Week 8

This past week has been great. I have been working in the First Colony camp for incoming first and second graders and even got to teach Thursday and Friday. The kids were so much fun to be with, but definitely energy taxing! I only worked with them for five hours each day with another teacher, so I can't imagine a full day by yourself. But overall, it was a ton of fun. The kids were so enthusiastic about everything we were doing and loved being in the museum. 

In camp we taught the kids about excavating, soil layers, and artifacts. We had a great discussion on why archeologists cannot dig up treasure and keep it for themselves to get rich. The campers did a lot with looking at fossils and using the same tools that real archeologists use at excavation sites. The campers also went outside and dug their own mini excavation sites and one of the campers actually found five dollars that he was allowed to keep. The first colony camp also talked about St. Augustine, the Spanish and Native American influence that is in Florida today, and preservation of artifacts. I have absolutely no background in archeology at all so I learned a lot in my research before teaching the camp which was fun. 

Below are pictures of the mini archeology sites that the campers made.