Dig This! Archaeology
Recommended for Grades: 3, 4, 5, 6
What do you get when you cross history with CSI? Archaeology! Students will explore an archaeologist’s tool box, practice excavation techniques, and complete a garbage excavation of their own to piece together the past. Can you dig it?
Iowa Core | Pre-visit Materials | Vocabulary | Post-visit Activity | Resources
Iowa Core Essential Concepts
- Reading: Read for a variety of purposes and across content areas.
- Reading: Use a variety of strategies and skills to comprehend and interpret fiction.
- Reading: Use a variety of strategies to develop and expand reading vocabulary.
- Listening: Listen for information and understanding
- Listening: Listen for interpretation, analysis, and evaluation
- Behavioral Sciences: Understand all people have individual traits.
- Behavioral Sciences: Understand the relationship of the individual to the components of society and culture
- Geography: Understand how geographic and human characteristics create culture and define regions
- History: Understand individuals and groups within a society my promote change of the status quo
Pre-visit Materials
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Vocabulary
Archaeologist
Paleontologist
Stratigraphy
Cardinal Directions
Compass
Trowel
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Anthropologist
Post-visit Activities
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Suggested Resources
Office of the State Archaeologist (check out their Field Opportunities!)
Archaeological Institute of America’s lesson plans for simulated excavations
Arctic “Excavation” Game online
Hunt the Ancestory from BBC-History Adventure Game
Archaeology Sudoku
Recommended reading:
Jodie’s Hanukkah Dig by Anna Levine
Archaeologists Dig for Clues by Kate Duke
The Magic School Bus Shows And Tells: A Book About Archaeology by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degan
I Can Be an Archaeologist by Robert B. Pickering
(For teachers) Hands-On Archaeology: Real-Life Activities for Kids by John R. White
