In this lesson students will be organizing and cataloguing cleaned trash items found in the Santa Cruz River to build data inquiry skills and make connections to the ancient civilizations that lived along the river.
- Objectives
- Build student curiosity and understanding by documenting human activity and impacts
- Expand students’ ability to collect and organize unique data
- Expand students’ ability to develop an argument based on evidence
- Build students’ knowledge of, and connection to, the Santa Cruz River
- Grades: 6 to 8
- Time: One week
- Author: J Russell
Arizona Standards Engaged
6.SP1.1: Examine ways that historians and social scientists know about the past.
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