Teaching History and Science Using What? Incorporating Artifacts into Your Lessons
Bring the world into your classroom! Join Bill, Mark, and Andrea in this lively session where they’ll explore how to use actual artifacts to teach science and history. The artifacts may be represented in the textbook and digital program you are using or you may have an artifact at home from your travels. Material culture adds a dimension to learning that cannot be replaced by the written word. Let us demonstrate how to teach a lesson with artifacts from afar or from your own community — or your own home.
Dr. William Parkinson
Curator of Anthropology
Field Museum, Chicago, IL
National Geographic Society Grantee
Andrea Kingman
Exec. Product Marketing Manager
National Geographic Learning | Cengage
Mark Hoffman
Senior Product Marketing Manager
National Geographic Learning | Cengage
Bring the world into your classroom! Join Bill, Mark and Andrea in this lively session where they’ll explore how to use actual artifacts to teach science and history. The artifacts may be represented in the textbook and digital program you are using or you may have an artifact at home from your travels. Material culture adds a dimension to learning that cannot be replaced by the written word. Let us demonstrate how to teach a lesson with artifacts from afar or from your own community — or your own home.
In this webinar replay, you will leave with these fresh ideas:
- Create a lesson around historical or scientific objects, providing their background and what they show about the world around them from their era;
- Design a written inquiry project to encourage curiosity about things students may never have considered or observed;
- Help students discover science and history in their own community and in their own home by asking each student to bring in an artifact that represents their culture.