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Additional Resources

The Think Like an Archaeologist program is available for Providence Public Schools, but lesson plans are available on their website with teachers being encouraged to mimic the program.

The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University has two archaeology-related resources written for teachers and students.  Dig it!: Enabling Teachers to Broaden their Tools for Teaching About Archaeology, and Archaeological Ethics and Laws.  They also offer an asynchronous virtual program This Land is Home.

The Archaeological Institute of America, the Society for American Archaeology, and Project Archaeology all have free lesson plans for teachers to use in the classroom.

The National Parks Service has an Archaeology for Kids site.

Suggested Field Trips and Locations of Note

The Tomaquag Museum offers a broad range of virtual programs and in-person museum tours and programs highlighting Narragansett history and culture from the past to the present.

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