Thursday, January 22, 2009
Mystery Cemetery
For those of you who don't know, I teach "Challenge" classes at the school as a volunteer. Ev and the other 5th and 6th graders have been studying Archaeology. Et and the other 3rd and 4th graders have been studying Moon Bases. Today we started the Mystery Cemetery project which is a simulation of an archaeological burial site. The students have to interpret the site and determine who is female, male, royal, adult, etc. and what specific artifacts/characteristics identify each burial. Today was the best class I've had with the students because this project is such an intriguing challenge. Thank you Google and the Archaeological Institute of America! Here are some pictures:
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How cool! I hope you are keeping track of all of the stuff you are doing so I can steal the ideas later.
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