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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Artifacts & Fiction Pair Finder

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Pair artifacts with appropriate literary texts, and find tips for using them together in the classroom by selecting a literary movement and a discipline with this handy tool.
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Bullock Texas State History Museum

Bullock Museum: Artifact Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
A database of artifacts and articles related to Texas and its history. The artifacts are in different museums, or you can restrict your search to the Bullock Museum. You can search by time period from BCE to the present day, and by type...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Artifacts and Fiction: Workshop in American Literature

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This workshop, which is divided into eight segments, teaches how to use primary source artifacts from a variety of genres to support the teaching and learning of specific pieces of literature. The genres include visual arts, political...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Artifacts From the Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
Yad Vashem has the largest collection of Holocaust resources than anywhere else in the world. Their main objective is preserving all the stories of this time period so it is not forgotten or repeated. They have broken down the Holocaust...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Analyzing Artifacts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn the steps in the 5-step process that historians use when they analyze an artifact as you investigate what you can learn from Native American and other items.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: What Artifacts Reveal About the Past

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This site provides a lesson plan to teach the importance of analyzing artifacts, past and present.
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University of Chicago

Oriental Institute: Clues From the Past: How to Read an Artifact [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A great lesson plan to help students read artifacts and relate them to people, places, and societies.
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Other

Silicon Valley Art Museum: China's Han Dynasty Artifacts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
See treasures from a Han dynasty tomb (206 BC to AD 24) exhibited at the Silicon Valley Art Museum. Delightful reproductions of ceramic and bronze vessels and figurines pepper the site. Informative notes discuss both the technology used...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Artifact & Analysis: Historical Interpretation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A companion to American history courses, Artifact & Analysis features historical artifacts and documents about consumerism and the nation expanding, teacher's guide, writing assignments, and essays.
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Birmingham Museums Trust (UK)

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: Ancient Greece:investigate Real Greek Artifacts

For Students 3rd - 8th
A short digital collection of Ancient Greek artifacts found in the Birmingham Museum. Additionally, find a timeline and activities to enhance study of the ancient civilization.
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University of California

University of California, Berkeley Art Museum: Han Dynasty Tomb Artifact

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about Han Dynasty culture through an examination of a tomb artifact created to be buried with a rich landowner.
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Jewish Museum

Jewish Museum: Understanding the Holocaust Through Art and Artifacts [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This curriculum guide gives lesson plans and information on art, artists, and artifacts of the Holocaust. There is an extensive bibliography and glossary.
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Other

University of Memphis: Egyptian Artifacts Exhibit

For Students 9th - 10th
A site from The University of Memphis with several examples of Egyptian artifacts, with detailed descriptions. Enlarge any of the photos with just a click!
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Coming Into America: Dating Artifacts 9 12 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate new discussions on the presence of humans in North America, and emulate the work of archeologists in dating artifacts at a dig site. Use clay to model how the radioactive isotope of carbon (C14) is used in dating organic...
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Other

Object of History: Guide to Doing History With Objects

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore the dimensions of America's rich history by taking a detailed look at objects from our past. Examine stories, important moments, and the evolution of the American people via primary documents, photos, and other artifacts.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Bearing Witness

For Students 9th - 10th
Artifacts are essential to preserve the memories of the Holocaust. As survivors age, these pictures, testimonies, and documents are the only remaining items to tell the story of the Holocaust. Peruse the artifacts of the Holocaust with...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: From Hope to Despair the Story of the Horonczyk Family

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the story of one family from prosperity to destruction. Read about each family member and view artifacts from their life such as ITS information cards, clothes, military papers, legal documents, certificates, pictures, and more.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Fighting for Freedom

For Students 9th - 10th
Many Jews served in the armed forces to fight the Nazi's alongside the Allied Forces. These artifacts such as medals, uniforms, weapons, and religious items tell their story.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Childhood Artifacts to Inspire a Narrative

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This site contains a book review of Knots in My Yo-yo String: the Autobiography of a Kid, which is a memoir by Jerry Spinelli. A suggested activity is included that asks students to bring in important mementos that the students will...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Using Artifacts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
View an engraving and two photographs from U.S. history. As you view these resources, think about what you can identify and interpret through the images, and what kinds of questions you might generate if you were using these images to...
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Birmingham Museums Trust (UK)

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: Investigate Real Egyptian Artifacts

For Students 3rd - 8th
A short list of artifacts dating back to Ancient Egypt with descriptions and images. Additionally, find links for activities, a timeline, and details of mummies to enhance study of the early civilization.
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Other

What's the Point? Identifying Flint Artifacts

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a site for anyone needing detailed information on Ohio Indian cultures, with emphasis on their arrowheads and how to identify the culture based on the appearance of the artifact. Advanced ELL level.
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Other

Iran Photo Album: Artifacts

For Students 9th - 10th
A listing of photographs of ancient artifacts from Iran including a photograph of a gold rhyton from the Achaemenid period.
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Other

Ocean Tracks: Fact or Artifact? Interpreting Patterns in Ocean Tracks Data [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Ever wonder where marine animals go? How fast they swim? How deep they dive? Electronic tagging has opened a new window into the world of the open ocean. Ocean Tracks gives you access to data collected by tags on real live migrating...

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