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Pbs Teachers: Written in Stone

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A lesson that takes students through the process of examining tombstones as artifacts, identifying information that can be instrumental in investigating a community's past or an individual's genealogy. Students also make gravestone rubbings to help record and synthesize information. Includes an embedded video about the history of writing.

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Concepts
epitaphs, local history, artifacts
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Additional Tags
cemetaries, community artifacts, grave markers, grave sites, graves, gravestones, graveyards, headstones, historical artifacts, history of writing, lesson plans, pbs
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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