Unit 2: Project Archaeology, Investigating Shelter
Lesson 1: Thinking Like An Archaeologist
Essential question: How are shelters the same and how do they differ? Why do they differ?
Set up our ISN's (Interactive Student Notebooks). What is Archaeology? (Clarifying any misconceptions between archaeology and paleontology and shelter vs. home)
Lesson 2: By Our Houses You Will Know Us
Essential question: What does the study of shelter teach us about people? How important is this way of knowing?
Students will learn that shelter tells about the people who use it. Objects give clues about activities that take place within shelters.
Students will collect information about characteristics of their home and graph their information.
I will assess their knowledge by having students use their data to create a classroom "home".
Unit 1: Utah, Our Home
Lesson 1:
We looked at pictures students brought in. They decided which biome they were in when the photo was taken. Then we read Margaret Wise Brown's book "The Important Book". Finally, students each created a page in our class book modeled after Brown's book "The Important Thing About Utah".
Lesson 2:
Maps of Utah... where we are in the world. Equator, longitude, and latitude will be part of the vocabulary we use.
Lesson 1: Thinking Like An Archaeologist
Essential question: How are shelters the same and how do they differ? Why do they differ?
Set up our ISN's (Interactive Student Notebooks). What is Archaeology? (Clarifying any misconceptions between archaeology and paleontology and shelter vs. home)
Lesson 2: By Our Houses You Will Know Us
Essential question: What does the study of shelter teach us about people? How important is this way of knowing?
Students will learn that shelter tells about the people who use it. Objects give clues about activities that take place within shelters.
Students will collect information about characteristics of their home and graph their information.
I will assess their knowledge by having students use their data to create a classroom "home".
Unit 1: Utah, Our Home
Lesson 1:
We looked at pictures students brought in. They decided which biome they were in when the photo was taken. Then we read Margaret Wise Brown's book "The Important Book". Finally, students each created a page in our class book modeled after Brown's book "The Important Thing About Utah".
Lesson 2:
Maps of Utah... where we are in the world. Equator, longitude, and latitude will be part of the vocabulary we use.