Some real artifacts will be looked at as they are mentioned. A special guessing game is played with objects from a modern living room are on cards. As cards disappear, the harder it is to guess the function of a room. Students then apply ideas to a Ancestral Pueblo room and the effects of pot hunting or looting. Students are presented real artifacts one at a time until they are able to correctly guess the function of an Ancestral Puebloan room from which the artifacts came.
Students play a chronology game about each of their lives.
In the fun they learn how scrambling their life's events messes up their own story. Similarly, disturbing a site can effect the stratigraphy thus destroying important archaeological information. Students then apply their knowledge to the study of stratigraphy in archaeology at the Pithouse exhibit in the main gallery. Students use an activity sheet to interpret archaeological strata in a simulated test trench. They use the law of superposition and apply cross-dating to determine the age of other artifacts.