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Discover the past through archaeological evidence from a site in Utah!
In this investigation, students will use geography, history, and archaeology to learn about a pithouse and the Fremont people who lived in them. Examine illustrations, artifacts, and maps of the Fremont Pithouse located in central Utah. Students meet Rick and Rena. Pikyavit, Southern. Paiute tribal members, through reading a biography and oral histories. Then they “uncover” a real archaeological site, classify artifacts, and infer how the geographic area of Utah shaped the pithouse. Explore the use of a pithouse and the cultural correlations today.
- Includes text by and about Southern Paiute tribal members
- Supports Common Core State Standards
- Incorporates authentic data for students to analyze
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Discover the past through archaeological evidence from a historic site in Virginia!
In this investigation, students will use geography, history, and archaeology to learn about a slave cabin and the families who lived in it. Examine illustrations, artifacts, and maps of a slave cabin located at Poplar Forest, one of Thomas Jefferson’s plantations in Virginia. Students meet Gregory Jefferson, whose ancestors live and were enslaved at Poplar Forest, by reading a biography. Then they analyze historic records, “uncover” a real archaeological site, classify artifacts, and infer how the geographic area of Virginia shaped the slave cabin.
Explore the use of a slave cabin and the cultural correlations today.
- Includes text by archaeologists and African American descendants
- Supports Common Core State Standards
- Incorporates authentic data for students to analyze
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Discover the past through archaeological and historical study of a site in California!
Investigating a Wintu Roundhouse incorporates authentic archaeological and historical research to teach students about the use and importance of the Wintu Roundhouse in the past and present lives of Wintu people. In this investigation, students will use geography, history, and archaeology to learn about roundhouses in northern California and the Wintu people who used them. Examine illustrations, artifacts, and maps of a Wintu roundhouse located in Redding, California. Students meet Ted Dawson, a Nor-El Muk Wintu ethnobotanist and educator, by reading a biography. Then they analyze historic records, “uncover” a real archaeological site, classify artifacts, and infer how the geographic area of northern California shaped the roundhouse. Explore the use of a roundhouse and the cultural correlations today.
- Includes text by and about Wintu tribal members
- Supports Common Core State Standards
- Incorporates authentic data for students to analyze
- Supports Common Core State Standards
- Culturally Responsive Curriculum
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Discover the past through authentic evidence from archaeological sites and oral histories.
In this investigation students will use geography, ecology, history, and archaeology to learn about people’s interconnectedness to their landscapes and ecosystems. Examine artifacts, plant and animal remains, and maps of archaeological sites throughout an area of the Great Basin (this volume). Students use maps, data collecting, and analysis to explore how they get their food today and how people got their food in the past. Students design a menu featuring locally available ingredients.
Fulfills requirements in science, social studies, and language arts. The curriculum supports the Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards.
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Discover the past through evidence from a rock art site in Montana!
In this curriculum, students examine the past through rock art created by a sheepherder during his summers in southeastern Montana. Compare rock art as it changes over time from wind and rain erosion and the impact of humans. Explore how archaeologists study rock art to understand past cultures.
Using archaeological inquiry, students observe an authentic rock art panel at Medicine Rocks State Park and make inferences. Cultural background on sheepherding in Montana and an interpretation is provided by Sandy Repplinger, a historic resident of Carter County. In a short research project, students employ primary sources such as authentic archaeological data and oral history to demonstrate their knowledge.
- Includes texts by Dr. Tim Urbaniak, Sabre Moore, and Sandy Repplinger
- Supports Common Core State Standards
- Incorporates authentic data for students to analyze
- Culturally Responsive Curriculum
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Project Archaeology: Investigating Shelter is a supplementary science and social studies curriculum unit for grades 3 through 5. The unit supports Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in literacy and mathematics, especially through modeling the investigation process. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of archaeology, students can seamlessly integrate science (STEM) with literacy, mathematics, social studies, and history.
This consists of nine comprehensive lessons guiding students through the archaeological study of shelter including a toolkit of archaeological and scientific concepts and a final performance of understanding. Now includes a professional development DVD! Watch Project Archaeology lessons in action! See a professional development workshop and a teacher guiding students through archaeological inquiry. Instructors model Understanding by Design. Plus, interviews with teachers and students.
Investigating Shelter teaches six enduring understandings and all learning is guided by essential questions.
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Advent of Agriculture in Mesopotamia! Discover the past through authentic evidence from ancient archaeological sites. Trace the shift from hunting and gathering to the development of agriculture in the ancient world. Examine two real archaeological sites on the upper Euphrates River and uncover the changes in diet as people shifted from foraging to farming. Students will think like archaeologists as they apply the tools of scientific inquiry (observation, inference, evidence, context, stratigraphy, and chronology) to the investigation of nutrition. Surprisingly, the advent of agriculture decreased food diversity with significant consequences for human health even today. Explore contemporary nutrition through student collected data and design a healthy eating plan for the school based on information drawn from the study of the past!
Subjects: social studies (world history, ancient civilizations), science, health enhancement (nutrition), language arts. This is 6th Grade Level, but easily adaptable to elementary and high school.
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Discover the past through evidence from rock art sites!
In this curriculum, students examine the distant past through ancient images that people created and left on stone. Explore how archaeologists study rock art to understand past cultures and learn that rock art was a form of communication before there was written language. Students observe an authentic rock art panel and analyze two interpretation to determine the artist’s message using evidence to support inferences. Students design a web page or smart phone app to help protect rock art. Investigate the Red Army Rock Art Panel in Colorado (this volume) or go to the rock art database on our website to find another investigation closer to your home.
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Discover Roman history through evidence from archaeological sites near Pompeii!
Through archaeology students explore the material remains of Roman culture to learn about geography, history, and art. How can investigating a Roman villa help students understand Roman people and culture? In this curriculum, students examine rooms, coins, and frescoes through an inquiry-based tour of a luxury villa. Explore a day in the life of Roman Emperor Nero! Pompeii and the nearby villas at Oplontis offer a glimpse into the daily life of Romans as well as Rome’s elite.
- Learn the Latin terms for the rooms in a Roman villa by playing a murder mystery game.
- Create a mosaic! Students identify lines of symmetry and solve a real-world problem.
- Close-read Pliny the Younger’s eye-witness accounts of the Mount Vesuvius eruption.
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Discover the past through evidence from an archaeological site at the St. Augustine Light Station in Florida!
In this investigation, students will use geography, history, and archaeology to learn about a Florida light station and the people who lived in it. Examine historic photographs, primary source documents, artifacts, and maps of a light station. Students meet Mrs. Wilma Daniels, the daughter of a lighthouse keeper who grew up at the light station. Then they will “uncover” a real archaeological site, classify artifacts, and infer how the geographic area of Florida shaped light stations. Explore the history of light stations in the United States and engage students in a debate on a current civic dilemma involving archaeology and preservation. This guide incorporates authentic archaeological and historical research paired with oral histories to teach students about the use and importance of the station to lighthouse keepers and their families.
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Discover the past through evidence from an archaeological site in Wyoming!
In this investigation students will use Montana and Wyoming geography, history, and archaeology to learn about a Plains Tipi and the Crow people who lived in them. Examine an archaeological site in Wyoming. Your students will read an oral history from Dr. Joe Medicine Crow, a Crow tribal elder, analyze historic photographs, and “uncover” a real archaeological site. Explore the use of traditional Crow architecture, and the benefits of using indigenous technology to solve problems today. This book incorporates authentic archaeological and historical research paired with oral histories to teach students about the use and importance of the Tipi in the past and present lives of Crow people.
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Discover the past through evidence from an archaeological site in Oregon!
In this investigation students will use geography, history and archaeology to learn about a wickiup and the Northern Paiute people who lived in them. Examine historic photographs, artifacts, and maps of the wickiup located in Oregon. Students meet Minerva Soucie, a Northern Paiute tribal member, through reading a biography and oral histories. Then they “uncover” a real archaeological site, classify artifacts, and infer how the geographic area of Oregon shaped the Wickiup. Explore the use of traditional wickiup architecture today.
- Includes text by and about a Northern Paiute tribal member
- Supports Common Core State Standards
- Incorporates authentic data for students to analyze
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Discover the past through evidence from an archaeological site at Kinglsey Plantation in Florida!
In this investigation students will use geography, history, and archaeology to learn about a Florida cabin and the enslaved people who lived in it. Investigating a Tabby Slave Cabin teaches students about a cabin at Kingsley Plantation in northeastern Florida used by enslaved people in the early 1800s and about the descendants of the people who lived there, through authentic archaeological and historical inquiry. To understand the history of the United States of America it is important to understand the period of time when slavery existed. Slavery was filled with incidents of brutality, punctuated here and there by moments when individuals reached across the barriers of race, gender and class to be decent to each other. Kingsley Plantation offers the opportunity to encounter this doubled-faced reality in the complex lives of Anta Majigeen Ndiaye (Anna Kingsley) and Zephaniah Kingsley.
Examine historic photographs, primary source documents, artifacts, and maps of a Tabby Slave Cabin shelter. Students meet Mrs. Deborah Bartley-Wallace, a descendant of a slave family at Kingsley Plantation, through reading her biography. Then they “uncover” a real archaeological site, classify artifacts, and infer how the geographic area of Florida shaped the slave cabin. Explore the history of slavery in the United States and engage students in a debate on a current civic dilemma involving archaeology and preservation.
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Discover the past through evidence from a historic farmhouse in Montana!
In this investigation, students use geography, history, and archaeology to learn about a historic farmhouse and the Tinsley family who lived there. Examine historic photographs, artifacts, and maps of the Tinsley House located in southwest Montana. Students meet Jackie Thompson, a descendant of the Tinsley family, through reading a biography and oral histories. Then they “uncover” a real archaeological site, classify artifacts, and infer how the geographic area of Montana shaped the historic farmhouse and the life of the Tinsley family. Explore the use of traditional farmhouse architecture today.
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Discover the past through evidence from an archaeological site in Iraq!
This unique guide incorporates authentic archaeological and historical research paired with maps and artifacts to teach students about the people who lived during the Neolithic Revolution. In this investigation students will use geography, history, and archaeology to learn about a Neolithic dwelling and the lives of people in ancient Mesopotamia. Examine primary sources, artifacts, and maps of the Jarmo site to understand the Neolithic Revolution. Students “uncover” a real archaeological site, classify artifacts, and infer how the geographic area of the Middle East shaped the dwellings. Explore the use of traditional mudbrick architecture today with Professor Salma Samar Damluji, an Iraqi architect. Engage students in a debate on a current civic dilemma involving archaeology and preservation.
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Discover the past through evidence from a rock art site in Alabama!
In this curriculum, students examine the distant past through ancient images ancestors of the Chickasaw people created a left on a bluff overlooking the Tennessee River. Create rock art from authentic images using two different hands-on techniques. Explore how archaeologists study rock are to understand past cultures. Using archaeological inquiry, students will observe an authentic rock art panel at Painted Bluff and make inferences. Cultural background on the Chickasaw and an interpretation is provided by LaDonna Brown, a citizen of the Chickasaw tribe. In a short research project, students employ primary sources such as authentic archaeological data and oral history to demonstrate their knowledge.
