We were fortunate that she made time to skype with us and share about her job. Thanks to Facebook I discovered one of my college friends is now an archaeologist! She is currently working on an excavation site in California. The play-doh made several more appearances over the week as the kids rediscovered it.
We talked about different ways to make pots and what different shapes might have been used for. To go along with some of our Junior Ranger pages and to make imagining artifacts easier we got out the play-doh and made our own pottery and creations. We enjoyed imagining and documenting what we thought Archaeologists might think about some of the things we use everyday if they found them during a dig in the future. They enjoyed the more challenging math and writing puzzles. We did a couple each day over a couple of weeks. Based on the ages of our kids we needed to complete 10 activities. The downloadable kit includes a parent guide with additional extension activities and book list.
The online badges are designed to be completed at home, and include extra information to help you learn more. There are also several available on the National Parks website which you can earn by mail, covering a variety of topics including Caves, Bats, and Archaeology. Junior Rangers Badges are a favorite project for us.
I guess you could say we dug in! We found more books at the library, earned a Junior Ranger badge, interviewed an Archaeologist, dug up our own excavation site and reassembled our broken artifacts. Our Archaeology Homeschool Unit Study started with reading a book scheduled in our Sonlight Instructor Guide, and evolved to include other activities.
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