Archaeology Activities and Classroom Projects for Teachers (original) (raw)

These are activity and project ideas for kids and teachers to use in your unit study of archaeology. We teach 6th grade, but these activities can be adjusted for any grade. We hope you'll find some ideas you can use.

Mixed Up Pots: Decorate five or six old clay flower pots with paint or magic markets. Put all the pots in a brown paper bag, and gently hit the pots with a hammer. Shake the bag. Remove half the pieces. Using glue, try to put together the pieces into something that "seems" to make sense. Submitted by: Barbara D Martin, California, USA

"Motel of Mysteries": This assignment is based on the book "Motel of Mysteries", which is an hilarious look at completely wrong interpretations of things found in a modern hotel by archaeologists in the future. After reading about 5 pages of the book to my kids, I have them all draw an everyday object of their own, then write a wrong interpretation of it. Makes a great bulletin board, and kids get a good idea of how things can be interpreted incorrectly! Submitted by: Barbara D Martin, California, USA

School yard dig: Setting up your own dig

Transparent Shoebox Dig -Instructions

Create your own dig: Instructions

Doing Archaeology in the Classroom: A Sandbox Dig, but first, teach your students what is legal and illegal about "digs"

Free Archaeology Activity Pack from the Museum of London - I especially like the hairbrush activity

Archaeology ABC Coloring Book - Free Download

A Classroom Activity: Classifying Artifacts in the Classroom

Interactive Online Quiz with Answersfor Kids about Archaeology:Archaeology Q&A Quiz Interactive

Online Game Day: Archaeology - Games and Interactive Learning Sites for Kids - I set this activity to work by creating a scavenger hunt sheet of things for kids to find in the sites listed on their exploration sheet. The kids have tosite the source for each scavenger find for verification.

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Archaeology Activities and Classroom Projects for Teachers (original) (raw)

These are activity and project ideas for kids and teachers to use in your unit study of archaeology. We teach 6th grade, but these activities can be adjusted for any grade. We hope you'll find some ideas you can use.

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