Acton Public Schools

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Acton Public Schools

• Comparative Cultures

• Kimberley Connors-Hughes dig_at_archeducation.org
• www.portaportal.com/arched

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Assessment

• Post assessment
• Nov 08
• Did you do yours?
• Pre Test
• Jan 09
• handout

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Dig Deeper Online

• Trusted site of sites
• www.portaportal.com
• Login arched
• Password dig
• All my lessons
• www.archeducation.org

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Stratigraphy evidence

• Occupational levels
• destruction levels
• deposition of soil
• cultural time
• Finish Stratigraphy lesson plan

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Hazor Gezer
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• Tell Tel Tepe
• Why do people build where they do?
• Sacred space
• Water source
• Break in bulk point
• Crossroads
• Confluences
• Caravanserai

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Stratigraphy Drawing of Jericho
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Caravanserai
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Tulum

• 10th century c.e.
• strategic canoe trade route
• largest Maya settlement on the sea coast
• traded honey for cacao, jade, obsidian, feathers

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Comparative Cultures An Archaeological
Perspective
Kimberley Connors-Hughes dig_at_archeducation.
org www.portaportal.com/arched
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Ancient Civilizations curriculum

• Ancient cultures are not discrete units
• Linking the information
• Context
• Content
• Technology
• Aesthetics
• Hallmarks of culture

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V. Gordon Childe

• Excavation of Skara Brae in Orkney
• The Neolithic village dating back 5,000 years
• Agricultural Revolution Theory

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Childes characteristics of civilizations

• Subsistence
• Surplus of food
• horticulture
• Agriculture
• Settlement patterns
• Civilization living in cities
• Government
• complex social hierarchies and organized,
  institutional governments
• Social stratification
• Hierarchy of society
• Division of labor
• Artisans
• Economic systems
• Market system
• Trade routes

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MCAS

• MCAS Social Studies
• Grade 7
• Year 1 - 2009
• 2008 Test questions

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Neolithic Art

• Artistic expressions developed as people
  required
• permanent dwellings (architecture)
• furniture and utensils (wood crafts and pottery)
• fixed location for gods and goddesses (temples
  and religious objects)
• secure places for the bodies of the deceased
  (tombs, ossuaries and urns)
• Anthropomorphic figurines are often understood as
  fertility and/or worship figures although their
  exact purpose remains unknown. 
• Most found in burial loci.
• Çatalhöyük goddess found in grain bin

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Hallmarks

• social stratification and ranking
• increasing sedentism
• trade or exchange networks presence of
• luxury and exotic goods
• craft specialization
• metallurgy
• control of food
• agriculture or pastoralism
• high population density
• monumental architecture
• writing system
• calendar
• centralized rule and armed military force.

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Flotation Seeds and Pollen
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21st century skills
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Thematic Connections

• Help students make sense of life
• Show an inter-connected curriculum
• Lead students to ask questions
• Initiate investigation
• interdisciplinary focus

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Meaningful learning

• Students must be more than sponges
• Contribute new knowledge
• Synthesis of knowledge
• Reflective perspective
• pod cast
• virtual museum

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Essential Skill Areas from OBL workshop

• Observation perception, critical viewing,
  critical listening, noticing details, remembering
• Description naming, describing, descriptive
  language, describing details, fluency with images
• Inquiry engagement, wondering, asking
  questions, speculating, looking for information
• Analysis pick out main idea and basic facts,
  identify supporting details, contrast, identify
  patterns, relationships and sequences,
• Interpretationmeaning, comprehension,
  recognition of theme, understanding metaphors and
  symbolism
• Inference - recognize and understand sub-text,
  ability to sort relevant from irrelevant
  information, interpretation of data,
• Contextualization notice similarities and
  differences, place in a larger context, sort into
• categories, compare and contrast, cultural
  context
• Opinion / Hypothesis evaluating, making
  predictions based on data, providing evidence,
• articulating and expressing an opinion,
  recognizing and appreciating good work,

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Point of View

• different ways of representing the same data
• differing perspectives on historical events
• different characters points of view in
  literature
• debates and arguments in history/present
• maps (topological, birds eye view, political)
• planimetric view
• Perspective, drawing, optical illusions

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Maps

• Cartography
• Latest archaeology
• Oldest known maps from Catalhoyuk
• Drawings
• Art

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Town Plan of Catalhoyuk MM13 feature

• Excavated in 1961
• Lowest (oldest) layers of the settlement dated
  from c. 8500 to 6500 bce
• families lived in houses for about 100 years
• then fill them in with earth
• build again on top
• network of houses, built next to one another
  with common mud brick walls and no separating
  roads or alleyways
• Residents climbed across the roofs of the other
  houses to reach the entry point in the roof of
  their own house
• Walls of one house covered by map mural for town
  showing erupting volcano

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Nippur
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Madaba Map
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Oldest map of Jerusalem Madaba Mosaic
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NARA Analysis Worksheets

• Map Worksheet PDF
• Download at
• http//www.archives.gov/education/lessons/workshee
  ts/index.html

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Project

• Web 2.2 tool
• social networking sites
• District Wiki or Infopedia
• all towns schools can contribute

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Next PDP

• March 11th (?)
• Ancient World View
• Greece, Rome, China, Israel