# Presentation: 144275

## AHC 10 Minute Movie for Young Audiences

- Brought to you by MMJT productions

## GOALS:

- To give an **understanding **of the past.
- Present a **stewardship** message.
- Explain appropriate **behavior** at archaeological sites.
**AUDIENCE:**
**3****rd**** through 6****th** grade students
- Local and non-local schools
- For use at other locations?

## VISUAL

{Opening scene}
Aerial View of Great Sage Plain

Narrows in on school group walking trail to Escalante Pueblo

{New Scene}     
Teacher reading story from Escalante Curriculum or trail guide

Students meet up with Pueblo children 

- {Opening scene}
- Aerial View of Great Sage Plain
- Narrows in on school group walking trail to Escalante Pueblo
- {New Scene}
- Teacher reading story from Escalante Curriculum or trail guide
- Students meet up with Pueblo children

- AUDIO
- Traditional Music
- Children meet and give introductions
- Students explain they are learning about the site from their teacher.  Pueblo children explain their teachers are their elders.

## VISUAL

After exchange students separate from group and go with Pueblo children to another part of the pueblo where elder tells story.

{New Scene}
Daily Life Images (“Storyteller” painting) 

Paleo-Indian/Archaic hunter, artifacts, native plant gathering, atlatls

  {New Scene}
Agricultural Fields- using tools, show people living in pithouses, artifacts- baskets, ceramics, weaving, use of bow/arrow

- After exchange students separate from group and go with Pueblo children to another part of the pueblo where elder tells story.
- {New Scene}
- Daily Life Images (“Storyteller” painting)
- Paleo-Indian/Archaic hunter, artifacts, native plant gathering, atlatls
-   {New Scene}
- Agricultural Fields- using tools, show people living in pithouses, artifacts- baskets, ceramics, weaving, use of bow/arrow

- AUDIO
- Elder begins the story of his ancestors beginning with Paleo-Indian.
- Elder mentions environmental changes, incorporates native oral stories, migration stories
- Elder mentions the introduction of corn.

## VISUAL

{New Scene}
Show transition from pithouse to using masonry structure storage areas, to living to masonry pueblo

Big Picture: Show plaza area- dogs and turkeys, games, community activities: basket making, weaving on loom, corn grinding. 

Focus in on grandmothers teaching/making pottery to the two Pueblo children (same as narrators) {use pot from main gallery to show connection}

Individual Activities: Bring pot out of fire (kiln), show all uses, food storage, water storage, heirloom items

- {New Scene}
- Show transition from pithouse to using masonry structure storage areas, to living to masonry pueblo
- Big Picture: Show plaza area- dogs and turkeys, games, community activities: basket making, weaving on loom, corn grinding.
- Focus in on grandmothers teaching/making pottery to the two Pueblo children (same as narrators) {use pot from main gallery to show connection}
- Individual Activities: Bring pot out of fire (kiln), show all uses, food storage, water storage, heirloom items

- AUDIO
- Population Growing
- (more people 	   more food)
- Bring children into discussion
- Grandmother explains tradition of pot making
- Young pueblo girl explains, “anytime you see a similar pot or its pieces remember us, when you remember us we become alive again in those pieces.”

## VISUAL

{New Scene}
Dried corn, empty fields, collapsed roofs, etc.

{New Scene} 
Dominguez and Escalante arrive on scene {show portion of buried pot}

Ute guides bring the Spanish back to their camp.  Navajo visitors come to trade. 

{New Scene}
Return to Aerial View showing time-lapse of development: homesteaders, population growth, McPhee reservoir

- {New Scene}
- Dried corn, empty fields, collapsed roofs, etc.
- {New Scene}
- Dominguez and Escalante arrive on scene {show portion of buried pot}
- Ute guides bring the Spanish back to their camp.  Navajo visitors come to trade.
- {New Scene}
- Return to Aerial View showing time-lapse of development: homesteaders, population growth, McPhee reservoir

- AUDIO
- Continue Migrations, “time to move on.”
- Read journal entry passage

## VISUAL

{New Scene}
Return to zoom of class at Escalante Pueblo

Students  try to take piece of the pot with them. Pueblo children cry “no”!!

{New Scene}
Archaeologists excavating pot 

{New Scene} 
Volunteer tour-guide shows school group same pot in exhibit case

{Closing Scene}
View of Pueblo children smiling knowing their stories will live on and being preserved for future generations.

- {New Scene}
- Return to zoom of class at Escalante Pueblo
- Students  try to take piece of the pot with them. Pueblo children cry “no”!!
- {New Scene}
- Archaeologists excavating pot
- {New Scene}
- Volunteer tour-guide shows school group same pot in exhibit case
- {Closing Scene}
- View of Pueblo children smiling knowing their stories will live on and being preserved for future generations.

- AUDIO
- “Help us preserve our culture” Leave artifacts where you find them so our stories can live on and be told.
- Archaeologists are scientists who are qualified to preserve the story and share it with the rest of us.
- Volunteer explains (brief) history of pot (who made it, when) and shares the story with a new school group, and gives preservation message that museums give artifacts a place where everyone can see these pieces of our history.