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Warm-up 9/12 “Imagine that on the way home from school today, you step in wet concrete and leave a shoe print behind. A thousand years from now, archaeologists (social scientists who study how people lived in the earlier times by examining the remains of what they left behind) uncover this shoe print. What will archaeologists most likely conclude about your life by studying the shoe print you left behind?” (write answer in binder or on device) Homework 9/12: Continue studying vocabulary!
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Archaeologists have estimated that these prints are about three million years old. Refer to the whiteboard to complete the activity for this photo!
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Fossils – Vocabulary Strategy Activity Context Sentence: A cretaceous shellfish fossil found in the chalk around Wilmington is on display at the museum.
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Fossils are the preserved remains of animals, plants, and other organisms from the past (usually in layers of rock)
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Excavation – Vocabulary Strategy Activity Context Sentence: Recent archeological excavations show Mayan women are often buried with turquoise hair combs.
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Excavation excavation is the process of finding archaeological remains. An excavation site or "dig" is a site being studied.
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Archaeology The study of human history through discovery and exploration of artifacts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3- a7nsRM1E8 (Bill Nye the Science Guy) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3- a7nsRM1E8
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