Students undertake an archaeological dig in the grounds of the school. They use various mathematical techniques to find and record the location of objects. Using this data and careful observation of the objects themselves they attempt to establish the history of the objects they find and how they might have come to be in the location found. Creative writing provides a tool through which they can attempt to articulate possible narratives to explain the connections. Finally, they establish a framework that they can use to categorize the objects, and using this framework they create a little ‘museum’ of the objects they found. 

• Use archaeological methods to gather information

• Measuring, chart creation, and data gathering and analysis skills

• Recognize how categories are used to order and structure the world around us

This unit has a creativity and critical thinking focus:

• Making connections and integrating disciplinary perspectives

• Producing meaningful and original outputs

• Generating and stretching ideas to imagine and appraise alternative outputs

Web and print

• For information on different kinds of rocks and stones and where they came from the following websites can be explored:http://www.nsta.org/publications/news/story.aspx?id=52970

• https://education.usgs.gov/lessons/schoolyard/ RockStories_TeacherGuide.pdf

• https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video /short-film-showcase/a-rocks-fantastic-imaginary-journey-through-    time-and-space

• For information on different kinds of bones, the following websites can be explored:

 http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/community/identification/teeth-bones?fromGateway=true

Other Resources

• Plenty of string and wooden pegs to mark out the area of the dig

• Measuring tape of at least 10 metres

• Paper, pencils, and rulers

• Trowels (hand spades), dustpans and brushes, small plastic bags and labels

Opportunities to adapt, extend, and enrich

• Follow-up activities could strengthen links to geography and history (for example, by studying a historical period in the local area) or mathematics (for example, by looking at how archaeologists use maths in their everyday work)

English Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/12wEO4VZyRvQwSzSuXJOuCiANJkvmK3U6_mtCuf87PvA/edit?usp=sharing

Hindi Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Rt5XrLwmLC2X3lMyIWv4dWsq7sAyUBPMELqoitd_BU/edit?usp=sharing

Gujarati Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-Dv_JO_fwYSjcXBknu5c0V7R5ZmEjhwRmxWP-2j_4UI/edit?usp=sharing 

Kannada Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gugx_McY5itjgEe9x4_4PSXdz-uYg_pWNQXajaykGy8/edit?usp=drive_link