Lesson Overview
Students design a mock archaeological site and simulate a survey using punch holes to represent shovel test pits. They then discuss the limitations of this method and explore how geophysics offers a less destructive way to locate and understand buried sites.
Essential Question
How can archaeologists use various survey techniques, like shovel test pits and geophysics, to locate and understand buried archaeological sites while minimizing destruction and maximizing the information they gather about the past?
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Other Instructional Materials or Notes:
4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Materials
• Construction Paper (three sheets per student)
• Markers, crayons, or colored pencils
• Tracing Paper or Tissue Paper (one sheet per student)
• Ruler (one per student)
• Scotch Tape
• Hole Punch or Wooden Skewer (one per student)
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- P-PS4-1. Use mathematical representations to support a claim regarding relationships among the frequency, wavelength, and speed of waves traveling in various media.
- 4.1.CO Compare the interactions among cultural groups as a result of European colonization.
- 6.1.CO Compare the development of social systems among the early river valley civilizations.
- 6.1.CC Analyze changes and continuities that influenced the organization and technological advancements of early and classical world civilizations.
- 8.1.CC Analyze the changes and continuities of the Native Americans' experiences prior to and as a result of settlement and colonization.
- This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into Native American civilizations and cultures prior to European contact and their interactions with Europeans during the period of settlement and colonization, including their efforts to preserve their cultures.
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Lesson Partners: South Carolina Department of Natural Resources