Artifact bag

Today we shared our artifact bags. In the bags each of us chose items to place in the bags that would help teach our lessons. My lesson was based off the globe and direction. The artifacts I chose were a compass, a map with longitude and latitude, and a picture of Christopher Columbus's ships. The objects each held a meaning to the lesson I previously taught to a 5th grade class.

Using artifacts bags help to engage the students in hands on learning. I think that there are many different ways to incorporate the artifact bags into a lesson. One way  I created a lesson based on the artifact bag was to have my students create their own artifact bags based off of learning about Christopher Columbus and Globes. The students will Create a bag based off of one of these topics. The Students will then share their bags with the class or a group of peers. The expectation is that the students should be able to guess what the artifacts are representing and what topic the student chose. Although this is one way I created a lesson based off of Artifact bags there are may other ways Artifact Bags can be made into a lesson.