March 6, 2017- Back in Time with an Artifact/ Ecofact frenzy!

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Homework: practice multiplication facts, math mystery #18 due Friday, will be handed out tomorrow
Fun lunch and Spirit Day Thursday
Science Title page due
Author visit March 15th

What did we do today?

• Today we had a special visitors.  Amy and Alex are archeologists from the Glenbow Ranch Park Foundation.  They showed us that stone was used by many pre-historic people for tools and houses.  
• We had seven centres to visit and a dig site.  One of the them was to re-build Bill the buffalo.  There was a huge foam buffalo and using a poster of the bones, we had to put the bones back into the proper place. There is three bones (phalanges) that make up a buffalo toe. Buffalo also have 7 cervical vertabrae, 13 thoracic and 5 lumbar vertabrae.
• In the pottery station, we had to research the different types of pots.  Then we would try to piece together a Avonlea pot.  It was very hard!
• At the Artifact and Ecofact station, we had to choose whether given items were artifacts, which have been used or made by humans, or an ecofact which has been shaped by nature.
• In the dig site, we got a trowel, two brushes and a dust pan.  We had to dig inside a huge tupperware box to find a number of artifacts.  Once we found an artifact, we had to map, measure and move the item.  There were three possible sites, one was a buffalo kill site, one was a buffalo processing site and the last one was a historical campsite.
• We learned that being an archeologist requires different skills, that they use team work and special tools, and that they need a LOT of patience to do their job.

Questions:
1. We ran out of time.