The study of artifacts would focus on a collection of items that tell about a person, place, or event in history. The likely source of data/information would be a museum, antique shop, art museum, or personal collections-i.e., stamps, coins...

You should:

1. Decide who what you will study or what event you will study.

2. Be able to provide an argument about how studying these artifiacts is a part of social studies.

3. Identify artifacts you will use to collect data.

4. Collect data.

5. Analyze the information you have collected.

6. What have you learned from these artifacts?

7. Decide how to present what you have found to our class.

8. Develop presentation with visual of some sort.

9. Present.

Prepare an 1-page overview of your project that includes:

a) a description of your project and what you learned, b) how you could use this approach in teaching elementary social studies, c) how you chose your artifacts, d) how you collected the data, e) how you thought about analyzing the data, and f) what were you able to learn in the analysis of the data and what questions remained.

Artifact Analysis:

http://www.artifacts.org/

http://www.chicagohs.org/history/artifact.html

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/anthro/histarch/gallery/gallery.asp