print email comment close Decoding the Past: The Work of Archaeologists URL: http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/decoding_the_past/ Description: This site provides lesson plans for students in grades K-12 that are designed to "encourage your students to think about how human-made objects and other indicators of human life can enrich our understanding of peoples both past and present." Lesson plans address identifying artifacts, dating soil layers, and using typology to interpret artifacts. Also includes a bibliography and links to resources. From the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies. Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Extra Keywords grarchaeology Library of Congress Subject Headings: Archaeology History -- Study and teaching (Elementary) LII Database Information: Record 10438 created by Sybil Finemel on 10/15/2004 Last modification on 06/10/2007 Published: 10/15/2004   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/10438