We just started using Story of the World for our history curriculum and the first chapter (actually, it’s chapter 0) talks about what is an historian and what is an archaeologist. We’ve read books and talked about it, but one of the activities it suggests doing is creating a dig site. So we did. It was very small, but I think Ben and Rosemary had a lot of fun. They went out Monday morning to dig while Charlotte took her morning nap.
We used shovels, paint brushes, and toothbrushes to find our artifacts
Rosemary had just discovered the remains of a ceramic mug
Brushing the dirt off the remains of an egg carton. We deduced from this artifact that whoever left this item likely ate eggs. :-)
A pair of old eyeglasses
After collecting all of our artifacts, we bagged our finds then took them into our ‘lab,’ as Rosemary called it, to record our observations.
All six of our artifacts: seed packet, eyeglasses, egg carton, empty soap pump, pencil, and mug fragments.
Next, we plan to do some cave painting, but at the end of the summer we hope to mummify a chicken!
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