similarities and differences of the Thirteen Colonies and how that led to the writing of the Articles of Confederation and then the United States Constitution. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 6th
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Students discover what a paleontologist is and how he/she digs up fossils. Students become familiar with famous paleontologists and archeologists. They become aware of the similarities between paleontologists and archeologists. Also, students use the internet (CareerZone) to explore about careers, such as paleontologists and archeologists. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students act as historical archeologists and use their analytical skills to deduce, from lists of items related to historic figures, accurate details about the lives of those people. Full Review »
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