Interactive
In this category there are resources which lead directly to either interactive websites, videos or other new interactive interfaces the user(s) can become engaged with archaeological based material.
Organization: National Park Service: Junior Rangers Online
Description: The NPS main site for kids, including interactive games, videos and information about the junior park ranger program.
Age group or class level: Teachers to use for all grades
Organization: Public Broadcasting Station (PBS)
Description: This video segment from IdahoPTV shows an Egyptologist whom discusses the significance of some of the objects found by Howard Carter in the famous 1922 discovert of King Tut's tomb.
Age group or class level: Grades 4-6
Organizaton: Public Broadcating Station (PBS)
Description: Join archaeologist John Worth of the Fernbank Museum of Natural History as he takes you on a dig at Raccoon Ridge near Madison, in Morgan County (Georgia). Worth’s work is closer to the ground as he combs through the dirt, mud, and scum to uncover the tiniest artifacts in order to understand how the earliest Georgians lived.
Age group or class level: Grades 8 on up
Organization: Public Broadcasting Station (PBS)
Description: A video describing an archaeological survey at an Ashland property which was the estate of politician, farmer, and horse breeder Henry Clay in Lexington, Kentucky. Historic archaeologists discovered an old privy there used from 1860 to the 1920s. Filled with thousands of artifacts, it was remarkable for the number and variety of ceramic vessels it produced: more than 900 in all.
Age group or class level: Grades 6-12
Organization: Public Broadcasting Station (PBS)
Description: During the Civil War, Camp Nelson in Jessamine County, Kentucky was the site of an important Union supply depot, training center for U.S. Colored Troops, and refugee camp for families of African-American enlistees. Today the site is a Civil War Heritage Park. Archaeological research has uncovered artifacts left by the soldiers and their families.
Age group or class level: Grades 5-12
Historic Archaeology at Camp Nelson: Shedding Light on Undocumented Lives
Organization: Teaching With Historic Places
Description: Learn how transportation routes affected a local inn, how archaeology revealed the inn's use over time, and how preservation efforts saved the historic site from suburban sprawl.
Age group or class level: Grades 5-12
Organization: Teaching With Historic Places
Description: An interactive lesson guide describing Confederate camps during the Civil War. The lesson could be used in units on the Civil War, military camp sites, or on prisoners of war. It also demonstrates how the historical record and archeological data are used in combination to provide a clearer understanding of events in the past.
Age group or class level: Grades 5-12
“Comfortable Camps?” Archeology of the Confederate Guard Camp at the Florence Stockade
Organization: Teaching With Historic Places
Description: Discover the site of a 16th-century Spanish town that was founded before Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth, and learn how archeology uncovered the story of Santa Elena.
Age group or class level: Grades 5-12
Organization: Teaching With Historic Places
Description: Learn about traditional Hopi culture and farming at Awatovi, a historic pueblo where enduring Hopi traditions and American archeological research reveal much about this important place
Age group or class level: Grades 5-12
Enduring Awatovi: Uncovering Hopi Life and Work on the Mesa
Organization: Teaching With Historic Places
Description: Explore both how tungsten was mined and used at the turn of the 20th century and also how archeologists piece the past together from artifacts and other archaeological evidence.
Age group or class level: Grades 5-12
Johnson Lake Mine: Mining for Tungsten in Nevada’s Snake Range