[OR_Archaeology] Everyone hop on board the ArcheoBus!!

[Susan White]

Here's a nice newspaper article about teaching elementary students about archaeology--

http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2009-11-24/story/archeobus_brings_archeology_to_the_surface_for_georgia_students

There's some nice photos on the web page, but if you cannot link to the website, I've copied the article below. Happy Turkey Day to all the great OR Arch listserv members, I'm thankful for y'all! Susan Lynn White


ArcheoBus brings archeology to the surface for Georgia students 
Students learn about history, archeology on ArchaeoBus.
By The Times-Union, Jacksonville, GA
Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009
TERRY DICKSON/The Times-Union

HOP ON THE BUS

The ArchaeoBus is an old bookmobile refitted as a rolling exhibit hall.

Glynn County archeology instructor Ellen Provenzano is taking the bus to its stops and teaching the students.

The Society for Georgia Archaeology says the bus helps it in its mission to unite people interested in the archaeology of the state.

BRUNSWICK - Glynn County students are getting an education this week without have to dig for it.

The ArchaeoBus parked in front of Altama Elementary School Monday to give students a quick education on historic artifacts and how things change when they're buried for centuries.

In a hands-on display on classifying artifacts, Kimaree Smith held a dull chunk up toward where the sun would have been had it not been overcast.

Satisfying herself, that no light was getting through - meaning it wasn't glass - she put it on the appropriate pile.

The fourth-graders got to see what would be left of a buried body as they looked through a viewer at a skeleton. They looked through fixed goggles to see what artifact would look like underwater.

It fell to Semia McGriff in another class to separate and mix up the reassembled pieces of broken plates so the exercise wouldn't be too easy for the next group.

And when the next group came through, they eagerly put the pieces of plates back together like round puzzles.

The ArchaeoBus is an old bookmobile refitted as a rolling exhibit hall and will be at Golden Isles Elementary today.

Glynn County's archeology instructor Ellen Provenzano is taking the bus to its stops and teaching the students.

The Society for Georgia Archaeology says the bus helps it in its mission which is to unite all people interested in the archaeology of Georgia.

The society also works actively to preserve, study, and interpret Georgia's human past.

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Susan Lynn White, RPA
Asst. State Archaeologist
Oregon SHPO
725 Summer St NE, Suite C 
Salem, Oregon 97301
503-986-0675 office
503-986-0793 fax
Susan.White at state.or.us
 
Visit our web page at
http://www.oregonheritage.org/OPRD/HCD/ARCH/index.shtml
 
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