After one or all of these activities have been completed the students should learn about the archeology of their state or the local area. The links page has the web address of all the state archeology offices. The work of Archeologists, a lesson plan from the Smithsonian Institution. This teaching method can work, but it has the problem of relaying the message that archeology is only about digging and not learning about the past by studying the artifacts. If you choose to do a box dig with your class be sure to talk about what happens to the artifacts after they are recovered.
Archeologists generally spend three hours in the lab for every hour they spend in the field.
We clean and identify the artifacts, then analyze them to determine what they tell us about people in the past. Students should recognize the fact that archeology is not only about digging, but learning about what the digging tells us about history. Links to archeological societies with education web pages. This is an extensive guide to various state and other agencies that publish classroom manuals and activities.