Kansas Archaeology MonthIn 2003 Kansas Archeology Week became Kansas Archaeology Month, coordinated by the Professional Archaeologists of Kansas (http://www.ksarchaeo.info). The 2006 theme is Crossroads of the Continent: Early Trade in Kansas. Kansas Anthropological Association volunteer Rose Marie Wallen of Lindsborg developed this lesson plan for primary and middle school teachers to use in teaching students about trade. Activities are keyed to Kansas State Department of Education Curriculum Standards and address visual literacy, communication arts, social studies concepts, and certain mathematical skills. A coloring page, which is appropriate for younger children, serves as a springboard for further activities for middle school students. Vocabulary building, picture search, and drawing inferences from a narrative for an essay are among those activities. Barter games, an entertaining mode of grasping the theme of early trade, help children envision and enact contact activities between Native American groups. Mathematical skills will come into play as students develop their own “monetary” system, assigning relative values to trade objects and working out solutions to trading situations. Due to technical difficulties, it was not posted on the Professional Archaeologists of Kansas website.Lesson planKansas Archeology Week Posters - 1994-2002
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