Class #1 - A Picture of the Past

LT: I can utilize artifacts to make inferences about the past

1. Unpack learning target > “artifact”
2. Random objects - incorporate it into a story about yourself or your experience over the summer.
3. Gallery Walk: Where did it come from? How was it used? What inferences can you make or what does it tell us? (Write thoughts on notecatcher)
4. Share findings
5. Knowledge Nugget - “Historians use artifacts to put together a picture of the past”
6. Upcoming project
7. Mr. Shaddox's artifacts













1. Where did it come from?
2. How was it used?
3. What inferences can you make or what does it tell us?
4. What aspect or part of personal history does this represent?
8. Debrief
• Popcorn ideas -> Chart Paper
• What kind of artifacts do you think we can bring from home?

Homework:

1) Bring in a cereal box

2) Bring in three artifacts significant to your personal history (geography, culture, family)

Due Next Tuesday (Sept. 8)