An artifact bag is a bag filled with mystery artifacts. An artifact is an item of cultural or historical interest. An artifact bag can be based around a person, era, place, or topic. It is a great way to introduce or end a lesson. It is interactive, exciting, highly anticipated and an engaging activity for the students. As a conclusion to our class unit on Medieval times, everyone designed their own artifact bag, and each professional group created a power point together. Check out my groups powerpoint about our artifact bags!
These are the slides for my artifact bag!
I chose to include a coin worth 1 shilling, a markets list of goods and prices and a utensil that was sold in the market. I based my lesson off of markets and merchants.
I included a slide about a great book I found that relates to Medieval times. The book Knights and Castles by Will Osborne and Mary Osborne is part of their collection, The Magic Tree House. Knights and Castles is a nonfiction fact tracker that accompanies the fictional book The Knight at Dawn. Jack and Annie return from Medieval Times and they are in search for and discover answers to many of their questions. These questions and answers are illustrated in the nonfiction fact tracker. The book contains up to date information, photos and illustrations. It is overall an exciting adventure filled book that introduces topics of Medieval Times in an exciting way.
Middle Ages for Kids is an interactive website that contains factual reading material on many different topics pertaining to medieval Times. The reading material is grade level appropriate for grades three and up. The website contains online quizzes that provide the correct answer at the end, maps, timelines and games. There is something for everyone!
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