Curated OER
Baga Drum
Students examine a Baga Drum in order to explore the history of the Baga people of West Africa. In this art history lesson plan, students recognize figures used in Baga Drum design that represent aspects of Baga culture. They also design...
Curated OER
Study Guide for the 2009 Doris Conant Lecturer on Women and Culture: Barbara Ehrenreich
Students analyze the teachings of Barbara Ehrenreich about women and culture. In this women and culture lesson, students define "joy" and "collective joy." Students do field research on these topics and write a field report and a letter...
Curated OER
What Can We Learn From the Past?
Students observe items from their past, making inferences and observations about their own culture based on these artifacts. Students then share with the class what they learned about their own culture, giving all students more...
Curated OER
Stratigraphy -- Layers of Time in the Earth
Students are introduced to the process of stratification. Using the internet, they read about the Richard Beene archeological site near San Antonio. Using a map, they color code the different layers present at this site and answer...
Curated OER
Protecting the Past: Give a Hoot, Don't Loot
Students discuss the looting and vandalism of various archeological sites. In pairs, they read and complete a worksheet and review their answers as a class. In groups, they role play a artifact preservation skit and perform it to their...
Curated OER
Teaching About Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean
Sixth graders examine the trade routes in the Mediterranean of the Ancient world. In groups, they view slides of artifacts while answering questions on a worksheet. After watching a video, they discuss how each object was found and...
Curated OER
Ancient Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection at the Semitic Museum, Harvard University
Ninth graders review what they already know about ancient civilizations. Before visiting the museum, they complete a pre-test on Cyprus and how trade is important to the island. During the visit, they travel in small groups to examine...
Curated OER
House Keys: The Architectural Features of Victorian Homes and Buildings
Young scholars analyze Victorian architectural patterns wit regard to materials, doorways, windows, towers, bays, roofs, and decoration. Students discern varying architectural traits by studying Victorian era pictures and drawings and...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Decoding the Past: The Work of Archaeologists
Through this study, students will think like an archaeologist, and move towards a better understanding of our world by taking a look back at civilizations of the past.
Other
Division of Archaeology: Activity Guides
Find lesson plans for elementary and middle school students that include archaelogy activities for sites primarily in Louisiana. Take a look at the life of Archaic period Mound Builders, and find many examples of artifacts.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Intro to Archaeology
A video where archaeologist, Nicholas Toth, discusses and explores the tools, methods, and focus of an archaeologist. [5:00]
PBS
Nova Online: Remote Sensing in Archaeology
This article, a companion piece to a NOVA special called "Lost City of Arabia," explains remote-sensing technologies that are helping archeologists find ancient cities from the air.
Other
South Carolina Etv: Archaeology Channel: Ice Age Humans in South Carolina
An excellent video of the Topper, South Carolina archaeological dig. View the actual methods that the experts in primitive technology and archaeologists use while on a "dig." This particular excavation site holds clues to the theory that...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Relative Dating in Archaeology [Pdf]
Activities for the classroom that teach about stratigraphy and seriation, two methods used in the relative dating of objects in archaeology.
PBS
Pbs: Historic Archaeology at Ashland: Artifacts in a Privy
In this video segment, Dr. Kim McBride discusses the discovery and analysis of the artifacts archaeologists found during an archaeological survey at Ashland, the estate of politician, farmer, and horse breeder Henry Clay in Lexington,...
PBS
Pbs: Georgia Stories: Archaeology
An archaeologist takes us on a dig at Raccoon Ridge near Madison, in Morgan County and uncovers the tiniest artifacts in order to understand how the earliest Georgians lived.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Traces: Historic Archaeology
Excellent lesson plans that challenge students to consider every day uses for artifacts. Site provides an analysis worksheet that will help students consider the importance of artifacts in understanding historical people. Links to sites...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Discoveries in Chinese Archaeology
In this video [4:17) learn about some of the most prolific archeological sites in China, including the burial complex of the First Emperor of China and Sanxingdui. The tomb of China's first emperor who died in 210 BC II; it revealed more...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: If Stones Could Speak
Sixth graders will explore history and will learn that archaeologists, like detectives, work to piece together the past through investigation. Archaeological research provides us with stories of human history that help us understand the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Math in Archaeology: Lesson 4
This lesson shows students that math is part of the study of past civilizations. It is 4 of 5 in the series titled "Math in Archaeology."
Lin and Don Donn
Lin and Don Donn: Archaeology Lessons
This site provides three suggestions for lessons to teach about archeology.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Science Safari: The First People
Emulate the work of archaeologists in South Africa attempting to solve the riddles of human evolution by inferring a person's height from the length of one bone. Identify and communicate present-day rituals through ancient art techniques.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Archeology in the Classroom
Two different leveled lessons allow students to become archeologists as they interpret material remains left behind by ancient people.
PBS
Pbs: Historic Archaeology at Camp Nelson: Shedding Light on Undocumented Lives
This video discusses how the analysis of food remains and personal items provides insight into the lives of the soldiers and the families of the black enlistees who trained during the Civil War at Camp Nelson in Jessamine County,...
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