History teacher: Justina Padskočienė
Mazeikai VENTOS progymnasium, Lithuania
TOPIC : Archeologist for a Day
Subject : History
6TH GRADE
Length: 2 lessons
Aims:
- Find out about archeology and tools used
- Learn history of the place throughout centuries
- Learn specific glossary and skills
- Write a letter to the future generations
Impact on students
- Learn specific glossary related to the topic
- Use different devices for learning history
- Find out about a job of archeologist
- Learn to notice details and accuracy
- Study and analyze what’s important nowadays
- Master personal and cognitive skills, booster self- esteem, creativity, patience and analytic thinking.
- Practice speaking skills.
Material and gadgets needed: gloves, different brushes, sand, artefacts, paper, pens, a box, etc.
Lesson 1
In the museum
Planning
The teacher introduces the topic and the aims, explains the tasks and the sequence of activities.
Using modern devices students listen and watch a documentary about the place they live now many centuries ago. They do interactive tasks using smartphones.
Each student is given a box with a hidden artefact from different centuries.
Using dental picks, trowels, brushes, measuring tapes, line levels, storage bags, pens, and pencils students discover artefacts in the sand.
They measure them, write a detailed description of the item, compare with the friend’s artefact.
They try to guess the century and the purpose the artefact was aimed for. Then take a picture of the item.
The 2 nd lesson
Revision and evaluation
Aim
- to introduce artefacts, the process of the work and the history of the times the item was used.
- Write a letter about the items people use nowadays for future generations.
Methods and strategies used :
STEM: to develop observation, creativity, problem solving, experimenting, analysis.
