Students rotate around the room in stations discovering artifacts from a sunken Arab dhow.
Students use critical thinking, mapping skills, and picture and text analysis to determine the use, origin and possible destination of the artifact. After completing the artifact discovery stations, students take a time machine to the year 3000 and have to decide which personal artifact of their own will be discovered. Their personal artifact should describe who they are and their culture: interest, race, ethnicity, language, religion, sports, music, etc. Then students will be asked "What effects will your personal artifact have on a culture different than your own?" After completed a modeled and scaffolded google slide of their personal artifacts students share their artifacts in either a circle format where each students shares their own artifact or a musical chairs activity in which students move around reading other students artifacts and they read aloud without naming the student. Resource for artifacts:
Hays, S. (2013). Arabic Trade Networks: Growth and Expansion in the Middle Ages. 2nd ed. Sacramento: California Environmental Protection Agency, pp.62-79. |
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