What are We Learning ??

Last year I briefly got to see an artifact bag with Dr. Smirnova, but today we got to actually work on this activity. I was very excited to see how this activity would turn out. First Dr. Smirnova gave us her own artifact bag and I was able to find out what her artifact bag was through the google photo search and google translate. The artifact that Dr. Smirnova gave us were a Russian Khokhloma Spoon, a PHD of Science Diploma of the USSR, and a Painting of a Birch Tree. My group and I were able to come to the conclusion that all of these things representations of Dr. Smirnova's past in Russia and how proud she is of where she came form.

Once we did Dr. Smirnova's artifact bag we were able to break up individually and create our own artifact bag based on our unit plan. I did my artifact bag as an introduction to my unit plan and here are some of my figurines:


I choose these artifacts to represent the early U.S. history because Thomas Jefferson becomes president during this timeframe and there was a lot of exploration accomplished. In addition I have a Native American figurine because as explorers went to new lands they met a lot of Native American tribes on the way. I really enjoyed this project because it is a super flexible activity. Check out my presentation here.

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