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Title: How to read an artifact Subject: Artifacts as a way to study history Standard Addressed: Date: April 2, 2013 Grade Level: 7th Grade
6.2 Identify examples of social, political, cultural, and economic development in key areas. 6-8.WH.10 Write routinely over extended time frames I can identify that artifacts can give us information about people, places, and societies. (Knowledge) I can use observation and reasoning to make inferences and draw conclusions from artifacts. (Analysis) What is an artifact? What information can we learn from the artifacts of ancient cultures? 1 penny for each student, rulers, paper and pencils (preferably students will add this assignment to their History Reflection Journals) Clues from the Past: Archaeology Lesson Plan taken from The Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago, Illinois. Excavation dig the exposure, processing, and recording of archaeological remains. Site the place where the artifacts are being excavated Speculate guess based on known facts Inference an educated guess Archaeologist those who study the human past through its material remains. Artifact objects made and used by people The civilization web (writing, food, social structures, technology, culture, religion, and government) all parts that make up a society. The goal for this lesson will be to get the students to apply what they already know to think like an archaeologist.
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Reading the objectives with the class. Imagining they are years in the future.
Coins
Examining and writing what they notice on the coins. Sketching both sides and taking measurements (use centimeters to measure).
10 min
Future archaeologists?
All group discussion about what this coin could tell us about this unknown society.
10 min
10 min
Participating in the group discussion, then writing down their individual speculations
Other items
5 min
Thinking about other items the archaeologists could find and writing them down. Minimum is one item but if they finish quickly challenge them to think of others.
Write the instructions: Rest of I can find 10 items in my the house that can give clues to an period archaeologist. Then, have them write the numbers 1- 10. Pre-Assessment: Verbal Raise your hand if you know what (vocabulary word) means?
Homework
Post Assessment: Writing in their History Reflection Journals. To be scored with a checklist Name: Notes on examination of coin Sketches and measurements of coin Speculation about what this coin could tell us about the unknown society Other items the archaeologists could find to help and the function of those objects 10 items Expand: Infer about 1 object on your list X = yes, blank = no Points 5 5 5 5 5 10
Expand for Next Lesson: The next day as a warm-up activity have the students write a paragraph about what the archaeologist might infer about the students based on the artifacts on their list. Make sure they write about why the archaeologist might come to the conclusions that they do with the artifact you choose.
IEP
Modification Directions: Excavation dig the exposure, processing, and recording of archaeological remains. Site the place where the artifacts are being excavated Speculate guess based on known facts Archaeologist those who study the human past through its material remains. Artifact objects made and used by people 1st Look at the penny: What do you notice? Write down everything that you see. Draw the penny (front and back) nd 2 What can this coin tell us (future archaeologists) about the society? 3rd Think of other things that would help the archaeologist learn what the job of the coin was? 4th I can find 5 items in my house that can give clues to an archaeologist