It's a Dirty Job...

...but Sixth Graders have to do it.

Shoebox archaeology, that is!

How do we learn about people, their past, their cultures? What can we find out (or not find out)from the relics they leave behind? What kind of questions do we need to ask to find the answers we're looking for? What do we need to do when our finds are few and far between? What can we conclude if we have little information to go on?

These are the questions the students of Room 503 needed to ask themselves today as they dug through their shoebox sites on their quest for a better understanding of what it means to be an archaeologist.

Time was ticking, and some of the students didn't get through all of the artifacts in their "dig site," while others only had two or three items to uncover and make observations and inferences about. Tonight, the students should be going over and/or writing their conclusions about what they found. Tomorrow we'll share our conclusions as a class and see what we can glean from our experiences.

Thank you to all of the students who worked so hard to get this project prepared over the weekend and to all of you parents who helped them.

Cheers,
Ms. Pitman