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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: If Stones Could Speak

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders will explore history and will learn that archaeologists, like detectives, work to piece together the past through investigation. Archaeological research provides us with stories of human history that help us understand the...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Math in Archaeology: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson shows students that math is part of the study of past civilizations. It is 4 of 5 in the series titled "Math in Archaeology."
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Lin and Don Donn

Lin and Don Donn: Archaeology Lessons

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site provides three suggestions for lessons to teach about archeology.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Science Safari: The First People

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Emulate the work of archaeologists in South Africa attempting to solve the riddles of human evolution by inferring a person's height from the length of one bone. Identify and communicate present-day rituals through ancient art techniques.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Archeology in the Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Two different leveled lessons allow students to become archeologists as they interpret material remains left behind by ancient people.
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PBS

Pbs: Historic Archaeology at Camp Nelson: Shedding Light on Undocumented Lives

For Students 9th - 10th
This video discusses how the analysis of food remains and personal items provides insight into the lives of the soldiers and the families of the black enlistees who trained during the Civil War at Camp Nelson in Jessamine County,...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Nhmu: Cultural Clutter Tales in the Trash

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders list three or more types of evidence of prehistoric cultures that encouraged archaeologists to investigate the marshes around the Great Salt Lake.
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PBS

Pbs: Nova: Ice Mummies: The Lost Inca Empire

For Students 9th - 10th
Explores what is known about the "Land of the Four Quarters" and the achievements of the Inca empire, their religious rituals, high altitude archaeology, and burial artifacts.
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PBS

Nova Online: A Gallery of Roman Mosaics

For Students 9th - 10th
The companion site that accompanies the NOVA program on salvaging Zeugma, an ancient Roman town on the banks of the Euphrates. It shows how archaeologists rescued many artifacts from a dam-building project.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Science Safari: City of Gold

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate the challenges facing archeologists when dealing with local cultures near dig sites, and consider the difficulty of remaining sensitive to the past yet still being able to learn from it.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Dead Men's Tales: Undisturbed Find

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Emulate the work of archeologists by creating and excavating an archeological find. Record the exact location and position of every dig artifact to maintain the coherency of the find.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: The Channel Island Fox

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the clues that archaeologists and other scientists use to piece together a picture of the past. Create models to compare and contrast the geology of two islands, and compare the characteristics of various types of fibers.
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BBC

Bbc Earth: Unplugged: Bone Collector Ben Garrod

For Students 9th - 10th
Ben Garrod, or the Bone Collector, takes us on a tour of his 'office', showing us some of the gruesome processes he has to go through to strip and clean skeletons, and the painstaking work he must to do recreate their natural forms. His...
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University of Chicago

The Oriental Institute Museum: Life in Ancient Mesopotamia [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th
The students will spend 4-5 days reading and discussing how archaeologists study artifacts, where the artifacts are found and how to investigate and interpret artifacts from their own lives. Videos and slides will be used to enhance...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Archeology: Can You Dig It?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this technology-based, interdisciplinary study, learners will discover how archeology helps us learn about our past. They will navigate the Internet to discover different methods archeologists use and gain an appreciation of the...
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University of Washington

University of Washington: Archaeology in China [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A unit that introduces students to archaeological finds as an historical source. It encourage students to think about the connections between burial practices, forms of social organization, and beliefs about the afterlife and presents...
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PBS

Nova: Pocahontas Revealed: The Science of Jamestown

For Students 9th - 10th
This website matches up contemporary reports and later historical information about Jamestown with recent archaeological evidence that confirms such information.
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University of Chicago

The Oriental Institute Museum: Life in Ancient Mesopotamia [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th
Because archaeologists cannot take home all the objects they unearth, they must make detailed, accurate drawings of their finds, so that these artifacts can be studied in the future.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Dragon Science: Time Travelers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the work of archeologists and anthropologists by building a 3-D clay representation of a human skull to look for clues to a person's physical form, ethnic origin, behavioral patterns, health history and social standing.
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PBS

Pbs: Nova: Secrets of the Lost Empire Easter Island

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the mysterious Easter Island as a team of archaeologists attempts to recreate the process used to construct the monolithic Moai statues.
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University of California

Digital Karnak: Experience Karnak

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides easily accessible, up-to-date, expert material relating to the temple precinct. Through videos, you can learn about Karnak's role in ancient Egyptian history, religion, architecture, and archaeology. Each video clip has an...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Qrius: Human Evolution Early Human Diets

For Students 9th - 10th
An archaeologist explains how the bones of early humans can reveal information about their diets. [29:15]
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Qrius: Island Biodiversity Tracking Human Influences

For Students 9th - 10th
How do inhabitants on islands alter the ecosystem over time? An archaeologist will identify specific changes over many years that occurred as a result of human arrival on islands. [29:16]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Levers: Raising the Moai on Easter Island

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, a team of archaeologists and engineers explores different uses of the lever by recreating the engineering feats of the ancient Easter Island peoples. [4:50]

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