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- Quick study: Archaic Period
- A “cheat sheet” covering basic information about the Archaic Period and its key characteristics.
- Quick study: Paleoindian Period
- A “cheat sheet” covering basic information about the Paleoindian Period and its key characteristics.
- Fundamental concepts: Introduction
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.1
- British archaeologist Stuart Piggott once called archaeology “the science of rubbish.” There is truth to his statement. Archaeologists spend lifetimes investigating the abandoned remains of ancient societies.
- Why is the past important?
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.2
- As an introduction to the study of North Carolina's archaeological heritage, students will use personally owned object to share the importance of their past and connect this importance with reasons why the human past is important.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- Culture everywhere
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.3
- In their study of culture, students will use a chart to show the different ways that cultures meet basic human needs and recognize that archaeologists study how people from past cultures met basic needs by analyzing and interpreting the artifacts and sites that they left behind.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Observation and inference
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.4
- In their study of observation and inference, students will use activity sheets and coins to differentiate between observation and inference through a problem-solving approach, and demonstrate their knowledge by analyzing an archaeological artifact and creating their own observation-inference statements.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- Archaeological context
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.5
- In their study of context, students will use a game and a discussion to demonstrate the importance of artifacts in context for learning about past people.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- Chronology: The time of my life
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.6
- In their study of chronology the students will use personal timelines and an activity sheet to demonstrate the importance of intact information to achieve accuracy, and compare and contrast their timelines with the chronological information contained in a stratified archaeological site.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Classification and attributes
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.7
- In their study of classification and attributes, students will use “doohickey kits” to classify objects based on their attributes, and explain that scientists and specifically archaeologists use classification to help answer research questions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 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)
- It's in the garbage
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.9
- In studying archaeological concepts, students will analyze garbage from different places demonstrate competence in applying the concepts of culture, context, classification, observation and inference, chronology and scientific inquiry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Gridding a site
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.2
- In their study of how to grid a site, students will use a map and the Cartesian coordinate system to establish a grid system over an archaeological site, labeling each grid unit; determine the location of artifacts within each grid unit; and construct a scientific inquiry concerning the location of artifacts on the site.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics 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)
- Artifact classification
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.4
- Students will use pictures of artifacts or objects from a teaching kit to classify artifacts and answer questions about the lifeways of a group of historic Native Americans.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- 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)
- 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)
- Measuring pots
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.7
- Students will use an activity sheet or modern pottery rim sherds to compute circumference from a section of a circle and construct analogies based on their own experience about possible functions of ancient or historic ceramics.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Mathematics 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 8–12 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)
- Looking at an object
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.10
- Students will analyze unfamiliar objects in order to observe the attributes of an object, infer the uses of objects; and discover how archaeologists use objects to learn about the past.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
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