Archaeology Lesson Plans

1. Digging Deep Digging Deep
Digging Deep Science Students will investigate what archaeologists do and what they're digging up lately. What You Need Access to the Internet or reference books What to Do 1. Ask students to do research online or in reference books to find out more about the basics of archaeology and what archaeologists do. Have each group find answers to various questions about the field. For example, How do archaeologists find sites to study? How do they do their excavations? How do they handle the artifacts they find? Have students take notes on their findings and then share them in a cla...

2. Time Capsule Lesson Plan
...reasons to support the chosen items. Rationale It is important for students to engage in historical reasoning and through inquiry, to reach sound historical interpretations. Materials strips of paper old magazines scissors paper grocery bags glue sticks the book, The Magic School Bus: A book About Archaeology Motivation Strategy Students will be read the book The Magic School Bus: A Book About Archaeology. Procedure 1. Read the book, The Magic School Bus: A Book About Archaeology. to the class. 2. Discuss the book. 3. Divide the class into five groups. 4. Discuss with the class what a time capsule is. 5....

3. Shoe Box Archaeology
Lesson Plan : AELP-ARL0003 Shoe Box Archaeology An Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan Submitted by: Johanna Hadden, UT Endorsed by: These lesson plans are the result of the work of the teachers who have attended the Columbia Education Center's Summer Workshop. CEC is a consortium of teacher from 14 western states dedicated to improving the qua...

4. Methods of Collecting Lesson Plan
...ugh, Steven Saleh Goal To have students become aware of anthropology and the methods of collecting information in order to make conclusions about people and culture as an archaeologist does. Objectives Students will be able to understand a basic concept of anthropology understand a basic concept of archaeology and the archaeologist work in cooperative groups to achieve a goal identify and make assumptions about items found on an "dig" discuss findings within the group report findings and assumptions to the class Materials Bags or boxes containing items or pictures of items that might be found in specific...

5. Archaeological Finds
...dwide articles Education Partners ? More from Microsoft Contact Us at school ? View all virtual classroom tours ? View all tutorials ? Microsoft newsletters for educators ? ISTE National Educational Technology Standards for Students Lesson plan In this activity, students will explore the science of archaeology and how it contributes to our understanding of humanity. On This Page Lesson plan information Lesson plan information Teacher guide Teacher guide Student activity Student activity Ways to extend the student activity Ways to extend the student activity (for older students) (for older students) Lesson...

6. Cuahtemoc's Aztec Kingdom
...LinkExchange Member Free Home Pages at GeoCities Intro Great Cities Social Structure Religion Conquest Sounds Send your questions and comments to Matt Dramowicz Welcome to Cuahtemoc's Aztec Kingdom - this site is here in order that you may learn more about the Aztec people as well as the fields of archaeology and anthropology. I will be updating this site as often as i can with new material, links and other goodies. Thank you for visiting and enjoy! You are visitor number since June 8th, 1997 Best experienced with Microsoft Internet Explorer Click here to start. setstats 1

7. grinco's Archaeology: Images from South Africa
SA Flag Archaeology - the past speaking to the future Archaeology Photo gallery TubeAdded Recently Humour Links Afrikaans Writing and Recipes Archive Other sites Fractals Work in progress Update Notification The Official Thulamela page Welcome to this corner of CyberSpace. Thank you in advance for your effort and the t...

8. Indiana State Edition: Adventures in Time and Place Grade 4, Chapter 3: Write a News Story
...ntures in Time and Place Grade 4 book Write a News Story Connection to Indiana State Edition: Adventures in Time and Place Grade 4 Unit 2: Early Indiana Chapter 3: Lesson 1: The Early Indians Web Link Description Native American Days at Angel Mounds State Historic Site were part of Indiana's annual Archaeology Week activities. Students can learn more about this historic Indiana place at Angel Mounds State Historic Site. Invite students to see photos of flint blades at Some Points I've Made and to see pictures and descriptions of the technique at a flintknapping site from Italy. Student Objectives to see p...

9. Utah Archaeology
Utah Archaeology 3rd & 4th Grades Created by &emdash; Anne Crowther & Julia Greene Jay Monson, course instructor, USU Completed as part of the requirements for El Ed 4050, Fall Semester, 1999. Significance of Utah Archaeology Studying the past cultures of those who made areas of Utah their home, exploring the artifa...

10. Sig Proj - Deyab - PreSERVING America's Past With the Objects of Our History
...y challenging a Lead Teacher, he highway project in American history." As students complete a is certified in virtual tour of artifacts excavated from their city's secondary English neighborhoods, they visualize how Native American and colonial and Moderate and peoples lived. They visit the Big Dig Archaeology Lab and meet Intensive Special an urban archeologist who eagerly accepts their offer to help Education. John's out. During weekly lab sessions, these students learn to extensive portfolio perform tasks related to the preservation of objects. They includes a Master of examine recently excavated artif...