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An Exercise in Seriation Dating

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students study the different types of artifacts found that were made by the colonial people. In this archaeology lesson students take part in finding ceramic and charting their results.
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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Family Math

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students play with math. In this early childhood lesson plan, students create drawings of family members to use for math activities including counting, seriating, sorting, grouping, and sequencing.
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Begin with Buttons

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students utilize buttons to explore logical and numerical relationships. They focus on the two basic logical thinking skills, classification and seriation. Each student applies these developing skills to the operations of addition and...
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Relative Dating in Archaeology

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students create a timeline that explains how ancient cultures used artifacts. In this Relative Dating in Archaeology lesson, students examine artifacts and draw conclusions about their origins. Then students analyze antiquated objects or...
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Relative Dating In Archeology

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students generate a time line, interpreting the ways in which past peoples may have used the artifacts at their disposal. Students also develop a poster showing a theoretical stratigraphic deposit, and then analyze the cultural materials...
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Marshmallow Fun Day - math

For Teachers K
Early learners rotate to different classroom centers and participate in six activities based on using marshmallows to review concepts learned. They make: marshmallow sculptures (geometric shapes), the shape of mittens using colored...
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Bulleted Lists: punctuating items in vertical lists

For Students 7th - 10th
What is easier to read: a bulleted list or a block of text? Look at different examples with your class and then go over the style guidelines for vertical lists. 
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Powerful Patterns

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use logical thinking to create, identify, extend and translate patterns. For this pattern lesson, students make patterns with objects, numbers, and shapes. Students extend and translate these patterns in several modalities...
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Sequencing Our Day

For Teachers K
Students focus on translating the real experience of an ordinary day into a representation of it to assist with recall and stimulate expressive language. They compose picture captions to match visual representations of events of the...
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Rainbow Fish: The Copycat Fish Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore the concept of copying one another. In this early childhood lesson plan, students discuss what a copycat is and why people copy one another. Students then discuss the story Rainbow Fish: The Copycat Fish, recording...
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Archaeology Lesson Plans

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Archaeology lesson plans can give students hands on ways to explore the study of ancient cultures.
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Social Studies Lesson Plans With Science Connections

For Teachers 6th - 9th
There are great social studies lesson plans that can help students make historical connections to science.
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Birds of a Feather

For Teachers K
Students investigate birds and complete a variety of bird-themed activities. They read books and observe birds noting their physical characteristics, development and life cycle stages.
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Field Trip!: A Visit to the Grocery Store

For Teachers K
Students discover that foods are organized into groups of similar items by developing vocabulary to enhance verbal discussion i.e., real experiences provide the foundation for thoughtful discussion and critical thinking. They then...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Relative Dating in Archaeology [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Activities for the classroom that teach about stratigraphy and seriation, two methods used in the relative dating of objects in archaeology.
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Jean Piaget Society

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn more about Jean Piaget from this website. The site is dedicated to the study of human knowledge and development.
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Shippensburg University

Shippensburg University: Personality Theories: Jean Piaget

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is an excellent resource on the life and work of the Swiss educational psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980).
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Article
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Oikos.org: Jean Piaget

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"The basic reason for this international attention was the unquestionable fact that Piaget was the founding father of a branch of psychology that tries to unravel the mysteries of the human mind, how it grows and how it comes to know."...

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