Teachers' Resources

We're working on content, and new stuff will be up soon!

We promise!

A lesson for mock excavations will soon be posted, as well as one for recreation prehistoric Iroquoian pottery.

This portion of the website has three basic goals:

1) To facilitate the dissemination of information about educational resources related to archaeology and local history to area teachers.
>> Interesting Archaeology Links

2) to provide sample lesson plans for teachers wishing to incorporate archaeology into the classroom or who want to explore lesson plans that cross several curriculum boundaries.

>> Exercises developed through CAP for Teachers: (more soon!)
Artifact Activity
Math in Archaeology
Stratigraphy and the Laws of Superposition!
Mock Excavations .: NEW!! :.

3) to detail how the CAP for Teachers program facilitates fulfillment of NYS Learning Standards in several core curriculum areas.
>> NYS Learning Standards that can be met by using archaeology in the classroom