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Mapping and Excavating a Jello Mold

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars simulate how archaeologists excavate sites by "searching" their own site in the form of a Jello mold. They use a grid to map the objects in the Jello mold as well as looking at three layers of Jello to understand...
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Tag It and Bag It: Archeology Lab Lesson

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders practice analyzing, collecting and categorizing artifacts. Using charts, they organize and interpret information about the artifacts they classified. They work together to create a graph to represent class totals and...
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Stratigraphy and Cross-Dating

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students interpret archaeological strata using the law of superposition. They apply cross-dating to determine the age of other artifacts.
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Sculptural Statistics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars conduct an experiment to determine the frequency of pulling various parts of an ancient Greek sculpture out of a hat.