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: Teaching With Historic Places
Description: Tour the world's longest cave, a geological wonder, and assess the ways it has been used and preserved as an historic resource.
Age group or class level: Grades 5-12
Mammoth Cave: Its Explorers, Miners, Archeologists, and Visitors
Organization: Teaching With Historic Places
Description: Learn about Free Frank McWorter and how archeology can help tell the story of the interracial town he founded in the years before the Civil War.
Age group or class level: Grades 5-12
New Philadelphia: A Multiracial Town on the Illinois Frontier
Organization: Teaching With Historic Places
Description: Unearth the remains of colonial America's first fully integrated ironworks, and consider what reconstruction of the site reveals about daily life for some early European settlers.
Age group or class level: Grades 5-12
Saugus Iron Works: Life and Work at an Early American Industrial Site
Organization: Simon Fraser University (BC) Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Description: A click through page with interactive resources, virtual galleries, a children’s page and links to the SFU Museum. Note--This link goes to a click-through interactive website.
Age group or class level: Teachers
Organization: Simon Fraser University (BC) Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Description: Links for younger kids to learn about archaeology and play games via interactive web sites.
Age group or class level: grades K-7
Organizatin: Smithsonian Institution
Description: Museum curator Paul Johnston discusses the field of underwater archaeology and how the study of shipwrecks can add to our understanding of many areas and eras in US history.
Age group or class level: Teachers/Grades 6-8.
History Explorer Podcast: Underwater Archaeology (Podcast)
Organization: Society for American Archaeology
Description: This unit provides educators with background information on archaeology as well as hands-on and interactive activities to introduce the fascinating field of archaeology to students of all ages. Note--This is another click-through interactive website with much information available in a page with clickable lines which direct the individual to desired information.
Age group or class level: K-12
Organization: University of Virginia
Description: The Chaco Research Archive is an online resource providing access to a wealth of information documenting the history of archaeological research in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. The archive includes material from dozens of sites excavated in the Chaco Culture National Historical Park and beyond.
Age group or class level: All grades/class levels