Fairview Middle Students Learn to Think Like Archaeologists

Published August 30, 2013

Sixth graders at Fairview Middle School are learning how to channel their inner Indiana Jones. It's part of a fun and engaging project in Tracy Vaughn's social studies class called Thinking Archaeologically.

"With this project the students were given an object and asked to try and identify what the object was," said Vaughn. "Students had to look at the object from an archaeologist's eye and try to figure out what items were made of, how old they were, where they may have come from, and the object's use - just as a real archeologist would do in his or her job."

Each student was then given the task of writing about the various challenges archaeologists may face when trying to figure out these same questions with ancient artifacts.