Digging and Discovery: Wisconsin Archaeology
Student Reader and Teacher's Guide
Diane Young Holliday, Ph.D.
and Bobbie Malone, Ph.D.
How do archaeologists look at the past? What do they learn from the objects they find? What do their discoveries reveal about Wisconsin history? How does this information relate to how we see the past? These are some of the questions that lay behind the creation of the first volume in the New Badger History series, Digging and Discovery: Wisconsin Archaeology.
This 80-page book introduces elementary and middle school readers to Wisconsin peoples—ancient and recent—and explains how examining the bits and pieces they left behind gives us clues as to the way they lived. The book is divided into eight chapters, and begins with a description of Wisconsin's first inhabitants: Paleo-Indians, Archaic Indians, and Woodland Indians. Subsequent chapters take the reader from early Indian cultures to those of the Europeans and Euro-Americans, with discussion of fur trading, lead mining, logging, and farming. The last chapter focuses on stewardship, showing that we can all play a part in taking care of our past.
Kid-friendly in format, with lively and charming original illustrations of badgers-as-archaeologists, the book is packed with drawings, photographs, and informational side bars that expand on concepts introduced in the text.
[Read a Chapter](PDF, 500KB)
[View the Table of Contents](PDF, 77KB)
[View the Index](PDF, 85KB)
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1997 80 pp. 8" x 6 7/8"
26 b/w photos 44 drawings 20 maps
ISBN 0-87020-291-X Paperback $9.95
Special Classroom Price for 20 or more copies: $7.95 each
Teacher's Guide and Student Materials
Digging and Discovery's Teacher's Guide and Student Materials takes concepts introduced in the text several steps further with chapter-by chapter activities that invite students to think like archaeologists as they encounter the cultures and objects that make up our past. These participatory lessons often suggest small-group activities that lead students through a variety of thinking, verbal, and writing skills as they arrive at their own interpretations. Such activities have been designed to stimulate students to reconsider the world around them, just as archaeologists do. The Teacher's Guide contains many student activity sheets that can be photocopied.
[ See Sample Activity] (PDF, 19KB)
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1997 54 pp. 8 ½" x 11"
Student pages with illustrations and maps
ISBN 0-87020-299-5 Paperback $24.95
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