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Sharing the Past activity sheet Why are the tools so different from the ones we use today? · Collect and display some fossils or fossil pictures and pose the question "How was the world different then?" Research answers. ·Encourage children to make their own holiday memorabilia collection to display. Year 4 - 6 · Collect life histories (of great grandparents if possible). Write diaries about children's daily life based on knowledge gathered. · Make two time capsules. One a simulated version from the past (teacher collected), another assembled by today's children to be opened in the future. · Study an ancient civilization, e.g. Pompeii, Rome, Greece, Mesopotamia. Produce a play based on some event, perhaps a fiesta day or a religious celebration. · Become familiar with some of the archaeological evidence left on an abandoned living site. Pretend you are digging on your school site one hundred years into the future. Draw a simulated archaeological map. Detail what was found. · Use the Internet to play some simulated archaeological games. The Ontario Museum has an interesting site: http//www.rom.on.ca/digs/munsell/ · Make a time line showing tools or other equipment and how things have changed over time. Predict how they will function in the future or if they will be used at all. · Rubbish bin archaeology. Create a bin shape, each day glue, or pin drawn rubbish onto the bin but cover the previous days rubbish. End by uncovering the week's result and analyse daily trends. Can you do this in reality? Find out who uses rubbish to gather evidence and what can be found out. · What kinds of things do archaeologists find? What rots and what remains? Bury food and less fragile articles well before your study, predict then dig up to prove or disprove theories. · How do things from the past become buried? Make a list: rubbish buried, deliberate (graves animals, people), hiding valuables in war time e.g carvings which decorated Maori buildings, laying 27 Activity Sheet Auckland Museum Te Papa Whakahiku PRE AND POST VISIT ACTIVITIES (Cont.d) foundations, natural disasters (e.g. Titanic), accidental (windblown leaves, volcanic ash etc.) · Study our own version of Pompeii, the Buried Village near Rotorua, which was buried during Tarawera's eruption. Years 7-9 · Organize a visit to a retirement village and interview willing residents about their early lives. Prepare questions beforehand to encourage variety. Survey toys, tools, kitchen equipment, etc compared to today. Display as a museum might. · Study your local area. Use local historians, library records, street names and buildings to gain ideas. Build a 3-D model of the area or a map with overlays to note the changes. · Playing dead. One child lies on the floor surrounded by all the things s/he would want to take to the After-life. Make an outline for the record. Imagine excavating this grave 1000yrs on.*What would decompose and what would be left? *What could archaeologists say about this person's status, job, age, and cause of death? *What could be said about the society in which this person lived, technology, money, literacy, and gender equality? Make a second much depleted outline. · Examine a handbag's contents. *What does it tell you about wealth, age, health, gender and the society of its owner? *If stolen and thrown away what would survive into the next century? Divide into two groups write a report. One on the person now and one if found next century. · Use Digging up the Past by M. Trotter and B. McCulloch to research New Zealand's archaeological discoveries. Each pair could research a site, an artefact or detail some of the evidence used to trace the Polynesian settlement of the Pacific. Or each pair could choose an aspect of discovery e.g. bones in N.Z and what they told us, or tools or moa hunters’ sites, or ornaments which show how Maori lived. · Research an ancient civilisation. What evidence can be used to describe daily life? Is there something you can't find out? Why is this?
activity sheet Auckland Museum Te Papa Whakahiku CLASSROOM ACTIVITY SHEET 1 Layers Layers Fill and rubble Soil with tree evidence Modern garden soil This is a cross-section of an area somewhere in New Zealand. Old tennis court Sharing the Past · What happened recently in level 1? Can you think of any reason why the old tennis court from 1930 was buried? · What can you say about the activity that went on in Level 2? What do you know about what was happening in New Zealand in the early part of the 19th century? · Who were the people who lived in the deepest layer? How do you know? These are some of the artefacts found during an archaeological dig of this site. Decide which layer each one was most likely found in. Where will the Coca Cola can be found? · What will the next 100 years bring? Add another layer to this diagram and sketch in what you think will be discarded and will be preserved for archaeologists in the year 2100 to discover. Glass Coca Cola bottle Kerosene lamp Shells Chamber pot Paua shell Hangi pit Greenstone tiki 1849 stone wall Bone fish hook Metal beer bottle cap Demolished stone wall 1849 rubbish pit Mrs Pott’s iron Stone adze blade Iron kettle Kapeu, greenstone ear pendant Glass bottles with marble sttopper Post-hole with wooden post mould Natural subsoil Fun Ho metal toy car Clay pipe Coca Cola can Modern brick wall Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Dog tooth with drill hole China doll head Activity Sheet 28
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