Archaeology in the Classroom: Using a Dig Box to Understand the Past

Autor/inn/en	Chisholm, Amelia G.; Leone, Mark P.; Bentley, Brett T.
Titel	Archaeology in the Classroom: Using a Dig Box to Understand the Past
Quelle	In: Social Education, 71 (2007) 5, S.272-277 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7724
Schlagwörter	Leitfaden; Unterricht; Lehrer; Teaching Methods; United States History; African American History; Archaeology; Class Activities; Learning Activities; Context Effect; Maryland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lesson concept; Instruction; Unterrichtsentwurf; Unterrichtsprozess; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Archäologie; Lernaktivität
Abstract	Mock excavations, or "dig boxes," offer students a hands-on opportunity to explore artifacts and their importance and to learn the principles of context and stratigraphic association. The dig box can be central to discussing differences that existed between classes, races, ethnic groups, and the sexes at different times in history. By setting up each excavation to represent a site, the comparisons of status between peoples become evident. For example, one excavation site could represent a plantation house in the South, which would have considerably more wealth and more elaborate artifacts than another site created to represent the slave dwellings on the same estate. The flexibility of this approach allows teachers to create an activity that complements a specific lesson, regardless of the topic, by increasing student understanding of how various peoples lived during a particular period of history. This article describes a method for constructing archaeological dig boxes which was adapted from the work of Maisha Washington, formerly a science coordinator at the Banneker-Douglass Museum, in Maryland's Center for African American History and Culture in Annapolis. (Contains 5 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10