PowerPoint from Primary Source program at Boston Children's Museum on Teaching with Artifacts.

1. Teaching with Artifacts:
Using Material Culture to Teach
about Native Americans
November 2, 2013
Boston Children’s Museum

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Objectives
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Consider new ways to effectively utilize artifacts and objects
with students, particularly around Native Cultures.
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Gain deeper understandings of how to incorporate Native
Cultures into your curriculum.
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Hands-on experience with museum collections and other
digital resources to inform your teaching.
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Connect Native Cultures and object-based learning to
Common Core and interdisciplinary topics.

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Agenda
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LOGISTICS: restroom, fridge
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Global Stories
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Integrating Native Cultures into the Curriculum
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Applying What You’ve Learned: An Art Activity
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Collections Tour
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Resources
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Common Core and Interdisciplinary Connections

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Warm-Up: Mystery Object!
1.
Take one minute to silently observe the object on the table.
2.
Pass the object around so that everyone can touch and examine
it.
3.
Brainstorm a list of every possible adjective to describe the
object.
4.
Now list every possible question you have about this object.
5.
Create a narrative or persuasive writing prompt for students to
answer based on this object. Record your prompts.

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Global Stories
Rachel Farkas, Boston Children’s Museum

6. + Integrating Native Cultures into
your Curriculum
Loren Spears, Executive Director,
The Tomaquag Indian Memorial
Museum

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Lunch
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Return by 12:45

8. + Applying What You’ve
Learned: An Art Activity
Rachel Farkas, Boston Children’s Museum

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Breakouts
 Collections Tour
 Rachel
 Group
1
 Using
Artifacts in
the Classroom &
Resources
 Ann Marie
 Group 2

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Common Core and Interdisciplinary
Classroom Connections
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Create a concept map of examples of
Common Core or interdisciplinary
connections you can make to teaching
about Native Cultures or teaching with
Artifacts.

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Common Core and Interdisciplinary
Classroom Connections
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What are the most logical connections?
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What are the challenges to teaching native
cultures or with artifacts? What are the
opportunities?

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Wrap-Up
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Reflections
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Upcoming Events
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Evaluation