EDU-KIT - A great educational resource for teachers

An Edu-Kit has been specially designed by Parks Canada's Staff Historian Denise Hansen. She has drawn upon her various experiences in the teaching and archaeology field to design a very resourceful kit loaded with games, activities, and tons of teaching tools on the science of archaeology. She uses Grassy Island the sources for this edu-kit. The kit includes both real artifacts that were found on Grassy Island as well as replicas where necessary. It also has two small videos (around 10-15 minutes each) that give a great overview of what was found, and how they found it. The Edu-kit is available to all schools on a loan basis. For more information on the Edu-Kit, or to reserve the kit for your classroom, please contact Parks Canada, or e-mail Denise Hanson personally at denise_hansen@pch.gc.ca.

How do teacher's benefit by teaching archaeology in the classroom?

• a way to teach critical thinking
• holistic and interdisciplinary
• conducive to small group and cooperation learning
• culturally aware and culturally sensitive
• a basis for understanding multicultural perspectives
• a tool for studying the consequences of human behavior and decision making

How do student's benefit?

• an adventure that provides rich opportunities in all areas of learning
• a means of understanding our common heritage, who we are as human beings, and how we came to be the way we are today
• a mystery-laden experience that requires imagination, creativity, and logic
• a way to develop informed, thoughtful, and responsible behavior toward all cultural resources, which are nonrenewable and irreplaceable.

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