Research and Development - ARCHAEOLOGIST
Big Dig Archaeology
Education Centre in the Rocks, Sydney
Primary
Middle
Secondary
Teacher
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Teacher
Each year there is an
Archaelogical Dig week where school children can get involved.
The Big Dig Archaeology Education Centre
Faces
of Power - Imperial Portraiture on Roman Coins: Nicholson Museum,
University of Sydney
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Teacher
Local Copy: PDF (88 pages)
This is a comprehensive
document with details about the Rulers of Rome!
You would need to make up your own activities for students around
Archaeology or /and
Ancient History.
Connect
3: Shipwrecks, Seaweed, Climate Change & Marine Archaeologists
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Literacy
Cooperative
Learning Activity
1. In groups of 4 - 5 students, you are to "Connect 3"!
Look at the following chart of Connect 3 and
select one row
either taken vertically, horizontally or diagonally to complete 3 tasks.
As a group, you need to decide which is the best 3 tasks for your group to
complete at a high standard.
| Plan an
essay discussing the ethics of raiding shipwrecks Give a couple of dot points for each section |
Create a
short game or activity to explain seagrass and its association with
shipwrecks. Include instructions and an explanation of the game or activity |
Prepare a
slideshow illustrating the career of an Ocean or Marine
Archaeologist What are the similarities and differences to a land based Archaeologist? |
| Draw a short
comic or political cartoon that illustrates the importance of The
2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural
Heritage and, a short explanation of the comic |
Prepare a
short (2) minute talk on the four articles. Include the authors'
qualifications, evaluations, and ascertains. What is your opinion based on these ascertains [only]? |
Create a mind map [with icons, key words, colour, and links] on the four articles and their content |
| Create a
diagram to illustrate the similarities and differences of each
article with each other |
Compile a list of recommendations from the articles and create a Tweet to the PM based on these recommendations | Create a Diorama of a Marine Archaelogist discovering a shipwreck along the Western Australian coast |
Click here to get this Connect 3 in Word doc.
Resources to complete task
2. Read the following articles from The Conversation - suggestion: split up the reading between members of the group.
3. Share with ONE other group your "Connect Three" - preferably a group that hasn't completed the same connect three as your group. What did you learn?
4. Reflection
Which three activities did you choose? Why? Was one activity a more useful one than the other two activities? Why?
Did You Know? |
Optional Extra - 3 February 2022
Has Captain Cook's ship Endeavour been found? Debate rages, but here's what's usually involved in identifying a ship wreck
The Conversation 3 February 2022
As a group, read this article together. What details can you add to your Connect 3 presentation about identifying a ship wreck?
Look at the following video - does this answer any of your doubts/concerns?
Finding Endeavour
https://youtu.be/3QPqxsRYjm4
Write up a list of new questions that you would like answered!
Has Australia [the Australian National Maritime Museum] "jumped the gun" in this announcement? Why? Why not? Provide reasons.
Wreck
Seeker - Game created by the Australian National Maritime Museum
Primary
Middle
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Literacy
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability
Teacher
Teacher Lesson Plan notes (PDF 9 pages)
Subject: History
Time taken: 40 mins for each of the 6 wrecks:
- The Verdoemd (based loosely on the Batavia)
- HMS Pandemonium (based loosely on the HMS Pandora)
- Beaufort Bomber (based loosely on a WW2 Beaufort Bomber)
- The Enterprise (based on HMB Endeavour)
- M28-Sub (based on one of the Japanese Ko-hyoteki class midget subs)
- SS Bermagui (based on the Bega coastal trader steamer)
Wreck Seeker - an online educational game for the classroom
https://youtu.be/boqm4oujmSw
Start Game
https://wreckseeker.sea.museum/game
Students become a Marine Archaeologist, dive to a wreck and create an exhibition about it!
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Literacy Australian
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ICT Capability |
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