Students at Olentangy Liberty Middle School (OLMS) took an electronic trip to an archaeology lab at Northern Arizona University on this week. The sixth-grade social studies students used the video-conferencing service Skype to speak with two archaeology graduate students, who showed the students artifacts and answered questions about their career field. Participating in this project supported the ancient civilization benchmarks in the sixth-grade social studies curriculum.
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- Northern Arizona University graduate students use a video-conferecing service to discuss their experiences in the field of archaeology with OLMS students.
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- The graduate students could see a wide view of the OLMS room, but students stood close to the web camera to ask questions so that they could be heard clearly.
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- Many of the OLMS students wanted to know about the oldest artifact the archeaology students had found.
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- Emily Long and Russell Alleen-Willems spent about 3.5 hours video chatting with four groups of OLMS students.
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- Students listened intently as Emily Long described finding part of a statue that was more than 2,000 years old in Cypress.
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- Students enjoyed Russell Alleen-Willems’ description of finding an old pewter flask and tracing it back to its owner.
