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- Creating your own rock art
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.4
- Students will use regional rock art symbols or their own symbols to cooperatively create a rock art panel. They will also use a replica of a vandalized rock art panel to examine their feelings about rock art vandalism and discuss ways to protect rock art and other archaeological sites.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- Experimental archaeology: Making cordage
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.8
- Students will make cordage and use an activity sheet to experience a technique and skill that ancient Native Americans in North Carolina needed for everyday life. They will also compute the amount of time and materials that might have been required to make cordage and construct a scientific inquiry to study the contents of an archaeological site.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- Mending pottery
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.9
- Students will mend broken pottery to learn what archaeologists learn by mending pottery.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- Pollution plume
- The students will simulate a plume to illustrate point source and non-point source pollution.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)
- By Jennifer Smith.
- Rock art
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.3
- Students will use art materials, drawings, and rock art examples to differentiate between symbol, petroglyph, pictograph, and rock art. They will also interpret rock art to illustrate its importance in the cultural heritage of a people and as a tool for learning about the past.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4, 6, and 8 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- Welcome to the New World
- This lesson provides students an opportunity to read and interpret writings of the late 1500's and to transfer the information provided in the writings into a visual medium as a means of understanding and interpretation. The lesson also provides students practice in persuasive techniques.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Barbara Jean.
