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- Archaeobotany
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.6
- Students will use pictures of seeds, an activity sheet, and a graph to identify seven seeds and the conditions in which they grow. They will also infer ancient plant use by interpreting archaeobotanical samples and determine changing plant use by Native North Carolinians by interpreting a graph of seed frequency over time.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 and 8 Science and Social Studies)
- Archaeological soils
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.11
- Students will determine components of a soil sample and evaluate how archaeologists use soils to interpret sites.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)
- Digging up discoveries
- The students will study archaeology, practicing their knowledge of spelling patterns and capitalization and punctuation skills along the way. The students will go to a teacher-created excavation and discover a surprise in a “rock” from the excavation. The students will then write about their experience.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Alyssa Slater.
- A guided journey into the past
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.7
- In their study of archaeological resource conservation, students will use guided imagery to discover and judge an alternative way to enjoy artifacts without removing them from archaeological sites.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Social Studies)
- Pottery traditions
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.5
- Students will learn how Indian people of North Carolina made and used coiled pottery, summarize why archaeologists study pottery, and make and decorate a replica of a North Carolina coiled pot.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- Scientific inquiry
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.8
- In their study of scientific inquiry, students will use an activity sheet to make inferences about what activities go on at different places in school (desk, locker, etc.) and form an hypothesis about how space is used. They will also simulate how archaeologists learn about past people by designing and conducting a research project.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–9 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Shifting coastlines
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.3
- In their study of North Carolina's changing coastline during the Paleoindian and Archaic periods, students will determine the positions of the coastline at different times and decide what types of archaeological information has been lost due to rising sea levels.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Science and Social Studies)
- Stratigraphy and cross-dating
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.3
- Students will use an activity sheet to interpret archaeological strata using the law of superposition and apply cross-dating to determine the age of other artifacts.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)
- Tree-ring dating
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.5
- In their study of dendrochronology, students use activity sheets and a discussion to apply principles of dendrochronology to determine a tree's age and to recognize climatic variation. They will also analyze and experience how archaeologists can sometimes use tree rings to date archaeological evidence and study past climates.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
