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Kincaid Shelter Stratigraphy
Seventh graders illustrate how archeologists use stratigraphy to help determine environmental changes in a specific area since the Pleistocene Era, and to point out that these changes have affected the animals living in that area.
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Utah Archaeology
Students use Play-dough explore different types of fossils and examine how fossils are evidences of past life.
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Saving the Past for the Future
Students review web images to identify human impact on nature and site destruction.
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Oaxaca Archaeology
Young scholars acquire an understanding that archaeology is a field of scientific study of the life and culture of ancient civilizations by excavation and study of cities and artifacts.
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UMNH: Thinking About The Past
Fourth graders use a personal item to explain and share the importance of their past. They also connect this importance with reasons why all human past is important.
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Lost and Found
Young scholars explore the historical and modern-day significance of archeological artifacts. They research other important archeological discoveries throughout history and write articles based on their research.
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Looking Back to 1980
Students use clustering/mind mapping techniques to generate ideas, graphically represent inferences, organize their conclusions and write a report that presents conclusions the writer has reached, and facts substantiating those conclusions.