While carrying out our mission to provide community outreach, we have developed many topical lessons for use across many ages and skill levels. Listed below are some of the lessons we have developed. If you would like to share your own we will include it on the site. For books about archaeology for students, see a comprehensive list at http://www.archaeologyincommunity.com/youth-reading-list/.
Mock Excavations
Students will practice excavation, note-taking skills, and analysis of artifacts and features in stratified soils at a simulated site.
-
Afterschool Archaeology Program
In 2020, the National Science Foundation announced that members from the Public Archaeology Facility (PAF), Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership (TLEL), and the Binghamton University Community Schools (BUCS) at Binghamton University received a two-year grant through NSF’s Advanced Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Pilot & Feasibility Program. The team is implementing an afterschool program for middle school students (Grades 6-8) from underserved rural areas. The team is using archaeology as a mechanism to teach the STEM fields of biology, physics, mathematics, and ecology, all disciplines employed daily by archaeologists.