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A Sampler for Grades 3 to 12

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Joan Few and KC Smith, editors
Design, computer graphics, and cover art by Sean Kelley
Drawings by Patricia Roadruck Cheney
Photos by KC Smith
Printed by Harvest Printing, Tallahassee, FL 32301
1995, second edition

Publication of this booklet was supported by funds from the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation and National Park Service, Archaeological Assistance Division.


Lesson plans in this booklet were adapted from:

"What Ought to Rot"
McNutt, Nan. Project Archaeology: Saving Traditions. Longmont, Co.: Sopris West, Inc., 1988.

"Teaching Options for Local Culture History"
Smith, Shelley, Jeanne Moe, Kelly Letts, and Danielle Patterson. Intrigue of the Past. Investigating Archaeology. Salt Lake City: Bureau of Land Management, 1990.

"Activities for a Unit of Study"
Bloom, Benjamin. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook One: The Cognitive Domaine. New York: David McKay, 1956.

Butler, Kathleen. Learning and Teaching Style in Theory and Practice. Columbia, Conn.: The Learner's Dimension, 1984.

"Avery Island: Archaeology and Geology in Louisiana"
Nobles, Connie and Nancy Hawkins. For additional information, contact the Division of Archaeology, Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism, P.O. Box 44247, Baton Rouge, LA 70804.

Figures 2 & 3 from:
Gagliano, S.M. An Archaeological Survey of Avery Island. Prepared for Avery Island Inc., 1964.

Petroglyphs
From Intrigue of the Past.

"Archaeology: A Conservation Issue"
Smith, Shelley, Jeanne Moe, Kelly Letts, and Danielle Patterson. Intrigue of the Past. Investigating Archaeology. Salt Lake City: Bureau of Land Management, 1990. Adapted from a lesson created by Ray Swapp, Fairview, Utah.


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