1 / 12

Exploring Culture and Identity Through Artifacts

Aubrey McGuire Lauren Morrow Liz Nicoletti. Exploring Culture and Identity Through Artifacts. When you hear the word “artifact”, what do you think of?. Discussion question. Which picture represents an artifact?. http:// www.google.com /images/hl= en&biw =1015&bih=635&gbv=.

shen
Download Presentation

Exploring Culture and Identity Through Artifacts

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Aubrey McGuire Lauren Morrow Liz Nicoletti Exploring Culture and Identity Through Artifacts

  2. When you hear the word “artifact”, what do you think of? Discussion question

  3. Which picture represents an artifact? http://www.google.com/images/hl=en&biw=1015&bih=635&gbv= http://www.google.com/images/dinosaur+bones

  4. “Artifacts represent especially direct entryways into cultural inquiry and criticism for they are often ordinary, familiar, multiple, and integrated into everyday life” (pg. 282). Article definition:

  5. Artifacts are important for children to examine Helps children explore their own knowledge, experience, and attitudes Springboard for more thought and learning Artifacts and children

  6. Looking at cultural objects of others, students become “anthropologists” They find meaning and cultural expression within the artifact Artifacts and children

  7. Share artifacts Why they are important to us “Artifacts provide keys to the values of people and they can be passed on to other generations” (pg. 282). Sharing our artifacts

  8. Please get out your sketchbooks Draw a picture of your own artifact Share the meaning of your picture with your group Artifact activity

  9. Choose one person from each group to share their artifact with the class Why did you draw that artifact? What does the artifact mean to you? Discussion of artifact

  10. Science Math Music Art Discuss how you could incorporate the idea of artifacts within each subject Incorporating artifacts into the classroom

  11. Final thoughts…

  12. Marshall, Julia. Exploring Culture and Identity Through Artifacts. References

More Related