10/6 - Individual Artifacts Due (two per person)
10/8 - Special Presentation - Kansas Archaeology by Steve Elmore
10/9 - Team Mural Due (one per team)
10/9 - Language on already existing artifacts due - one with only your team's language, one a "Rosetta Stone" with the same thing written in both your language and English (you can add it in Latin for extra credit) - one set of two artifacts per team
10/10 - One post on your Ancient History e-Text blog due
10/13 - Summary Paragraphs A (three paragraphs) and F-2 (one paragraph) due
10/13 - Exciting "DIG" Activity!
10/14 - Parents welcome to visit our Museum of Unique Treasures in MS Library
10/16 - Team Report Due (divided by team to work on individually)
10/17 - Archaeology Vocabulary Quiz
10/20 - Special Presentation - Wichita City Archaeologist Sheila Hauser
10/21 - Independent Research Projects due
10/22 - Field Trip to WSU Anthropology Department - Museum, Archaeology Lab, and Bio Lab with Dr. Peer Moore-Jansen
10/27 - Suprise Excavation!
The Eighth Grade Ancient History scholars are beginning their first research project this week.
- Each student will choose a topic relating in some way to archaeology. It can be from any point in history, and relate to any place in the world. This is their chance to investigate something they find personally interesting.
- The students will research and become an expert on this topic.
- Then they will teach a lesson to the class presenting their research.
- They must each create a visual project to help get their information across to their "students." (They will NOT write a report - only a Bibliography of their sources.)
- The research components emphasized during this project are evaluating web sources and proper bibliography formatting and documentation.
- Please ask an eighth grader to show you their Independent Research Project Forms for more information.
