Chapter 6: Helping Students Make Inferences with Artifacts
Links to World Wide Web resources
- An interactive website provided by the National Park Service explaining the use of dendrochronology to date artifacts
http://www.webrangers.us/activities/dendrochronology/
- "Land of the Spirits: Reaching Out via Online Archeology" produced by the Virtual Museum of Canada
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Spirits/English/Dig/digdown.html
- Several real life digs you can follow online, good for high school
http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/ -
- Tour of a Roman Villa
http://www.villa-rustica.de/tour/toure.html
- Interactive Thanksgiving site from Plimoth Plantation
http://www.plimoth.org/learn/MRL/watch
- Virtual tour via panorama shots of the Battle of Gettysburg, organized in order of how it actually occurred
http://www.virtualgettysburg.com/vg/tours/index.html
- Includes a list of various online exhibits (eyewitness accounts, the influenza epidemic, etc.)
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/exhibits-list.html
- Online resources for teachers for teaching archeology hands on
http://www.projectarchaeology.org
- "Archeology for Kids" archeology program created by the National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/archeology/public/kids/kidsThree.htm#
Downloadable instructional materials
- A graphic organizer for analyzing the bas-relief sculptures on the National World War II Memorial