Budding Archaeologists

This week in World History, the 6th graders learned what it's like to be an archaeologist - to discover an artifact, assume nothing about it or the people it came from, and try to deduce what the people who left it were like. Their object? A penny. But that penny was transformed to an object found on an alien planet left by a being we knew nothing about. They did a great job coming up with these ideas:

• They had access to metal
• They had a way to press the metal into a flat circle
• The beings look similar to us
• They had knowledge of architecture
• They had language
• And so much more!

They masterfully stepped out of the idea that this was a penny, and looked at it from a different perspective.