How do we know so much about the past? A student-crafted presentation provides viewers with images of artifacts from St. Augustine, Florida that give historians and archaeologists clues into lives already lived.

Concepts

critical thinking, deductive reasoning, pottery, ceramics, clay, crops

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Additional Tags

critical thinking, crops, deductive reasoning, pottery, social structure, artifact analysis, spanish life, material data, social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the presentation as a model, have class groups research a period of St. Augustine history, and then create their own presentation illustrating their findings

Classroom Considerations

• Presumes class members have experience analyzing primary source materials

Pros

• The second slide details the assignment and the targeted grades
• Each slide is accompanied by information text that describes the significance of the items
• Topics addressed include family life, religious life, employment, food, art, and social structure

Cons

• None