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These are presented with the permission of the authors for personal
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the authors or publishers.
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A selection
of activities from the new book by one of our ASOR Outreach
Education Committee members, available from Incentive Publications,
Nashville, TN. The book is an entire teaching unit with
teacher background information, lesson plans, activities which
introduce archaeological concepts through relation to the students
own lives and then move to examples from the ancient world,
reproducible student pages, and directions for conducting your
own dig simulation. While directed mainly to middle schoolers,
man of the activities can be used with students of all ages. |
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An innovative
interdisciplinary unit on archaeology developed by Art teacher
Stephanie Elkins for her 7th & 8th grade students in Georgia.
Includes directions for a class excavation simulation,
tie-ins to other subject areas for expansion into an interdisciplinary
unit, and a separate lesson for art classes on the uses
of the artist's skills in modern field excavations.
Includes goals and objectives, materials necessary for
the class excavation, assessments, post-excavation follow up
activities and Photo Gallery. Ms. Elkins also serves as
a staff artist on the Madaba Plains Project in Jordan.
[Editor's note: this unit contains a large number of
pages. We advise copying and saving the pages, or printing
them out directly and then making copies as needed for your
class.] |
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An integrated
unit for 6th grade social studies and language arts classes.
Students begin by learning about artifacts, relating artifacts
from their own cultures to archaeological concepts from studying
ancient cultures, and then proceed to learning about Cultural
Universals. After establishing this foundation, students
proceed to "Archaeology Adventure" and create their
own culture. Readings and language arts activities accompany
their study. Leslie Coleman is a teacher at Lake View
School. |
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Activities
selected from a unit which integrates archaeology and math
that has been presented at ASOR teacher workshops.
Contains directions on conducting a mock dig and a set of
math activities that apply to archaeological drawing and
recording. In addition, there is a glossary of terms used
by archaeologists and possible quizzes to use with your students.
Neal Bierling, a member of the ASOR Outreach Committee, has taught
for many years at Ada Christian School in Michigan, been
a team member on digs in the Middle East, heads Phoenix
Data System for which he produces archaeology CDs, and is currently
involved in developing on line excavation programs for schools. |
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