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Description
Museums are an interesting aspect of anthropology, because there is an overlap in the sub fields. Artifacts are often represented in archaeological museums. Human ancestors and relatives are often part of Natural History museums. There are many current cultures represented in museums.
The Smithsonian Institution is a world renowned resource if you would like to learn more about museums.
Blogs
Click here to access our blog about our weekly lessons at tuscaloosa Magnet School Elementary.
To learn about our activities involving museums, click on the following links:
The Smithsonian Institution is a world renowned resource if you would like to learn more about museums.
Blogs
Click here to access our blog about our weekly lessons at tuscaloosa Magnet School Elementary.
To learn about our activities involving museums, click on the following links:
Lesson Plan
By Will (?)
Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade
Seven Lessons
Previous lesson: Sifting Through the Sands of Time
Materials:
Focus:
Objectives:
Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade
Seven Lessons
Previous lesson: Sifting Through the Sands of Time
Materials:
- Coloring tools: crayons, markers
- White or colored paper with mask drawn on it
- Scissors
- Pipe cleaner or string
- Feathers
- Glue
Focus:
- What is the purpose of museums?
- How do museums and anthropology relate?
Objectives:
- Students will review the four subfields of anthropology
- CLAP: Culture, Linguistics, Archaeology, Physical Anthropology
- Students will review archaeology
- Archaeology: Archaeologists look at artifacts like coins, pottery, and all of the materials in the sand from the activity of the previous lesson.
- Students will review stratigraphy
- Stratigraphy is the position of things in the ground, and they tell anthropologists how old something is compared to something else.
- Students will learn about local museums to our area: Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- For those who aren’t from Tuscaloosa, this would be a great time to talk about your own local museums.
- How do your museums compare to those of the ones listed here?
- The Alabama Museum of Natural History
- On campus at Smith Hall.
- The Paul W. Bryant Museum
- A museum about a former Alabama football coach who was very important to the school.
- Children’s Hands-On Museum
- For those who aren’t from Tuscaloosa, this would be a great time to talk about your own local museums.
- Students will learn about Museums in Brazil, one of the regions we study.
- The National Museum of Brazil
- This is history, science and anthropology museum in Rio de Janeiro.
- The Museum of Tomorrow
- A science museum in Rio de Janeiro
- The National Museum of Brazil
- Students will learn what a museum does
- A museum functions to hold objects of historical, scientific, artistic, and or cultural interests.
- Students will learn about examples of objects that go into museums
- A mummy mask from Egypt in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology
- Skulls at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History
- The one on the left s a human skull, and the one on the right is a chimpanzee skull, and the one in the middle is that of a human ancestor
- This would be an example of physical anthropology.
- The one on the left s a human skull, and the one on the right is a chimpanzee skull, and the one in the middle is that of a human ancestor
- Native American mask from Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver Canada.
- This would be cultural anthropology because it is part of a culture of people that are still alive.
- Artifacts: an object made by humans that have some type of cultural meaning
- Artifacts are some of the main items in a museum.
- Students will make their own masks
- They can talk to their clans and decide fi they want to use cultural symbols in their clan.
- Try to help the students find something that links all their masks together.
- Remember: artifacts show culture through their visual representation, so you want the masks to have meaning.