Sand Dollars

In this current events instructional activity, students analyze political cartoons featuring the use of clichés. Students respond to 2 talking point questions.

Called the Eight Wonder of the World by some and the Big Ditch by others, the Panama Canal is indeed an engineering marvel. The long, complicated, and sometimes controversial history of the canal is captured in a presentation loaded with...

Junior archaeologists examine types of artifacts from the Bronze Age on the internet. In collaborative groups, they create a story about a ship from this period and then construct a model of the ocean floor after their ship has sunk....

Oh my! Life after death, but how? Learn all about the ancient Egyptian custom of mummification. Each colorful slide provides a how and why related to burial customs, Egyptian religious beliefs, and the process of mummification. A great...

Young scholars explore the need for money in a society and the artificial value of coin and paper currencies. They design their own coin and paper currency.

Eleventh graders examine why pioneer society needed a uniform medium of exchange -- not so much among themselves, but for use with non-Mormon suppliers and California immigrants.

For this English worksheet, students read "Four Dead in Indian "Diamond" Hunt," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection

Students in a special education classroom examine the various types of molds made by natives. As a class, they brainstorm a list of the types of molds that are made today by different processes. They are given an amount of clay in which...

Students participate in an archaeological excavation to determine how archeologists make inferences about various cultures. They reconstruct the site using layers of drawings. They discuss the kinds of information they learned.

Students read a story about making decisions to spend and save. They fill in missing words in a poem about spending.