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- 8th
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Students, in their study of artifact and lifeway pictures, observe and discuss past Native American lifeways and construct a timeline of four major culture periods in Native American history. Full Review »
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- 4th - 5th
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Students mend broken pottery to explain how archaeologists use the material past to explain the lives of past peoples. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students experience customs of first American families, explain how first American communities have changed, and connect first American customs to their own experience. Full Review »
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- 6th - 9th
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Students view a presentation on the ancient history of ceramics and gain insight into the early days of pottery making. They also reflect on how new technologies change the world. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students discuss peasant and aboriginal societies in modern times. They examine conflicts that societies, which still have feudal roots, face in changing to a modern social structure. They read information and organize it through various categories. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Students investigate how Native American containers changed over time and how the use of pottery changed their lifestyle. They create a pottery container. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 12th
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Students become experimental archaeologists using three methods of pottery making before the invention of the pottery wheel. Full Review »
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- 4th - 12th
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Students make and decorate a replica of a North Carolina coiled pot after summarizing why archaeologists study pottery and how Indian people of North Carolina made and used coiled pottery. Full Review »
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- 4th - 12th
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Students construct a timeline of four major culture periods in Native American history from studying archaeological evidence cards. Full Review »
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- 4th - 12th
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Students act as archaeologist and mend broken pottery to see what they can learn. Full Review »

