For Teachers

View our selection of interesting and exciting classroom-tested archaeology education resources developed by teachers and authors. Teachers, if you have developed your own lesson plans and activities that you feel would be of interest to us, please email Gloria London, ASOR Outreach Education chair and webmaster.

Also, check the MATRIX (Making Archaeology Teaching Relevant in the XXI Century) site for syllabi geared to undergraduate courses. This web-based resource is sponsored by the Society for American Archaeology and funded by NSF.

November 2005 Teacher's Workshop in Philadelphia

9am to 5pm, Saturday November 19, 2005
University of Pennsylvania Museum
Philadephia, PA

see the complete schedule and more information

NEH-funded Tall al-`Umayri Teachers' Institute (TUTI)

An NEH Summer Institute for Teachers, will take place in the Semitic Museum at Harvard University and at Boston University from June 27 to July 22, 2005. It is designed especially for full time social studies and history teachers (grades 6 - 12) in schools of all types. Teachers of all grades are welcome to apply. The topic will be the archaeology of Jordan and its western neighbors.

The Co-Directors of the project are Gloria London and Donald Sharpes. For application information see the TUTI website. Or contact G. London, 7701 Crest Dr. N.E., Seattle, WA 98115. Tel 206 522-6426. glondon@earthlink.net. Applications are due March 1, 2005.

The Museum of Fine Art in Boston has an excellent review of Egyptian archaeology and history, illustrated with highlights from the museum's excavations along the Nile and its collections. Visit the Explore Ancient Egypt site.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Art of Ancient Egypt web resource and entire book for teachers on the Art of Ancient Egypt in pdf format.

The Smithsonian Institution's list of Selected Readings on Ancient Egypt from the Anthropology Department in the National Museum of Natural History.

The American Museum of Natural History provides teacher's kits for the archaeological site of Petra and archaeological methods as part of its exhibition on "Petra, Lost City of Stone."

A valuable resource for class discussions on fakes and forgeries of archaeological objects, the The Art of the Fake: Egyptian Forgeries from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology provides images of fakes and explains how they were detected by curators.

Links to maps of the Ancient Near East and other areas from the Ancient World Mapping Center.