Archaeology Channel

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Resource:

Archaeology Channel

Provider:

Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary:

Age Range: 10-17 (Grades 4-12, with parental supervision). This website has free videos through which you can virtually experience the discovery of artifacts and monuments of civilizations from long ago.

Description:

NOTE: We were only able to review a sampling of the videos at this site. Therefore, AS ALWAYS, parents should preview the material to determine suitability of content for their own children.

When you get to the site you'll see a menu of hundreds of free archived videos including:

The Acropolis (Greece)
The Akha Way (Thailand)
The Anglo-American Project in Pompeii (Italy)
Anthropology Field Notes: Shipwrecks (Worldwide)
Egypt: Gift of the Nile (Egypt)
Gila Cliff Dwellings (New Mexico)
Hopi Fires (Arizona)
Machu Picchu Revealed (Peru)
Ping Yao (China)
A Viking Landscape (Iceland)
-and many, many more!

Click on any one and a new page opens where you can watch the video. There are also additional links to resources for further study (NOTE: not all of them are up to date).

This is really a remarkable resource website. Bookmark it to return whenever you need supplements for your social science curriculum, or just want to use the videos as a springboard to learning more about another culture, place, or civilization.

Contributed by:

C A T E G O R I E S

Orientation:

General

Subjects:

Science

Teaching Methods:

Online Interactive

I N T E N D E D F O R:

Ages:

10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17

Grades:

4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12

F O R M O R E I N F O R M A T I O N

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