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Activities

Here you will find links to activities from various archaeological based resources. These activities are taken directly from their source and their intended purpose is to be used in the classroom.

Organization: Getty ArtsEdNet

Description: An activity section where college-age students will learn about the properties of building materials from the earth.

Age group or class level: College Students/Teachers

MATERIAL ANALYSIS–EARTH AS A BUILDING MATERIAL [PDF]

Organization: Getty ArtsEdNet

Description: This activity sheds light onto what conservationists need to consider when attempting to conserve an archaeological site, what the specific problems are and how to structure a response to the problems.

Age group or class level: College students/ Teachers

Physical Strategies-Non Structural Interventions Non Fabric Interventions [PDF]

Organization: Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center

Descrition: A graphical and mathematical activity looking at the comparison between resources a certain environment can sustain, otherwise known as its carrying capacity, over time.

Age group or class level: Grades 6-8

Pattern Detection #1

Organization: Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center

Descrption: An activity looking at the use of large mammals versus small mammals for the original inhabitants of the New World, shown visually on a map.

Age group or class level: Grades 6-8

Pattern Detection #2

Organization: Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center

Description: A mathematical exercise, using Excel spreadsheets, in determining the size, diameter and what was located in earthen mounds found spread throughout the state of Wisconsin.

Age group or class level: Grades 3-12

Mound Math-Excel Exercise [PDF]

Organization: Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center

Description: An activity about how the population dynamics of the New World functioned.

Age group or class level: Middle school age students

Peopling the New World-An Archaeological Exercise in Excel [PDF]

Organization: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Description: An activity workbook for teachers to assist students in grades 3-5 to learn about the Chumash people.

Age group or class level: Grades 3-5

Earth Mobile-Teachers Resource Guide (Pre-Visit Activities)

Organization: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Description: A 64-page activity booklet for teachers which goes through the Earth Mobile lesson plan.

Age group or class level: Grades 3-5

Earth Mobile-Teachers Resource Guide

Organization: Pics4Learning

Description: Students learn about the cultures of ancient civilizations. This is accomplished by having students research an ancient culture and create a news broadcast on how geography affected daily life of the culture.

Age group or class level: Grades 6-10

Ancient Culture News Broadcast [PDF]

Organization: Simon Fraser University (BC) Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Description: An activity about how to do archaeology legally in the classroom and the potential consequences of breaking cultural heritage laws. 

Age group or class level: Grades K-8

Doing Archaeology in the Classroom: A Sandbox Dig